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Kevin Ríos Ferrer

Kevin Ríos Ferrer

Mexico City

Summary

Software Reliability Engineer with expertise in sysadmin automation, web development, and container debugging. Proficient in applying DevOps principles to lead teams through the software development lifecycle. Proven success in improving system reliability and efficiency through proactive monitoring, Python and Bash scripting, and meticulous troubleshooting.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle 5G telecommunications
Remote Mexico City, Mexico
12.2021 - Current

Technical expertise.

  • Collaborated with Scrum teams. Built CI/CD GitLab pipelines for automated microservices, 5G, and NF products.

Administer Kubernetes clusters.

  • Ensured smooth operations for dev/test environments across bare metal, OpenStack, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Troubleshoot and configure Kubernetes control plane to address performance issues and debugging logs.
  • Performed upgrades, installations, debugged issues, and deployed helm applications.
  • Maintain Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts for cluster monitoring.
  • Develop and implement Bash and Python scripts to automate monitoring commands.

Tech Lead.

  • Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the team.
  • Work collaboratively with development, QA, and Dev teams.

Test Automation Developer

Oracle
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
08.2018 - 12.2021
  • Developing a Python framework for automated Oracle Database Appliance functional testing for bare metal and emulated VMs.
  • Developed test plans and test cases in a behavior-driven development framework to ensure product quality and performance.

Full Stack Web Developer

AulaMejor
Mexico City, Mexico
12.2016 - 05.2018
  • Developed Python web crawlers for data collection and analysis.
  • Implemented AWS and Scrum methodology to create a serverless API-REST.
  • Successfully optimized AWS expenses resulting in a 10% cost reduction, utilizing containerization as a key strategy.
  • Designed efficient database schemas to store data from the web applications.
  • Integrated third-party APIs into the web applications for additional features and functionality.

Consultant and Software Developer

DGTIC -UNAM
Mexico City, Mexico
04.2015 - 12.2016
  • Collaboratively improved the impact of Conahcyt index's 137 e-journals through the configuration and maintenance of digital tools, while assuming responsibility as a Linux sysadmin for app hosting.
  • Collaborated on the 'Gaceta digital UNAM' project, developing a search module that integrated Lucene-Solr index with WordPress.

Education

DevOps Foundation Certification

DevOps Institute
02-2023

Scrum Master Certified (SMC)

CertiProf International
12-2022

Certified Tester Foundation Level

ISTQB
11-2018

Diplomat Databases Analysis, Tuning And Performanc

Facultad De Ingeniería, UNAM
01.2018

Computing Engineering

Facultad De Ingeniería. UNAM.
08-2015

MySQL Performance Tuning

Oracle University
01-2015

MySQL For Database Administrators

Oracle University
12-2014

Skills

1 DevOps (Ansible, Kubernetes, GitLab)
2 Cloud Services (AWS, OCI)
3 Database Management (MySQL, DynamoDB)
4 Automation Scripting (Bash, Python)
5 Web Development (HTML, CSS, JS)

6 Design tools (Photoshop, Lightroom)

Timeline

Site Reliability Engineer

Oracle 5G telecommunications
12.2021 - Current

Test Automation Developer

Oracle
08.2018 - 12.2021

Full Stack Web Developer

AulaMejor
12.2016 - 05.2018

Consultant and Software Developer

DGTIC -UNAM
04.2015 - 12.2016

DevOps Foundation Certification

DevOps Institute

Scrum Master Certified (SMC)

CertiProf International

Certified Tester Foundation Level

ISTQB

Diplomat Databases Analysis, Tuning And Performanc

Facultad De Ingeniería, UNAM

Computing Engineering

Facultad De Ingeniería. UNAM.

MySQL Performance Tuning

Oracle University

MySQL For Database Administrators

Oracle University