Alberto Grespan

Reliability Engineer - Caracas, Venezuela
[email protected] - github.com/albertogg

Skills

• Languages: Ruby, JRuby, Go, Scala, Java, Bash.
• API development using Ruby Grape, Go, Akka, Rails.
• Experience building infrastructure atop of AWS.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Configuration management experience with Ansible.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in GitLab and AWS CodePipeline.
• Database experience using MySQL, PostgreSQL, and VoltDB.

Professional Experience

Reliability Engineer at Full 360 Inc, November 2017 - Present

• Developed Terraform best practices for the company.
• Developed a new set of AWS AMIs using Packer and Ansible to comply with internal security standards.
• Led efforts migrating internal infrastructure from CloudFormation to Terraform.

Software Engineer at Full 360 Inc, June 2014 - November 2017

• Developed and maintained a caching layer to minimize the load on a clients Mainframe; used by more than 12 million members on their loyalty program.
• Led efforts migrating a client microservice architecture to Nomad, Vault, Consul, and Prometheus for metrics and alerting.
• Enforced standardization of different services by creating internal toolkits.
• Led efforts migrating a client VoltDB installation from version 3.7 to 6.8.

Writer and Developer at Codehero Blog, June 2013 - June 2014

• Led efforts on the blog migration from WordPress to Jekyll, for a faster and cost effective blog.
• Developed Ansible playbooks to automate server provisioning which reduced the manual process from over an hour to less than 20 minutes.

Android Developer at Aura Internacional, June 2013 - December 2013

• Leverage the company’s private vehicle tracking API in an Android app to provide taxi drivers a solution to arrange pickups based in geolocation.

Full Stack at Cacao Servicios Tecnológicos, March 2012 - March 2013

• Developed internal scripts that analyzed Linux configurations to determine common security flaws.
• Worked as part of the Solaris consultant team in two of the biggest telecoms in Venezuela.

Open Source

• Crafted a VoltDB client library for JRuby, wrapping the official Java client in a Ruby idiomatic way.

Education

• Engineer’s Degree, Informática, at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello - 12'.
• Participant’s Certificate, System Administration for Solaris 10, Part 1,2 - 12'.