Juan Carlos Garcia Peláez

I have taken the lead in driving various high-impact projects and managing the operations team. My extensive expertise in cloud native technologies, DevOps, and multi-cloud environments enables me to effectively guide the team in delivering innovative solutions.

My project experience includes:

- Migrating an in-house IoT solution to Tencent Cloud in China

- Implementing Keycloak on AWS in production mode and devising a disaster recovery plan

- Transitioning applications from AWS VMs to Azure Kubernetes using Istio as a service mesh

- Assessing the migration of Hexagon Smart Cloud to Kubernetes

- Designing a performance enhancement project for solar panels on Google Cloud using BigQuery, PubSub, and Cloud Functions

- Configuring RabbitMQ in a production Kubernetes cluster with Helm Operator and Keycloak for authentication

In my role, I have demonstrated proficiency in a wide range of tools and platforms:

- Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Tencent

- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and Crossplane

- CI Tools: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and GitLab

- CD Tool: ArgoCD

- Kubernetes Management: Helm

- Service Mesh: Istio with Kiali UI

- Monitoring: Prometheus and Grafana

- Logging: Grafana Loki

- Identity Management: Keycloak

- Policy Management: Kyverno

As an operations team leader, I am committed to fostering a collaborative environment that encourages continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

As a DevOps Architect with a focus on GCP Cloud and Kubernetes, I have played a crucial role in the development and management of several projects, including Edison (Clinical Analysis), Darwin, and Magellan. My responsibilities encompass a wide range of tasks, from cloud architecture to application platform management and monitoring, as well as fostering collaboration through code reviews and documentation.

Key responsibilities:

- DevOps and cloud architecture for Edison, Darwin, and Magellan projects

- Designing cloud solutions on GCP and implementing cloud-native technologies

- Overseeing the entire application platform, including monitoring and management

- Reviewing pull requests from team members and providing constructive feedback

- Preparing documentation for infrastructure in collaboration with the validation team

Technologies and tools:

- Google Cloud management using Terraform

- Node.js for GCP Cloud Functions development

- Golang for Kubernetes Operator programming

- GCP services: GKE, Cloud Functions, VPC, BigQuery, GCS, Pub/Sub, Secrets, Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL)

- Custom development for enhanced backups in GCP (Secrets, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL)

- Jenkins for CI and ArgoCD for CD

- Helm for Kubernetes management and Istio for Service Mesh (with Kiali UI)

- Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, and Jaeger for tracing

- Keycloak for identity management and Spring Boot for Java development

- Kyverno for policy management and Flagger for progressive deployment

- Knative administration (eventing with Pub/Sub and Cloud Events)

- Kubernetes Operator development using Go

Trabajando como arquitecto DevOps para la DGSIES (Dirección General de Sistemas de Información y Equipamientos Sanitarios).

Responsable de la modernización y automatización de los procedimientos, realizando el diseño y las implementaciones.

- Definición del conjunto de herramientas

- Instalación y administración de Kubernetes "Vanilla" con Kubespray

- Instalación y administración de Jenkins en K8S usando charts de Helm

- Instalación de Nexus en K8S usando Helm charts

- Instalación de Sonarqube en K8S usando Helm charts

- Instalación de Gitlab en K8S usando Helm charts

- Estandarización de las pipelines de Jenkins utilizando bibliotecas compartidas, ampliando el framework MPL