📸 Say cheese, everyone! 📸
Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer & SRE, a self-starter, and a hands-on leader who loves technology. Docker Ambassador, K8s big fan. Critical thinking, decision-making, and really good at solving problems. Likes to teach and learn every day. Sci-Fi passionate & TMNT lover 🐢 ❤️
:wqGood knowledge of new technologies in general, exposed to many programming languages, technologies, and platforms. 6+ years of full-time relevant experience as a DevOps/SRE and 5+ years as a Software Engineer. Experience leading teams of up to 12 people. Special skills and experience in startups.
a.k.a. @acactown
- 🚀 I'm currently learning the huge Kubernetes world
- ❤️ Open Source lover ❤️
- 👨🏻💻 Most of my projects are available on Github
- 👾 Fun fact: When I was a kid, I wanted to be the Yo-Yo 🪀 world champion until I knew what I was passionate about; Software and the tech world!
- 👨👧 I was lucky to be the father of Luciana Amado González 👧🏽, I feel very proud of it, and I want to be the best dad and the best person that she is teaching me to be every day. 🥰
- 📫 Feel free to ping me on LinkedIn
- 🔖 Checkout my Resume
- 📝 All my emails should include a smiley face or a party hat to add a dash of color. I ❤️ emojis!
- 🍕 Hackathons, meetups & tech events
Please feel free to contact me if you want to do a PoC, validate an idea, chat about Yo-Yo tricks 🪀 (I will not give up), or good software practices that I did not mention before.
- ✉️
acactown@gmail.com - 📍Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴
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summary: |
I'm a Colombian polyglot, multi-paradigm, non-dogmatic Software Engineer,
a self-starter and a hands-on leader who loves technology :wq
spokenLanguages:
native: es-CO # 🇨🇴
bilingualProficiency:
- pt-BR # 🇧🇷
- groot # I am Groot 🌳
workingProficiency:
- en-US # 🇺🇸
learning:
- fr-CA # 🇨🇦
- nl-NL # 🇳🇱 Life isn't too short to learn Dutch 💪
askMeAbout:
- Software Development Life Cycle
- DevOps & SRE
- Agility
- CI/CD
- Cloud Computing
- Containerized Environments
- Process Automation
- GitOps
- Configuration Management
- Empowerment and Flexibility of Development Teams
- Immutable Infrastructure as Code
- Elastic Computing
- Orchestration vs Choreography
- Microservices
- Serverless
- Scalable Provisioning and Sizing
- TDD
- Quality Assurance & Quality Control
- Versioning Strategies
- TMNT
skillsAndKnowledge:
backend:
proficientIn:
Java:
- Spring
- JEE
- Micronaut
- Quarkus
- Maven
Groovy:
- Grails
- Gradle
Scala:
- Play
- SBT
Ruby:
- RoR
Python:
- Flask
- Django
- FastAPI
Node:
- Express
- Loopback
- NPM
- Grunt/Gulp
- Webpack
"C#":
- .NET Framework
- .Net Core
- Nuget
Golang:
- Cobra
- Beego
- GOKit
- Gorilla
learning:
- Rust
frontend:
proficientIn:
- Angular
- React
- Ember
learning:
- VueJs
databases:
proficientIn:
relational:
- MySql
- PostgreSQL
- Sqlite
no-relational:
- MongoDB
- DynamoDB
- Redis
learning:
- Cassandra
- Neo4J
containers:
proficientIn:
engines:
- Docker
- Podman
orchestrators:
- docker-compose
- Docker Swarm
learning:
- Kubernetes
- Nomad
cloudProviders:
proficientIn:
- AWS
- Azure
- Heroku
learning:
- GCP
- Digital Ocean
OS:
concepts:
proficientIn:
- Process Management
- Threads and Concurrency
- Sockets
- Networking
- Startup Management
- Service Management
- I/O Management
- Memory/Storage
- File System
learning:
- Virtualization
Operating Systems:
proficientIn:
Linux:
- SUSE Linux
- Debian
- Ubuntu
- CentOS # Goodbye old-friend :(
learning:
- Windows # Believe it or not!
IaC:
proficientIn:
- Terraform
- Cloudformation
learning:
- Pulumi
configurationManagement:
proficientIn:
- Ansible
- Chef
learning:
- Puppet
CI/CD:
proficientIn:
- Jenkins
- Github Actions
- Gitlab CICD
- Travis
- Circle CI
- Bamboo
learning:
- Azure Devops
- ArgoCD
- FluxCD
- Jenkins X
- Tekton
monitoring:
infra:
proficientIn:
- Nagios
- Grafana
- Datadog
learning:
- Prometheus
app:
proficientIn:
- New Relic
- Datadog
learning:
- Jaeger
- Opentracing
log:
proficientIn:
- Elastic Stack
- Graylog
learning:
- Splunk
architecture:
proficientIn:
- Microservices Architecture
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Serverless Architecture
learning:
- Hexagonal Architecture
currentFocus:
- Cloud Native Apps
- GitOps
- Kubernetes
- HELM
- OpenFaaS
- CoreDNS
- Consul
- Vault
- Kong
- Istio
- Traefik
- Kiali
- Rancher
- OPA
- Sysdig
- Spinnaker
- Calico
- k6
funFacts:
- To be honest, I hate YAML but, I learned how to live with it! # Yeah, who doesn't <love><repeating>everything</repeating></love>?
- I reviewed more than 50 Github profiles before creating my one # 🧩 This profile is like a Frankenstein profile