About

About

Paulo Guevara, M.S.

DevOps Engineer | Cloud Architect | Automation Enthusiast
📍 Location: [Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México]
📧 paulo.guevara@gmail.com
📞 +52 669 1460634
💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/pauloguevara
💻 GitHub: github.com/pauloguevarac

👨‍💻 Professional Summary

Highly skilled DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure. Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Proven track record in reducing deployment times, automating processes, and improving system resiliency for mission-critical applications. Strong advocate for collaboration across development and operations teams.

🛠️ Skills

DevOps & Cloud Tools

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, CloudFormation), Google Cloud (GCP), DigitalOcean
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
  • CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Ansible
  • Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Newrelic, CloudWatch
  • Version Control: Git (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
  • Scripting & Automation: Python, Bash, YAML

Soft Skills

  • Team CollaborationProblem SolvingAgile MethodologiesCommunication

💼 Professional Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer

Rentalika – Mexico (remote)
(05/2024 – Present)

  • Created a secure VPC architecture with both public and private subnets to optimize network security and resource management.
  • Designed and implemented highly available Kubernetes clusters on AWS ECS.
  • Automated deployment pipelines with Jenkins and Terraform, improving deployment frequency.
  • Implemented subnet segmentation and route table configurations to control traffic flow, thereby reducing the attack surface and ensuring compliance with best practices in cloud security.
  • Established to host sensitive resources, ensuring they remain isolated from direct internet access. Utilized NAT Gateway for outbound internet connectivity, maintaining high security while allowing necessary updates and communications.
  • Optimized cloud costs by 20% through right-sizing EC2 instances and using Spot Instances.
  • Monitored and troubleshooted system health using UptimeRobot, achieving 99.9% uptime.
  • Monitoring services and push notifications directly to my phone of autoscaling Cloudwatch, Lambda and Pushover.

DevOps Engineer (Consultant)

HyphaMetrics – (remote)
(10/2019 – 04/2024)

  • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines for multiple projects using GitLab CI/CD, reducing manual intervention by 80%.
  • Automated configuration management using Ansible, cutting down provisioning time by 50%.
  • Deployed serverless applications using AWS Lambda and API Gateway, improving performance and scalability.
  • Integrated log aggregation and visualization using the ELK stack, streamlining troubleshooting processes.
  • Ensured security compliance by implementing IAM policies, VPC configurations, and cloud monitoring.

DevOps Engineer

Citio – Mexico City (remote)
(10/2019 – 04/2024)

DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure:

  • Lead DevOps initiatives for cloud infrastructure and CI/CD processes on AWS.
  • Monitor production activities and analyze implemented solutions to enhance billing statements.
  • Facilitate scrum planning sessions and manage backlog planning.
  • Design solutions for issues or features requested by the product development team.
  • Automate workflows and pipelines for staging and production environments.
  • Developed a comprehensive Python 3 solution for battery stations to handle various scenarios during user battery exchanges.

Achievements

  • Successfully launched battery stations that facilitate user battery exchanges in under one minute from the start of user interaction, managing over 50 potential failure scenarios with a 97.4% success rate in transactions.
  • Created a remote live monitoring dashboard for all battery stations, displaying system status, current software version, temperature readings, and enabling remote support operations such as rebooting and opening station doors for maintenance.
  • Implemented a fast setup for new stations, including automatic VPN connections to mitigate connectivity failures.
  • Properly integrated CAN-BUS for hardware interaction.
  • Achieved 100% uptime for AWS cloud production services since launch.
  • Applied best practices for production environments, including semantic versioning, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and version control.
  • Enabled push notifications and email alerts to multiple devices for downtime and autoscaling events, while measuring the duration of downtime incidents.

Devops & Developer

Kichink – Mexico City (remote)
(10/2016 – 10/2019)

  • Managed Linux and Windows servers across on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Configured and maintained load balancers, firewalls, and DNS for high-traffic applications.
  • Performed backups and disaster recovery planning for critical systems.
  • Migrated on-premises infrastructure to AWS, reducing hardware costs by 25%.

🎓 Education

  • Master in Information Technology Management
    ITESM – Online (2014)
    ID - 9754271

  • B.S. in Information Technologies
    ITESM – Mazalán, Sinaloa (2006)
    ID - 5117526

🏆 Certifications

🛠️ Notable Projects

Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Automation

  • Automated multi-cloud infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Pulumi, enabling seamless deployments across AWS and Azure for a multinational client.

Kubernetes Cluster Setup

  • Designed and deployed a self-healing Kubernetes cluster with auto-scaling for a high-traffic SaaS application, handling over 1 million daily users with zero downtime.

Centralized Logging System

  • Built a centralized logging and monitoring system using the ELK stack, improving log search and incident response time by 50%.

📈 Key Achievements

  • Reduced deployment times by 40% through CI/CD pipeline automation.
  • Migrated 50+ legacy applications to cloud-based microservices within 12 months.
  • Achieved 99.9% uptime for mission-critical systems through proactive monitoring and optimization.

🌟 Interests

  • Cloud-native technologies and serverless computing.
  • Tech blogging.
  • IoT for home and life automation.

🔗 References

Available upon request.