Leonel Soto
Homestead,FL
Summary
Innovative Solution Architect with in-depth understanding of software deployment and system design illustrated over 6 years of experience in similar roles. Excellent communication skills and extensive experience working with clients and partners. Critical thinking DevOps Engineer with extensive understanding of high availability architecture and concepts. Purpose-driven professional with capacity to be strong team player plus work effectively independently. Bilingual DevOps Engineer with background designing, testing and implementing infrastructure and applications. Talented performer with over 8 years of experience using source control tools to identify and fix bugs in code. Consistent team player with exemplary multitasking skills. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Platform Engineer
Zilch USA, Inc
Miami, FL
03.2022 - Current
- Developed high-quality engineering designs and plans to meet industry standards.
- Played integral role in architecting scalable solutions that supported growing user bases while maintaining optimal performance levels.
- Enhanced platform performance by optimizing infrastructure and implementing automation tools.
- Conducted technical evaluations of engineering designs and test results.
- Analyzed and interpreted data to identify trends and recommend improvements.
- Led engineering teams to successfully complete projects on time and within budget.
- Partnered with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into actionable engineering tasks.
- Documented and developed engineering procedures and processes.
- Provided technical leadership, mentoring junior engineers, and fostering culture of knowledge-sharing within team.
- Leveraged containerization technology for streamlined application packaging and distribution across environments.
- Created detailed reports on engineering activities and findings.
- Championed best practices in code quality through code reviews, refactoring initiatives, and documentation efforts.
- Established metrics-driven culture, utilizing key performance indicators to guide decision-making in platform operations.
- Increased system reliability with proactive monitoring and timely issue resolution, optimizing response time usually above 5 second to bellow 1 second response.
- Designed and implemented quality control processes to facilitate customer satisfaction.
- Spearheaded migration efforts to cloud-based infrastructure, resulting in improved scalability and cost savings.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Demonstrated leadership skills in managing projects from concept to completion.
- Worked well in team setting, providing support and guidance.
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
- Implemented automated systems to improve accuracy and efficiency of engineering processes.
DevOps/SRE Engineer
SmartX
West Palm Beach
06.2021 - 12.2022
- Monitor, manage and create CI/CD pipeline, establish processes to help with quality of software, set up policy of Infrastructure as Code(CDK), decoupling old process and help develop and implement of new system
- Contribute with microservices implementation, and de-monolith legacy application into more API oriented environment
- Architect and implement/develop healthy, high available, resilient and scalable architecture.
- System was handling around 100 request per minute with lots of troubles, after new implementation was handling over 2500 with no limitation, estimation it could handle double with close to same resources.
- Collaborated with other departments to facilitate successful project completion.
- Led engineering teams to successfully complete projects on time and within budget.
- Participated in formal internal design reviews of proposed products and components.
- Applied lean principles to enhance efficiency and reduce waste in various engineering projects.
- Reduced project completion time with efficient resource allocation and effective communication strategies.
DevOps/SRE Engineer
AutoNation INC.
Fort Lauderdale
07.2020 - 06.2021
- Support CI/CD in Codepipeline, Create process of automation for DB(MongoDB Atlas) with terraform and integration with AWS cloud
- Support Digital team in release of services
- Grant service stability, launch new services and review quality in speed. Improving stability in 10% making it 98% fault free system stability and salability.
- Implement new ways of developing CI/CD (Azure Devops and Octopus(minor help here)) and maintain SLA for teams. 30 deployments per hour, during rush times could be up to 50/hour.
- Teach Juniors learning tools, and manage some of them to improve performance.
- Designed and implemented quality control processes to facilitate customer satisfaction.
- Collaborated with other departments to facilitate successful project completion.
DevOps Engineer (Contract)
Tellus LLC
Delray Beach
05.2020 - 07.2020
- Support CI/CD in Codepipeline based on custom docker image, Support process SDLC, Train existing engineer in new procedure CI/CD
- Tested troubleshooting methods and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.
- Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines.
- Investigated new and emerging software applications to select and implement administrative information systems.
- Developed conversion and system implementation plans.
- Developed next generation integration platform for internal applications.
- Developed incident response plans that decreased resolution times for production issues.
- Wrote code and developed tools and integrations to meet cross-platform user needs.
DevOps Engineer
Everymundo LLC
Miami, Fl
03.2016 - 04.2020
- Supervise for quality of products going to production, modernize CI/CD deployments, grant for boosting of SDLC to move to production
- Grant SLA of services
- Help with containerization of legacy application
- Train new engineers in use of got flow and release cycle.
- Established strong interdepartmental communication channels, fostering collaboration between development, operations, and QA teams.
- Conducted regular post-mortems after incidents to identify root causes and prevent recurrence.
- Tested troubleshooting methods and documented resolutions for inclusion in knowledge base for support team use.
- Improved code deployment efficiency by automating processes with CI/CD pipelines, from around 30 min deployment to production per region (3) in AWS to 5-6 min deployment, in lower environments from 15 min to 2 min.
- Designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction and analysis.
- Inspected equipment, assessed functionality, and optimized controls.
- Wrote code and developed tools and integrations to meet cross-platform user needs.
- Increased application scalability by migrating legacy systems to cloud-based platforms.
- Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
- Researched and identified new technologies to use in agile development environment.
- Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
- Completed paperwork, recognizing discrepancies and promptly addressing for resolution.
- Used strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop effective solutions for challenging situations.
- Applied effective time management techniques to meet tight deadlines.
Education
Master of Science - Server Administartion And Information Security
CUJAE
Habana, Cuba08.2010
Bachelor of Science - Computer Sciences And Information Security
UCI
Havana, Cuba07.2008
Skills
- Infrastructure as code (CDK, Terraform)
- Programming (Python, Bash, understanding other as J2EE, Net, C, etc)
- CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure Devops, Codepipeline, GithubActions)
- Containerization (Docker, ECS)
- AWS Cloud Architect certified
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Microservices Architecture
- Incident Management
- Cloud Infrastructure Management
- Agile development methodologies
- Linux Environments
- Object-Oriented Programming
- System Administration
- Software Documentation Control
- Program management expertise
- Route 53 Management
- Scalability and Elasticity
- Security best practices
- Continuous Integration and Deployment
- Cost optimization strategies
- Infrastructure Automation
- Cloud Architecture Design
- AWS Services Expertise
- Database performance
- Identity and Access Management
- Value Engineering
- Network Security
Additional Information
Great team player, love to learn new skills, always trying to keep myself update and contribute teams. Impossible is nothing, restless until fulfill my objective
Personal Information
Title: DevOps Engineer
Certification
- AWS Solution Architect
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Platform Engineer
Zilch USA, Inc
03.2022 - Current
DevOps/SRE Engineer
SmartX
06.2021 - 12.2022
DevOps/SRE Engineer
AutoNation INC.
07.2020 - 06.2021
DevOps Engineer (Contract)
Tellus LLC
05.2020 - 07.2020
DevOps Engineer
Everymundo LLC
03.2016 - 04.2020
Master of Science - Server Administartion And Information Security
CUJAE
Bachelor of Science - Computer Sciences And Information Security
UCI