DANIEL AMARÁN

Belgium · +32 466-459-700 · daniel.gomez.amaran@gmail.com

Electrical, electronic, and telecommunication engineering as a profession. SysAdmin, DevOps, SRE, Cloud, and Platform Engineer as occupations. In my free time, Web Developer, IT technical blog writer, game developer, game tester, and passionate full gamer. Lover of Linux and cybersecurity.

Experience

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Proximus, Brussels, Belgium

• Salesforce CI/CD System Development: As a dedicated Jenkins Pipelines specialist, I excel in developing and administering Salesforce CI/CD systems. The CI/CD pipeline was meticulously crafted from scratch, focusing on seamless integration and deployment. Additionally, I have strong experience in SonarQube because we implemented a stage in the pipeline for vulnerability scans based on the Apex class format and the code coverage as well.

• Migration and Tools Expertise: Demonstrated hands-on expertise with tools like the ant migration tool, sfdx-cli, and Git. Led a significant migration from the ant migration tool to sfdx for Salesforce source code management, enhancing our development workflow.

• Scripting Proficiency: With a strong foundation in Groovy and shell scripting, I create scripts that are optimized for performance and reliability, significantly improving our automation processes.

• Linux Migration and Automation: Expert in handling Linux migrations, especially notable was automating certificate processes on IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) clusters.

• Jenkins System Migration and Updates: Successfully migrated Jenkins from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 to RHEL 8 in a side-by-side manner, ensuring zero downtime. Regularly updated packages within Jenkins, including the latest versions of Jenkins itself, Node.js, npm, etc., following best security practices.

• Certificate Automation Project: Initiated and executed an automation project for the renewal of certificates using pkitool, reducing manual intervention and enhancing security compliance.

Nov 2022 - Present

Sr. Cloud Engineer consultant

Alter Solutions Benelux, Brussels, Belgium

November 2022 - Present

Sr. AWS/DevOps Engineer

Iatek, Toronto, Canada

• As Sr. DevOps Engineer in AWS who developed from scratch the CI/CD pipeline as code of the process of building, pushing, and pulling of the Docker image of SSH service using Jenkins to run containers as Ubuntu server to Capture the Flag and Hackathon competition. Code of the Dockerfile to run automatically a Ubuntu container from an Ubuntu image. Cloud Architect at AWS. EC2 instances are managed by Terraform as IaC. Docker as container technology to deploy Jenkins. Docker-compose to run Jenkins. Shell scripting developer. Architect of CTF web application running over the stack: Angular as frontend, Java Springboot as backend, MySQL as DB, and shell scripts to orchestrate the containers. Technical Product Owner of the developer team of the CTF web application.

July 2022 - May 2023

Information Technology Tutor

Toronto School of Management [TSoM], Toronto, Canada

Instructor in computer networks, operating systems, python programming, databases, and cybersecurity.

Octuber 2022 - February 2023

Sr. Cloud Engineer

Goblant, Santiago, Chile

• Tech Lead Cloud Engineer at NDC Team. My role is to provide the Architecture background and design to NDC resources API and UI Portal services. Also, as technical lead of NDC’s infrastructure and API model in ApiGee.

• Sr. DevSecOps/Cloud Engineer at Latam Airlines e-BusinessXP at NDC Product. My role is to provide the technical background to the NDC Developers Team as DevSecOps on GCP. Also as an architect into our API Restful model in ApiGee and Kubernetes Administrator.

• Sr. DevSecOps/Cloud Security Engineer at security cloud team at Latam Airlines ebiz. My role is to give the architectural background on kubernetes clusters, scan and testing of images with possible vulnerabilities. Also set the Bot Manager rules in our CDN and build and configure security policies in our API Management. Monitorize and alert the Security and SRE team to edge border layers. As Cloud Security Engineer my role was the architectural background on Kubernetes clusters in GKE and scan and testing of images with possible vulnerabilities. Coding, testing, and deploying of WAF module using Terraform to deploy the resources in Cloud Armor and protect the border zone of our loadbalancer layers and the traffic that came from our CDN and also from our API management. Configuring dashboards and alerts in Bot Manager Premium for our border website. Participating actively in our security issues and incidents, especially bots and DDoS attacks, solving with SRE and postmortem methodology.

• Sr. DevOps at product development teams, at booking, airshopping, orders, orders payment, bags, ancillaries, changes, upgrades, airport ancillaries and others flows in web application Latam Airlines. My role is to give the CD/CI methodology and frameworks to achieve success and delivery.

• Sr. Cloud Engineer at Cloud native Infrastructure team I’m responsible for code, build, deploy and testing of our IaC resources and modules using Terraform like memorystore, redis, CloudSQL, pub/sub, Cloud Storage, bigquery, Cloud Functions and GKE clusters. Also maintain GitOps and service mesh tools, like Istio and ArgoCD.

• Sr. SRE Engineer at SRE team. Responsible for code, build, deploy and testing the monitoring and alerting tools: Dynatrace Tool, Stackdriver, Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk on call and Analyze monitoring in ApiGee.

August 2020 - November 2022

Web developer/Product Owner

Freelancer

• Setup Cpanel VPS. Moodle developer. Web hosting developer. WordPress Developer. CSS3, HTML5, XML, PHP, and JavaScript. Manage the life cycle of DevOps tools to dev and ops. Manage the code and test templates to deploy infrastructure as code in GCP and AWS using Terraform. Manage the building, testing, and deploying of pipelines as code, understanding the CI/CD necessity using several tools, especially Jenkins.

January 2019 - September 2021

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Giant Monkey Robot, Santiago, Chile

• Worked as Sr. DevOps Engineer on one monthly project providing support of CI/CD and infrastructure in QA and Live environment of the Video Game SpellFire. Troubleshooting on Kubernetes clusters and deployment of Live Game Server. Architect on GCP and AWS. Also setting the Live Game Server in Ubuntu Server OS, which was deployed in EC2 using Terraform and Ansible to install and configure the packages. Monitor and alters settings of the Live Game Server into Cloudwatch, setting alters using SNS, like CPU, Memory, I/O, etc. Setting monitor inside the GKE cluster on Dynatrace inside the Production environment and Stackdriver for the QA environment.

August 2020 - August 2020

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Ripley Chile, Santiago, Chile

• Worked as SysOps and Architect on AWS providing support to developer teams on deploying infrastructure and pipeline. Administrator on Terraform Cloud as infrastructure as code. Setting new services and thresholds in CloudWatch for our observability strategy as SRE. OpenVPN Administrator of our Corporate services. IBM Cloud and WebSphere Application Server Administrator. SRE in Cyberday shifting to delivery support for incidents and requirements in the Production environment to the Development teams of Ripley Retail. I worked rotating shifts as SRE in Ripley Retail's cyber days during the pandemic, providing support to the production environment and development teams. And handling the different security attacks towards our site, using Cloudflare as the main border defense layer, such as WAF.

March 2020 - August 2020

System Engineer/DevOps Engineer

LATAM Airlines, Santiago, Chile

• System Administrator (Linux), predominantly CentOS. Construction and maintenance of tools for monitoring. Support to development teams in pre productive and productive environments. Administration of Cloud servers. Experience supporting large, Enterprise customers in an Operations environment.

• Continuous improvement and administration of digital systems and tools. Project management tools administration: Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket.

• Administrator of the Marathon, Mesos and Consul Framework, PaaS infrastructure, which uses docker microservices architecture.

• Experience working with Docker Swarm, Docker Compose and Kubernetes. Citrix MPX loadbalancer administrator and Control Luna Portal Akamai CDN. Architect in Google Cloud Platform and IBM Cloud. Tool management and automation configuration on the infrastructure: Terraform and chef.

• DevOps Engineer at Developer-Support Squad, support infrastructure and platform of Developments. Administration, configuration and support of services Load Balancer / Proxy: HAproxy, Nginx. Experience developing and supporting applications in NodeJS. Administration and configuration of pipelines with Jenkins tool. Script developer in Python, JavaScript, Ruby and Bash.

February 2018 - March 2020


QA Analyst

IIA, Santiago, Chile

• Quality Assurance of our new web application that intends to inventory our data center equipment. Use Kanban methodology to achieve get all information of bugs and new features.

February 2017 - February 2018


Assistant university professor

USACH, Santiago, Chile

Fiber Optic Professor at USACH, DIE (Department of Electrical Engineering) In 2016 I was part of the faculty of the DIE (Department of Electrical Engineering) at USACH, as a full professor of chair in Fiber Optics, as well as a laboratory professor teaching SM, MM fiber measurement activities through Power Meter, measurements fiber using OTDR and SDH equipment management for high-speed networks. Operation of OptiX OSN 8800 equipment for OTN, WDM networks.

Professor of the Electronic Design course at the University of Santiago de Chile (USACH), Department of Electrical Engineering (DIE). Units of the subject:

1) Design and analysis of circuits using Operational Amplifiers.

2) Timers, analysis and design using CI 555. PWM (Pulse Width Modulation)

3) Active Filters. Design and analysis.

Laboratory professor in Electronic Design. Design of circuits taught in units 1, 2 and 3.

As investigator on research project in the development of prototype VLC for communication through light in the GETIC laboratory (Technology Management and Communications) at USACH DIE lab.

April 2017 - Dicember 2017


Sr. NOC Engineer

IIA, Santiago, Chile

• Remote tasks execution on client devices, accessing servers, installing and configuration of applications and services like HTTPS/HTTP, FTP, SSH, FileSystems, VPN, Proxy Reverse and DNS services implementation on Linux servers. Deploying of web servers application that store and sort the datacenter temperature of devices and halls.

• OSPF protocol configuration on router Cisco 2901. Troubleshooting at physical level, data link layer, and network to transport layer. Troubleshooting in application layer for supporting compute team.

• Configuration of VLAN on switch Cisco Catalyst 3750. Datacenter rack-in and rack-out equipment: HP blade servers, HP 3par servers, Supermicro and IBM servers. Structured cabling using TIA-942 standard. Configuring iLO on HP DL Proliant G7, G8 and G8 servers. RAM upgrade on HP and Supermicro servers.

• Management of Netvault Backup System. Management of IPSwitch WhatsUP monitoring on Windows Server. Administration of monitoring system based on Cacti software.

Dicember 2015 - February 2018


Junior Electrical Engineer

Chesta Ingeniera S.A. Santiago, Chile

• Designer of Electrical Systems and Automatic Control.

• Project, electrical assembly and control of rescue cage.

• Project, electrical assembly and control of electric locomotive using GE-RX3i PLC

June 2015 - Dicember 2015


System Administrator

Army, Cuba

• Technical Expertise: With a strong technical background in computer building and repair, I am adept at maintaining, updating, and upgrading laboratory computers in both hardware and software aspects.

• Software Management: Responsible for patching antivirus versions and troubleshooting as well as debugging hardware and software issues across computer departments. Proficient in resolving complex issues in environments running Windows XP and Windows 7.

• Network Device Management: Skilled in accessing network devices for debugging and testing network issues. Experienced in configuring and administering various services, servers, and devices, ensuring optimal network performance.

• Web Development and Services Deployment: Configured and deployed XAMPP services, contributing to server management and local hosting solutions. Demonstrated capabilities as an HTML and PHP webmaster, developing and maintaining intranet websites.

• Electronics and Linux Proficiency: Possess expertise in electronics, complementing my IT skills with a deep understanding of electronic components and systems. Additionally, proficient in Linux, managing and administering Linux-based systems and contributing to a diverse technological environment.

January 2010 - Dicember 2014

Education

TSoM, Toronto, Canada

Diploma in Cybersecurity Specialist
May 2022 - Apr 2023


USACH, Santiago, Chile

Electrical Engineer with a major in electronics and telecommunications
September 2015 - February 2018

CUJAE, Habana, Cuba

Telecommunications and electronics Engineer
September 2010 - February 2014

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Workflow
  • Always SysAdmin
  • I breathe DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, Cloud, and IT in whatever environment
  • Scripting Man
  • Cross Browser Testing & Debugging
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Agile Development & Scrum
  • Github & Gitlab & Bitbucket as SCM tools
  • Jenkins as CI/CD
  • Terraform as IaC
  • Shell script & python as automation tasks
  • GCP, AWS, IBM Cloud and Azure as Cloud Platforms
  • ApiGee as API Management
  • Akamai & Cloudflare as CDN
  • Docker as container technology
  • Kubernetes as container orchestration
  • Chef & Ansible as configuration management tool

Interests

I love Play video games all time possible on all consoles and PC.

I always desire to watch with my wife amazing animes and good short series about science fiction, monsters, superheroes, villains, and all geek stuff that you can't even imagine.

I love listening to music and playing it to like rock, and blues and doing jam sessions with my guitar.

I enjoy so much cook and eating as well.

Always learning from all in my around.