Overview
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Miguel Uzcategui

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Engineer

Bloomberg
04.2023 - Current
  • Developed a cloud-like, API-driven solution for bare metal as a service leveraging Kubernetes reconcilers, and improving bare metal acquisition times from days to less than 5 minutes.
  • Developed a new solution to orchestrate automated maintenance and other day-2 operations for bare-metal machines. This enabled users to perform self-service operations across their fleet of machines, with no application downtime.
  • Designed a system to perform automated periodic firmware upgrades across the entire bare-metal platform with 0 downtime to the users.
  • Integrated the bare-metal ecosystem capacity management demand and supply workflows with upstream budgeting systems and users, cutting admins as operational bottlenecks.

Technology Vice President

Goldman Sachs
12.2020 - 02.2023
  • Co-tech lead of the GS Kubernetes platform. Responsibilities include driving the platform's direction and strategy, as well as managing people.
  • Main architect of the Kubernetes public cloud strategy for the next-generation k8s clusters.
  • Pioneered automated provisioning of OpenShift clusters as the next-generation Kubernetes platform for the GS internal cloud.
  • Focused on the migration of existing in-house-grown Kubernetes solutions to newer OpenShift clusters.

Technology Associate

Goldman Sachs
12.2018 - 12.2020
  • Managed the global multi-clustered kubernetes environment creating new controllers and automation to interact with the firm's ecosystem
  • Managed the DNS integration with GS's in-house DNS solution to provide external connectivity to clients for apps living inside our k8s clusters
  • Helped create the monitoring stack for the k8s platform based on Prometheus & Grafana to provide customer-driven SLO and SLI and overall alerting for the platform
  • Created a policy-driven kubernetes environment using Open Policy Agent to create namespaced-based resources automatically
  • Policy pushes and resource creation went from days to minutes
  • Co-managed the new Saltstack-based configuration management system for the firm
  • The purpose was to ensure correct integration with the GS ecosystem

Technology Analyst

Goldman Sachs
02.2016 - 12.2018
  • Developed the k8s platform as the firm's next-generation compute provisioning solution
  • In charge of the integration between the internal cloud controller and the saltstack based configuration management system using Vert.x based Groovy applications
  • Helped to develop the Linux update management platform to provide continuous Linux patching at scale on a monthly basis
  • Managed the Elasticsearch cluster for the team used for multiple reporting jobs

Student Employee

Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX)
12.2014 - 05.2015
  • Design AWS, and OpenStack drivers in Java for MAX's VersaStack network operating system

Education

MS - Telecommunications

University Of Maryland
College Park, MD
05.2016

BS - Electrical Engineering with Computer Engineering

University Of The District Of Columbia
Washington, D.C
05.2014

Skills

  • Python
  • Golang
  • Java
  • Groovy
  • Openshift
  • Kubernetes
  • Open Policy Agent
  • Kube-mgmt
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Alertmanager
  • Postgres
  • Envoy Gatway
  • Envoy Proxy
  • Vertx
  • Spring Boot
  • MongoDB
  • ElasticSearch
  • Kibana
  • AWS
  • Linux
  • Redhat
  • Ubuntu
  • OTEL telemery

Certification

Cisco CCNET certified, 08/14

Presentations

Kubernetes Policy Enforcement Using OPA At Goldman Sachs, Kubecon Americas 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYHr_UaHsYQ

Timeline

Senior Engineer

Bloomberg
04.2023 - Current

Technology Vice President

Goldman Sachs
12.2020 - 02.2023

Technology Associate

Goldman Sachs
12.2018 - 12.2020

Technology Analyst

Goldman Sachs
02.2016 - 12.2018

Student Employee

Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX)
12.2014 - 05.2015

MS - Telecommunications

University Of Maryland

BS - Electrical Engineering with Computer Engineering

University Of The District Of Columbia
Miguel Uzcategui