About Me
Hi, my name’s Julio and I’m a Tech Lead and a Staff Site Reliability Engineer. I have a solid background in both Systems Engineering and Software Engineering, specially using Golang. I’m always focused on learning and improving while helping others to achieve their own goals.
I am most skilled in: Teams leading, Kubernetes and Golang
Experience
The company that deliver honest financial products that improve lives
Continue with the tech lead responsibilities. Synchronize with the rest of Tech Leads of the company and integrate the effort from the Spanish and North America SRE members.
Integrate the team into a new Affirm’s observability and incident management, and improve the company processes to reduce the MTTM and MTTR.
The company that deliver honest financial products that improve lives
As the tech lead of the team, create a new planning and review process, specially defined to suit into a multi-regional team with an important gap difference (US-Spain).
Implement a more efficient work management with Jira, centralized in knowledge sharing and clear projects statuses.
Migrate from AWS ECS to EKS all the environments for the company, without disruption.
The company that deliver honest financial products that improve lives
After the acquisition of Returnly by Affirm, expanded the team to 5 new individual contributors, mentoring and onboarding them.
Improve the security at the edge by implementing Cloudflare for the company, as the leader and main developer for the project. Reduced the attack surface and improved the reliability of the different services offered.
Migrate all the infrastructure as code from CloudFront to Terraform.
The platform for brands that want better returns
Architect, develop and maintain the company’s infrastructure.
Create an adaptable, cost-efficient multi-environment solution so engineers have an isolated playground to test their changes.
Main developer for the SRE team, creating a cli Golang tool to speed up the software development processes, such as deploy, interact with the infrastructure, etc.
Migration for the log tool to a managed solution.
Mentor and onboarder for three new individual contributors in the team.
Spotahome is a mid to long-term online booking platform for home rentals
Infrastructure architect, mentor for good practices and new technologies.
Designer and developer of internal applications used to speed-up and facilitate continuous integration and continuous delivery of the applications.
Designer and developer of Kubernetes Operators used to extend the default Kubernetes usage. eg https://github.com/spotahome/redis-operator
Solera is a global leader in data and software services that strives to transform every touchpoint of the vehicle lifecycle into a connected digital experience
We help people to understand technology, we inspire them to use it and develop it
DevOps analyst working with Docker, SaltStack, Vagrant, Chef and Ansible.
Designing and providing web-oriented systems for high volume of visitors.
Designing and developing high availability webs such as stores, blogs, etc. with Docker and Kubernetes.
Designing and executing stress tests.
Analyzing web developments for optimizing and fixing errors.
Automatizing tasks for software deployments.
E-Comm Group
DevOps Engineer
December 2011 - August 2014
Mobility solutions, e-commerce, mobile marketing and mobile platforms.
Designing web-oriented systems.
Analyzing traffic for users routing.
Maintaining and upgrading physical servers.
Mounting and maintaining internal network.
Responsibilities included internal support, troubleshooting and trainer.
Development of payment platform monitoring and alerting.
Education
Technical University of Madrid
Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering
2008 - 2015
The Technical University of Madrid's ETSI Informática is Madrid's longest standing and most highly reputed higher education institution offering a degree in informatics engineering.
During my studies on the ETSIINF-UPM, I did not only developed my technical knowledge, I also participated on many students associations suchs as CitFI and BEST (Board of European Students of Technology).
My degree final project can be found here.
A Little More About Me
I’m not only a passionate about technology, I also love and enjoy:
- Learning languages
- Sewing
- Cats
- DIY