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Experience

Oct 2025 - Present
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
NTT Data Mexico
Senior Site Reliability Engineer and IT Ops engineer supporting Resideo.
  • Support to over 1000+ Windows and Linux servers supporting multiple backend platforms. This includes patching, configuration, backup and migrations.
  • Support to RabbitMQ (CloudAMQP) migrations that support IoT devices
  • Support to Mobile Apps in both App Store and Play Store
  • Creation and configuration of Azure Virtual Machines via Terraform.
  • Azure Services management and configuration via Cloud Shell and Terraform. This includes Cloud Extended Services, Virtual Machines, Service Fabric Clusters, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Data Hubs, IoT Hubs, Recovery Service Vaults, Blob Storage, App Gateways, Load Balancers.
  • Maintenance, support and configuration of on-premise and VMware servers in multiple vcenters and data centers in multiple locations.
  • Backup services with Netbackup of multiple on-prem servers worldwide to Media Servers and S3-compatible backends like Azure Blob Storage.
  • Monitoring and support for virtual machines using App Dynamics, Splunk, ELK and Azure Log Analytics.
Jun 2025 - Oct 2025
DevOps Engineer
Intel Corporation, Software & AI Division
  • Yellow Software Security Belt Certification.
  • Product Security Expert for Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes.
  • Automated multiple processes using Ansible and Github Actions to provision more than 100+ development and validation systems using HyperVisors for multiple hardware and software development teams.
  • Trusted in monitoring of more than 200+ systems using Grafana and Prometheus for system's health.
  • Created multiple new runbooks and document an old repository in the process of being moved and updated for the new GitOps Infrastructure.
  • Cross-functional collaboration with peers from multiple teams to provide everyday software support in the development and validation systems.
Aug 2022 - Jun 2025
AI Software Development Engineer
Intel Corporation
  • Support building and configuration of remote servers to support development of PyTorch features
  • Part of a new team that was needed to cover validation and development of AI Products at Intel.
  • Development of tests in Python and Bash for PyTorch, TensorFlow, Intel Neural Compressor (INC), Modin, SciKit Learn, XGBoost, ONNX and Jax to test hardware compatibility and correct functionality of their Intel Hardware Optimized counterparts
  • Ownership of the development of web report tool using Flask in Python as backend, MySQL and Grafana on a Docker based infrastructure for validation results. Achieved better visibility of the team's results. Explored and tested using NoSQL MongoDB as database instead to allow for iterations of tables structure.
  • Testing of multiple optimized AI and Machine Learning Frameworks using docker containers with GPU Passthrough and CI pipelines for public release.
  • Responsible and owner for validation of all AI Optimized packages available through Pip. Worked in restructuring workflows to reduce validation times and achieved faster deployment of new versions.
  • Developed and deployed containerized RESTful API endpoints in Python (Flask, FastAPI) for automation and reporting, designed for scalability and reliability. Supports authentication using Flask-Login and Werkzeug security library.
  • Updating public PyTorch examples to support Accelerator API via open-source contributions. This is done using my company GitHub Profile
Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
System Validation Engineer
Intel Corporation
Validation Engineer in a Power and performance team.
  • Development of scripts in Python for Stress Testing Validation. Helped reduce validation times achieving time sensitive goals for server products.
  • Testing products in development under certain temperature and voltage conditions for spec compliance using MPI and some in house hardware testing tools.
  • Cross-team collaboration with product and research teams to fill a gap in validation that reduced cost of production and number of bugs in production.
  • Development and documentation of tools Python based for testing suite that included scope communication via SSH and different thermal controls for faster and cleaner testing. Achieved fast adoption and reduced execution times compared to previous products
  • Development of a report generation script with Python, based on test tools for use with different test results in XLSX and CSV files. Reduced report generation times after initial adoption.
  • Development of an automation tool using Python and TKinter for test automation configuration using YAML files to deploy test cases via JTAG and SSH communication.
  • Ownership of a Power Rail for the new Xeon Project stress validation.
2016 - Present
Software Developer, Network Technician
PCTOP
  • Partial Back-end development in various ColdFusion based web sites for clients in the transportation and newspaper industry.
  • Website support for an inherited site with a catalog of lamp designs.
  • Development of an API Gateway (Closed source) Back-end using Python, Reflex, FastAPI, SQLModel, Pydantic, PostgreSQL. The code is being tracked in a self-hosted instance of Forgejo in PCTOP servers.
  • Assisted multiple network installations for office networks consisting of routers, switches, network racks and RJ45 cabling.
  • Assembly of multiple computer systems for CAD Design with complete driver and software installation.
  • Support for a self-hosted Linux testing lab consisting of around 50+ Docker containers for multiple services for internal andpublic-facing use.
  • Support on-prem deployment and maintenance of tools as a system administrator for multiple clients.

Technology

Python 5 years of experience with web, test and tooling development in multiple domains. Coldfusion and PHP 3 years of web development Other Languages C++, Java for Android Development, JavaScript, SQL (MySQL), NoSQL(MongoDB), Shell Scripting Language, Go (golang) Developer Tools Git, GitLab and GitHub, Docker and Docker Compose, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions CI/CD, GitOps, Ansible, Terraform Frameworks and Libraries TensorFlow, PyTorch, GitHub Actions CICD, Grafana, Flask, FastAPI, Reflex, Pandas, NumPy, Tkinter, Bootstrap, GraphQL (familiarity). Other Skills Computer Systems Architecture, Digital Circuits and Analog Electronics, Mobile Robotics, \ DevOps, Agile, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE),Test Case Development, Networking, Full Stack Development, APIs, Docker Build, Machine Learning, Linux Server Management, MLOps, Secure Code, Automated Testing, Cloud Infrastructure, RESTful API Design, Powershell scripting.
Other technologies: RabbitMQ, Couchbase, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure, Tanium, Satellite, Netbackup, Nagios, ELK, Elastic Cloud, Kibana, DNS, Wireguard VPN and similar solutions, CMDB management, CosmosDB, Azure Log Analytics.

Education

2021
Bachelor of Science in Mechatronics Engineering
Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Language

English Full professional proficiency Spanish Native proficiency

Project highlights

2026 Self-Hosted CI/CD Pipelines for personal sites

Setup and host my own CI/CD pipelines and runners across multiple locations to build and publish a couple of personal sites.
Technology
Docker, Proxmox, Linux, Go, HTML, CDN
Role
Setup my own Git personal Forgejo instance to support a personal space for my projects. Configured a Forgejo Actions CI/CD pipeline for the site where I have my online CV/Resume and a pipeline to build and publish a Hugo (Go based) Blog that is version controled in my forge.

2025 GitOps Infrastructure Setup

Build the GitOps Infrastructure from the ground up for the Kubernetes clusters that support software developers working in AI software development.
Position
DevOps Engineer @ Intel
Technology
Python, Bash, Linux, Go, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible
Role
Lead the build, deployment and maintenance a GitOps infrastructure to support development workflows using KubeVirt, Rook Ceph, Kubespray, Ansible and FluxCD for multiple on-premises Kubernetes Clusters.

2022 - 2023 Automation suite setup

Adoption and construction of an automated testing suite using GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows.
Position
AI Software Development Engineer @ Intel
Technology
GitHub Actions, Python, Docker, Pytest
Role
Using old and new tests, we developed an automated testing suite that helped achieve faster and cleaner validation of new software products known as AI Tools Selector and AI Reference Kits, reducing validation times and minimizing manual testing. Fast adoption of the technology within the department to make the validation of software and the deployment of new versions quicker. This resulted in a Divisional Award given to me and a couple of teammates for time-lag elimination in the second half of 2024.

2021 Development TuMenuPro Android App as a freelance project

Implementing the rendering engine and client applications for the e-reader application of Hungary's largest book store company.
Position
Software Developer @ PCTOP
Technology
Java, Gradle, Git
Role
I was the lead developer of the Android App for a client. The app supported the Camera SDK to be able to read QR codes and take the user to the menu page.