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Gabriel Santos

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Plano, Texas, United States
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    Senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer
    Stride, Inc. (K12, Inc.)
    May 2022 - Current (4 years)
    • Led cloud DevOps efforts supporting nationwide digital learning platforms, optimizing scalability for peak student usage. • Built secure, reusable CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and AWS CodePipeline, streamlining deployments for over 30 microservices. • Migrated legacy infrastructure to fully automated IaC using Terraform, enabling consistent and version controlled AWS environments. • Introduced observability with Datadog across all environments, drastically reducing response time to production incidents in online classroom services. • Enabled cost savings of 38% by right-sizing compute/storage and optimizing AWS usage during off-peak hours across learning platforms. • Orchestrated Kubernetes clusters via KOps and EK
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    Lead DevOps Engineer
    Worldpay, Inc.
    Jun 2020 - May 2022 (2 years)
    • Oversaw DevOps strategies for high-throughput fintech services ensuring 99.99% uptime under strict SLAs. • Architected AWS-native CI/CD workflows using CodePipeline, Lambda, and CloudFormation for reliable deployments. • Migrated production systems from on-prem to cloud with zero downtime using blue/green deployment strategy. • Created reusable, secure Terraform modules adopted across product teams to scale IaC practices. • Implemented EFK (Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana) stack for centralized logging and performance tracing. • Set up real-time alerting workflows in Prometheus/Grafana for transaction latency and system health. • Partnered with InfoSec to ensure infrastructure changes aligned with PCI-DSS and internal audit controls
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    Senior DevOps Engineer
    Jan 2018 - May 2020 (2 years 5 months)
    • Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and SonarCloud for all codebases. • Implemented Kubernetes with KOPS and later migrated services to EKS for improved scalability and management. • Developed custom Helm charts to streamline and templatize deployments across different environments. • Automated vulnerability scans (Snyk, Trivy) and compliance checks as part of release pipelines (DevSecOps). • Created and maintained Prometheus/Grafana dashboards to monitor latency, errors, and service throughput. • Partnered with QA teams to integrate smoke tests and rollback conditions into pipeline stages. • Supported hybrid cloud environments (AWS & GCP) with networking, IAM, and logging integration. • Developed T
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    DevOps Engineer
    Nov 2015 - Dec 2017 (2 years 2 months)
    • Managed Jenkins CI pipelines and release automation for Java-based backend services. • Wrote Ansible playbooks to automate OS-level configuration, app deployment, and patch management. • Dockerized legacy applications and set up image repositories for internal usage and deployment. • Integrated Filebeat pipelines with Elasticsearch for faster issue triage and debugging. • Supported on-call rotations, writing postmortem reports and recommending automation fixes. • Helped provision and configure AWS resources including EC2, S3, IAM, and Route 53 for dev/test. • Wrote bash and Python scripts to automate system checks, backups, and log rotation tasks. • Monitored service uptime using Nagios and gradually migrated monitoring to Prometh
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  • University of Texas
    Bachelor of Science
    University of Texas
    Jan 2011 - Jan 2015 (4 years 1 month)