About Me

Cloud Engineer specializing in building secure, scalable and cost-optimized AWS-based cloud solutions that drive measurable business impact. Demonstrated success in reducing operational costs, implementing infrastructure automation, CI/CD optimization and building comprehensive observability solutions that enhance security and compliance.

Excellent analytical, systems-thinking and problem-solving skills
Highly motivated and curious professional with a natural ability to learn and adapt quickly
Comfortable working independently and as part of a collaborative team

I thrive in environments that value curiosity, continuous learning and knowledge sharing, where motivated and forward-thinking people build solutions that make a meaningful impact.

Work Experience

Cloud Engineer

Caylent August 2025 - Present
  • Building secure, highly available, scalable and cost-optimized cloud infrastructure on AWS

Cloud Engineer

AstroPay April 2023 - August 2025
  • Built secure, highly available, scalable and cost-optimized cloud infrastructure on AWS
  • Developed and maintained Terraform modules to standardize and manage infrastructure
  • Built, optimized, and supported CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows, improving deployment speed and reliability
  • Implemented and maintained monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure system health, performance and reliability

Cloud Engineer

Accenture January 2022 – April 2023
  • Managed Linux servers
  • Managed cloud-based services in AWS
  • Ensured system stability and performance through monitoring and alert resolutions with Nagios and CloudWatch

Core Technical Skills

AWS Logo

AWS

Cloud infrastructure, services and best practices

Advanced
Linux Logo

Linux

System administration, scripting and automation

Intermediate
ELK Stack Logo

ELK Stack

Logging, monitoring and data analysis

Advanced
Git Logo

Git

Version control and collaboration workflows

Advanced
Terraform Logo

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code and automation

Advanced
GitHub Actions Logo

GitHub Actions

CI/CD pipelines, automation workflows and DevOps practices

Advanced

Language Skills

English

Full professional proficiency

C1

Spanish

Native proficiency

Native

Certifications

Cloud Projects

Mix of personal and professional projects

AWS Cloud Resume Challenge

AWS Cloud Resume Challenge

Built this resume website as part of the Cloud Resume Challenge (AWS edition), a full-stack project using AWS services, Terraform, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and serverless architecture. The site is hosted on S3 behind CloudFront and Route 53, secured with SSL certificate managed by AWS Certificate Manager. It includes a live visitor counter backed by Lambda and DynamoDB

Terraform CI/CD AWS Serverless
IAM-based Authentication for Amazon Aurora

IAM-based Authentication for Amazon Aurora

Designed and implemented a secure, scalable and auditable authentication mechanism for production databases using IAM and SSO, replacing MySQL native password-based authentication to meet audit requirements

Amazon Aurora IAM SSO Security Compliance
EC2 Access with SSM Session Manager

EC2 Access with SSM Session Manager

Implemented a secure and federated access mechanism for EC2 instances using AWS SSM Session Manager integrated with IAM Identity Center (SSO). Developed custom SSM documents to tailor session behavior and logging, and defined fine-grained IAM policies with resource tagging and condition keys to enforce least privilege.

AWS SSM EC2 Security IAM
End-to-End Observability on AWS with Terraform

End-to-End Observability on AWS with Terraform

Built an end-to-end monitoring and alerting solution using custom Terraform modules for EC2, EKS and AWS API activity with ADOT, Amazon-managed Prometheus and Grafana, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudWatch and SNS

Monitoring Terraform Networking AWS
Company-wide SIEM with ELK & AWS

Company-wide SIEM with ELK & AWS

Built a company-wide SIEM solution using the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), integrating AWS services, identity providers, security platforms and other third-party tools to enable centralized logging, end-to-end traceability and compliance with audit requirements.

Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana SIEM Security Compliance AWS
ELK Stack Performance & Cost Optimization

ELK Stack Performance & Cost Optimization

Built Logstash pipelines and fine-tuned index settings —including sharding and field mappings— to optimize indexing and search performance. Customized Elasticsearch Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) policies across environments to improve log and metric retention strategies, reducing storage costs and saving the company over $150,000 annually.

ELK Stack Performance Cost Optimization ILM