Mario R.

Mario Rodriguez = Cloud Engineer & DevOps I'm a senior CLOUD ENGINEER with extensive experience designing, building, and operating production-grade cloud infrastructure for startups and scaling businesses. My work focuses on turning abstract business requirements into stable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud systems. Rather than simply deploying services, I specialize in architectural decision-making, long-term maintainability, and operational resilience. I have led cloud initiatives from early design stages through production rollout, incident response, and continuous optimization. I have deep hands-on experience with AWS-based architectures, including VPC design, IAM security models, high-availability systems, and disaster recovery strategies. I routinely design infrastructures that balance performance, security, and cost, and I am comfortable justifying architectural trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. On the DevOps side, I build automated CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and observability stacks that allow teams to deploy confidently and recover quickly. I have worked closely with development teams to standardize deployment patterns, enforce security best practices, and reduce operational overhead. From an operation perspective, I have managed: - Production incidents and post-mortems - System monitoring, alerting, and capacity planning - Cost optimization and cloud spend governance - Security hardening and compliance-aware enfironments Regarding programming, my primary focus is on infrastructure and platform engineering but I am capable of working with bakend services when needed. I have practical experience with Go(Golang) for lightweight services, internal tools, and cloud-native components, though my strenght lies more in system design, automation, and cloud operations rather than pure application development. I work best with clients who value: - Clear architecture over quick hacks - Long-term stability over short-term shortcuts - Engineers who think in systems, not just tools If you need a cloud engineer who can own your infrastructure end-to-end, communicate clearly, and make technically sound decisions under real-world constraints, I would be glad to help.