Santi Agüero
SRE and DevOps · Argentina
Experience
Zype
Oct 2021 –
Present
SRE and DevOps
- Implemented the Google SRE culture and practices across teams, after 6 months, 10 microservices started to improve by around 20% in terms of latency and availability.
- Orchestrated a Varnish caching layer handling 1M requests/minute for video streaming using AWS Elemental.
- Worked as a Data Engineer to improve the Data Pipeline implemented in GCP BigQuery. Costs were reduced by 50% leveraging DBT and the BigQuery Flex Slot cost model.
- Worked as a Security Engineer, to address major points to achieve SOC 2 compliance.
YouTube / Medium
May 2020 –
Present
Technical Channel and Blog
- Youtube channel and blog with nerdy things like Vim, DevOps, and SRE well received by the public.
DevGurus
Jul 2020 –
Oct 2021
Senior DevOps
- Worked as a Senior DevOps for customers like Walmart and Falabella.
- Led infrastructure scalable designs, to handle events like Black Fridays; from the ground up, using AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare; Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio, and Vault.
- Worked in pairs with developers, fostering a DevOps culture plus helping and learning with them in projects that involved Node.js, React, Fastify, Next.js; Cypress, and k6 for performance testing.
McAfee
May 2018 –
Jun 2020
DevOps
- Worked as a DevOps in a cloud-based security product, in charge of detecting threats in real-time, from the telemetry data sent by thousands of devices. CI/CD was implemented in Teamcity.
- Led the process, documentation, and implementation for porting the product into AWS gov-cloud region, as a requisite for closing a deal with the US government (FedRAMP compliance).
McAfee
Apr 2017 –
Apr 2018
Software Engineer
- Java developer in main components for the McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange product.
- Led and implemented the product installer for Linux using RPM.
- Led and implemented PostgreSQL Primary/Secondary model for High Availability.
- Built a performance framework solution with Prometheus, StatsD, Grafana, and JMeter.
Intel Corporation
Feb 2011 –
Feb 2017
Software Engineer
- Python and C++ developer in main components for the Intel Update Manager product, reaching millions of users, as it was pre-installed as part of the OEM process with HP, Dell, and others.
- Led and implemented the product installer for Windows using WiX.
Intel Corporation
Jan 2013 –
Dec 2013
Technical Marketing Engineer
- Gave training in Mexico and Colombia for strategic Intel innovations, both development in Android with Intel-based processors and development in Windows 8 for Intel ultrabooks.
Universidad UTN
Jan 2012 –
Dec 2012
System Design Teacher
- Taught students for the leading career subject, software and system design.
Skills
Cloud & Infrastructure:
AWS (Certified Solutions Architect), GCP, Azure, Cloudflare
Orchestration & Containers:
Kubernetes (Certified CKAD), Docker, Helm, Istio, Vagrant
IaC & Configuration:
Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Vault, Packer
CI/CD & DevOps:
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, TeamCity, Bitbucket, GitOps
Programming & Scripting:
Python, Go, Java, C++, Bash, PowerShell, NodeJS
Observability & Performance:
Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Zabbix, k6, JMeter
Databases & Caching:
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, InfluxDB, Varnish
Security & Compliance:
SOC 2, Threat Modelling, 12-factor app
Methodologies:
Agile, Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, API Design
Education
Bachelor's degree — System Engineer
Languages
Spanish (Native)
English (Professional)