Christian Herrera

In my role, I was tasked with building a mature and efficient cloud engineering team to support our GCP organization. Initially, the organization lacked a dedicated cloud engineering team, leaving the data team to manage infrastructure manually through the console. This transitioned to a monolithic Terraform codebase, which the team also managed, but it quickly revealed the scaling issues typical of such designs. Recognizing the need for a more sustainable solution, the organization decided to establish a dedicated infrastructure team. Once I joined, I successfully expanded the team from 3 to 7 engineers and implemented a strategic direction for our infrastructure through yearly initiatives.

One of my key achievements was completely re-architecting our legacy Terraform setup, transforming the monolithic infrastructure codebase into a poly-repo format to support repo democratization. This change resolved the bottlenecks caused by the legacy codebase. Additionally, I took the lead in designing our GCP infrastructure, ensuring that our team consistently delivered cost-efficient and reliable solutions across environments.

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