Hilaick Yard

I'm a Cybersecurity, ICT & Cloud Computing Specialist.

Ex-Amazonian, managed Enterprise Support, SysOps Admin, DevOps & Solutions Architectural best practices with Amazon Web Services.

I'm actively involved with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and hold the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) which is widely recognized as the standard of expertise for cloud security, providing cohesive and vendor-neutral understanding of how to secure data in the cloud.

Currently into consulting business covering Cloud Economics - Financial Management and Compliance.

I'm also providing trainings to several enterprises through courses and bootcamps.

I have 15+ years managing AWS Cloud and 20+ years of experience related to IT in total. I'm fluent across both Windows & Linux platforms.

I work all the way with customers to provide a smooth transition to the Cloud, helping on the design and deployment of secure, scalable and resilient cloud-based applications along with reliable operations.

I also help with Cloud Optimization and reducing customers bills.

• Senior Technical Manager with Amazon Web Services, managing several Enterprise Customers and working on-site with them as required, on multiple cities in LATAM, North America and Europe (CDMX, Monterrey, Madrid, Buenos Aires, CUN, Panama, Bogota, Sao Paulo, Dublin, etc)
• Regardless of the type of app or service offered by these customers, I made sure that security was fundamental on every project in order to keep businesses and infrastructures up and running while maintaining data integrity
• Director of Cloud Services for a company with presence in US, Panama & Singapore that provided a private and secure platform for data storage management at global scale as well as Enterprise Solutions with regards to cloud adoption
• VP of IT Infrastructure & Ops for a company that provides Preoperative Information Management Service with offices in US, Panama & India
• Managed all production and test environments of the systems used by customers, which were mainly Hospitals and Surgery Centers in the US East Coast
• Past job experiences and skills have allowed me to take and complete projects of high importance, lead teams on difficult environments and under budget
• I have been able to reduce operation costs of IT on several branches located at different countries by 60%, increase availability and data durability by 40% and guarantee delivery on remote locations with low bandwidth and high latency
• Worked on resolutions over uncommon scenarios, like restoring systems onboard vessels, networking dry-dock tunnels, enabling emergency power systems for critical server rooms abroad, and restoring health record systems data
• Have reduced impact during critical situations with proactive, automated solutions and effectively transferred knowledge resulting on increased value
• Designed, deployed, migrated and managed corporate and customer applications data throughout several regions around the Globe using AWS for the past 15+ years
• Shaped and delivered on cloud strategies and defined implementation of architectures that included compute, storage, databases, analytics, networking, and management tools, as well as security, scalability, durability and high availability in the most cost-effective way
• Developed and managed complex infrastructures involving multi-platform, multi-tier distributed solutions
• Had configured AutoScaling on several projects on which servers’ concurrency resulted on having over 500 instances running during different peak situations
• I’ve implemented redundancy at every level combined with other services to enhance scalability and high availability
• Have worked with several read instances for databases and master-slave configs on different Availability Zones, as well as with load balancers, CDN, etc
• These on-demand instances, plus dedicated & spot instances, serverless architecture, managed and unmanaged databases and other services could have reached thousands of resources running at the same time
• Implemented service oriented infrastructure as well as cache solutions for independent failures and speed increasing
• I’ve managed monitoring, alerting and metric service tools that are critical as much as logging
• Implemented clusters of instances and created high throughput networks with Placement groups to satisfy low latency, high capacity needs in different regions around the world, while considering scalability for the adding of resources (when needed) and removal (when no longer necessary) for costs optimization using pre-baked AMIs or boot scripts on various
• I have managed Linux flavors and/or Windows environments
• Built reliable services that scale elastically to provide high availability on scenarios where it’s hard to predict what level of traffic will be processed and the number of simultaneous users, in addition to concurrent streaming sessions, processes and threads
• I’ve placed particular importance to make sure that both computing resources and data access throughput were elastic
• I've architected & managed bandwidth-intensive services (media streaming, online gaming, etc) that needed consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale, measured considering several factors in a single region like network connectivity, load balancing, backend server issues (memory, cpu, etc) and end user location
• I’ve learned that latency from different regions to geographically distributed clients or end users is a good indicator of load times and the speed of online applications
• Have implemented geographically distributed instances of a service over multiple regions to mitigate the effects of high network latency to some extent while planning vertical or horizontal scalability ahead
• I’ve completed several AWS Certifications which validate my technical knowledge with an industry-recognized credential
• With between 4 and 6 solutions per year, I’ve learned that architecting and implementing, heavily depends on the team, project objectives & risks, resources inventory, components, etc
• I’ve also acknowledged that each solution is different, and usually work to take necessary timing and staging precautions.