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José María Palenzuela Plaza

DevOps Engineer | Cloud Architect | Infrastructure Automation

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About Me

DevOps Engineer who refuses to do manual work twice.

Started managing bare metal & cloud servers (AWS, GCP), got tired of clicking buttons, so I automated everything. Now I build CI/CD pipelines for fun and deploy Kubernetes clusters in my sleep.

What I Actually Do:

  • Cloud Wrangling: AWS, GCP (because one cloud is never enough)
  • Automation Addict: If it moves, I'll write Terraform for it. If it doesn't move, I'll still write Terraform for it
  • Container Enthusiast: Docker, Kubernetes, and yes, even more Kubernetes
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, and occasionally crying over YAML indentation
  • Monitoring Maestro: Setting up alerts so I can sleep peacefully (or get woken up at 3 AM)

Current Side Quests:

  • Building RetroGameCloud (because DevOps + retro gaming = chef's kiss)
  • Running 25-30 self-hosted services in my homelab (yes, I have a problem)
  • Learning new ways to automate the automation

Tech Stack

AWS Terraform Kubernetes Docker ArgoCD GitHub Actions Prometheus Grafana Python PostgreSQL Linux

Core Competencies

Infrastructure

  • ✅ Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • ✅ Cloud Architecture (AWS)
  • ✅ Network Configuration
  • ✅ High Availability Design
  • ✅ Disaster Recovery Planning

DevOps Practices

  • ✅ CI/CD Pipeline Design
  • ✅ GitOps Workflows (ArgoCD)
  • ✅ Container Orchestration
  • ✅ Configuration Management
  • ✅ Automated Testing & Deployment

Monitoring & Reliability

  • ✅ Observability Stacks
  • ✅ Alerting & Incident Response
  • ✅ Performance Optimization
  • ✅ Log Aggregation
  • ✅ SRE Practices

Security & Compliance

  • ✅ Secret Management
  • ✅ Access Control (IAM)
  • ✅ Security Hardening
  • ✅ Compliance Automation
  • ✅ Network Security

Featured Projects

RetroGameCloud

Full-stack DevOps Gaming Platform

Complete infrastructure automation featuring user management, classic DOS games, and comprehensive DevOps pipeline

Terraform Kubernetes ArgoCD FastAPI Docker GitHub Actions

Homelab Infrastructure

25-30 Self-Hosted Services

Personal cloud infrastructure running Plex, media automation, and various containerized applications

K3s Docker Helm Monitoring Network Automation

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