Saul Salazar

81-2502-9287

Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

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EXPERIENCE


Sr. DevOps Engineer / SRE & Team Lead

GBM.com Brokerage House

2021 - Present

  • Working to handle an Hybrid Cloud environment with microservices.
  • Best practices like Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, Automation, Least Privilege.
  • Technologies: AWS Cloud, Docker, Shell/Bash, Serverless Framework, Microsoft .NET.
  • AWS Services: CloudFormation, EC2, Route53, IAM, Lambdas, CodeBuild, CodePipeline.
  • Skills: Mentor, Communication, Cross Collaboration, Patience, Problem Solving, Empathy.

Sr. DevOps Engineer / SRE & Team Lead

Clip.mx Fintech

2021 - Present

  • Working with the payments transactions team and VISA team to handle & fix critical P1 projects.
  • PCI DSS, AMEX, VISA, MasterCard, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, Automation, Least Privilege.
  • Technologies: AWS Cloud, Docker, Shell/Bash, Python, Java, MySQL, RabbitMQ, LDAP.
  • AWS Services: CloudFormation, ECS, EC2, Route53, IAM, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, SAM, ECR, Lambdas, CodeBuild, CodePipeline.
  • Skills: Mentor, Communication, Cross Collaboration, Patience, Problem Solving, Empathy.

Sr. DevOps Engineer / SRE & Team Lead

Chad Systems

2020 - 2021

  • Architect, implement, evaluate and improve AWS Cloud based solutions.
  • Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitLab CI, Nodejs, Prometheus, MongoDB, MySQL, Gradle/Maven, Git, Vagrant, VirtualBox, JIRA.
  • Developed a REST APIs generator with Security and Testing: JWT, RBAC, etc.
  • Developed an ECommerce Checkout app, integrated Stripe for Payments.
  • Automated an Insurance process and created a chatbot for MetLife Mexico.

Sr. DevOps Engineer / SRE & Team Lead

Southwest Airlines

2019 - 2020

  • Responsible for Continuous Integration & Delivery of 300+ customer teams.
  • Lead a team of 5 devs working on Kubernetes, OpenShift, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible.
  • Developed an analytics system to gather metrics from multiple DevOps tools across 300+ servers (like Jenkins, BitBucket, SonarQube, Nexus).
  • Migration & Mentoring legacy teams about the new practices and how to apply them to their workflow via video calls and documentation guides.
  • Effective communication with our team, customer teams and customer stakeholders.

Sr. Software Engineer & Team Lead

Softtek

2015 - 2020

  • Architect, implement, evaluate and improve AWS Cloud based infrastructure.
  • Improved the SDLC process and migrated teams to DevOps/Agile/Lean practices.
  • Lead a team of 7-12 developers working on Node.js, JavaScript, PHP and Java.
  • Develop & Maintain over 15+ backend systems, webapps, mobile apps and international enterprise portals like Softtek.Cloud, Socializer or Integrity
  • Developed a framework to build new projects and cross-platform email templates.

Fullstack Software Teacher

Softtek

2017 - 2020

  • 2-3 week workshops for coworkers about Node.js, Automation, Docker and DevOps.
  • First teacher of the code academy Codellege for Engineering undergraduates.
  • Created classes about Frontend and Backend with code examples and exercises.

Web Developer & Hosting SysAdmin

USA Startups & Interclan

2011 - 2015

  • Creation of landing pages corporate websites (PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JS).
  • Maintenance of Linux servers (Debian & RedHat) on a private data center.
  • Managed cloud infrastructure using bare-metal servers and VMware Virtualization