About Me

Andres Torres

Senior DevOps engineer with 15+ years designing and automating cloud infrastructure. I focus on AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD, Flux), and observability with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and DataDog.

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2023–2026)
  • Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect (2020–2022)
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (2022–2024)
  • Terraform Enterprise Implementation Foundations
  • HashiCorp Implementation Partner (CHIP)

My Career

Gorilla Logic

Cloud engineering consulting for enterprise clients on AWS. Design and deploy resilient, secure infrastructure with Terraform, Kubernetes (EKS), and GitHub Actions. Implemented GitOps with CircleCI and ArgoCD, increasing deployment frequency. Created onboarding guides and standardized infrastructure modules; mentor junior engineers.

February 2020 - Present
Cloud Engineering Expert Consultant

Avantica C.A.

Act as infrastructure developer for our clients, working with a big suite of tools such as, Kubernetes, Chef, Terraform, Cloudformation, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Vagrant, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and other automation software.

September 2018 - February 2020
DevOps Engineer

Flugel IT

Act as infrastructure developer for our clients, working with a big suite of tools such as, Kubernetes, Chef, Terraform, Cloudformation, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Vagrant, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and other automation software.

March 2018
DevOps Engineer

Intertec International

Acts in a lead technical role providing technical guidance and consultation with developers, clients and IT management for web systems environments. Provides the strategy and design for projects associated with web and e-commerce application installations, upgrades and deployments. Utilizes advanced technologies and methods to integrate web systems with existing systems, enabling the creation of new or expanded web enterprises. Develops new documentation and departmental technical procedures. Directs the gathering of performance statistics to assist in determining hardware and communication tools needed to support projected transaction volumes, response time and system availability targets. As an escalation point, provides guidance and direction to less experienced staff in resolution of highly complex technical problems involving the maintenance and/or creation of web sites and e-commerce applications and their integration into the existing systems environment. Leads projects, allocates and manages resources and manages the work of less experienced staff. Assures quality, security and compliance requirements are met for supported area and oversees creation of or updates to and testing of the business continuation plan The tools used on my daily work were SO as Unix/Linux, Solaris, Web App Servers as Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, also HP OVO, F5s, IBM MQ, IBM WebSphere

Dec. 2016 - Sep. 2017
Web Systems Engineer

GlobalR C.A.

AWS SSr. Administrator, CuriaSport's deployment manager using capistrano for RoR, managing Nginx, Tomcat7 and PostgreSQL Servers, also the responsable of Curia's Infrastructure with includes security policies, backup policies and access policies. Middleware Engineer, responsible of administration, installation and troubleshooting on Weblogic, Oracle SOA Suite and others middleware applications. GlobalR Leader with Oracle responsable of following, attention and control over the GlobalR employees working with Oracle. Data Base (ORACLE, MSSQL) and Application (TUXEDO, Weblogic) Administrator on Telefonica Venezuela. Weblogic Administrator in Windows Azure cloud, management and configuration of Nagios and Puppet Servers. Support and continuity to the Pre-payment Movistar platform using ProC and OracleSQL.

Feb. 2013 - Dec. 2016
Oracle Support Engineer / Leader Middleware GlobalR

The Factory HKA.

Leader of web development unit using Yii, P4A, MySQL and PostgreSQL. I also was the network administrator, applications, enterprise servers and technical support to end users

Feb. 2010 - Feb. 2013
Web Developer Unit Lead

Consultores Micorp C.A.

Analyst and web application developer, using PHP and PostgreSQL

March 2009 - Feb. 2010
Web Developer

NBreve C.A.

Analyst and web application developer, using Java hibernate, Jboss and PostgreSQL.

Oct. 2007 - March 2008
Web Developer

Freelance projects

1454029 B.C. LTD

Consulting engagement. Delivered automated deployments with Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS; reduced provisioning time. Implemented reusable CI/CD pipelines on GitHub Actions for infrastructure and application workflows.

DevOps Consultant

Xerris Inc.

Consulting engagement. Delivered Terraform modules and reusable CI/CD workflows (GitLab, Bitbucket) to support infrastructure modernization and reduce time-to-deploy. Advised on scalable, secure environments on AWS and GCP. Supported technical hiring and mentoring initiatives.

DevOps Consultant

My Skills

My Projects

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Chef-Terraform Example

This project is an example of AWS Jenkins configuration with Terraform and Chef

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Docker Rails-Nginx Image

This project is an Rails/Nginx image that works with a PostgresDB

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Gcloud-K8-GoCD

This project is an Rails/Nginx image that works with a PostgresDB

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