Alberto Grespan

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

Skills

• Languages and APIs: Ruby, JRuby, Go, Python, TypeScript, Rust, Java; Ruby Grape, Akka, Rails, FastAPI.
• Infrastructure and delivery: AWS (ECS, EKS), Nomad, Vault, Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, GitLab, AWS CodePipeline.
• Databases and open source: MySQL, PostgreSQL, VoltDB; VoltDB client for JRuby.

Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Omni Arcs, July 2023 - Present

• Built infrastructure for an agent-based AI platform on Kubernetes and Cloudflare Workers.
• Developed backend services in Python, TypeScript, Rust, and Go.
• Automated end-to-end deployments with GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.

Reliability Engineer at Micro Focus, June 2021 - July 2023

• Developed and maintained the Vertica Database SaaS offering.
• Implemented CI/CD with Bitbucket Pipelines to improve release cadence and reduce manual errors.
• Migrated EC2 infrastructure to Kubernetes and contributed to the Vertica Kubernetes Operator for production readiness.

Reliability Engineer at Full 360 Inc, November 2017 - June 2021

• Defined security-focused Terraform standards for reusable, auditable infrastructure.
• Built secure AWS AMIs with Packer and Ansible to enforce hardening baselines.
• Automated infrastructure delivery via CI/CD and blue/green deployments.

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

• Built and maintained a caching layer to reduce load on a client’s mainframe; used by 12M+ loyalty members.
• Led efforts migrating a client microservice architecture to Nomad, Vault, Consul, and Prometheus for metrics and alerting.
• Standardized services through internal toolkits and led a client VoltDB upgrade from version 3.7 to 6.8.

Earlier Experience

• Writer and Developer, Codehero Blog (2013 - 2014): Migrated the blog from WordPress to Jekyll and automated provisioning with Ansible.
• Android Developer, Aura Internacional (2013): Integrated a private tracking API into an Android app for geolocation-based taxi pickups.
• Full Stack, Cacao Servicios Tecnológicos (2012 - 2013): Built Linux security audit scripts and supported Solaris consulting engagements.

Education

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