Gabriel Banchs

Gabriel Banchs

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Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer | Kubernetes, GitOps & Cloud Cost Optimization | GCP & Terraform Certified
Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia
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  • Remotely.works
    Senior DevOps Engineer - Cove (Property Management SaaS) public Remote experience
    Remotely.works
    Nov 2025 - Current (1 year)
    AWS cloud engineering and DevOps for Cove: scalable infrastructure on ECS and Fargate, Terraform IaC, and serverless workloads with Lambda. Security and compliance work covering SOC 2, IAM, WAF, VPNs, secrets management with Vault and Secret Manager, and Cloudflare for CDN and DDoS protection. CI/CD with GitHub Actions and monitoring with Datadog. Also drove AI adoption across teams to speed up engineering workflows.
  • Gorilla Logic
    Lead DevOps Engineer - Ford Hybrid Cloud Automation Team (GCP/AWS/Azure)
    Gorilla Logic
    Jul 2022 - Mar 2026 (3 years 9 months)
    Hybrid-cloud automation for Ford Motor Company across GCP, AWS and Azure. Kubernetes and OpenShift/Tekton delivery pipelines, Terraform IaC, and CI/CD for enterprise workloads.
  • EPAM
    Senior Systems Engineer
    EPAM
    Jul 2021 - Jul 2022 (1 year 1 month)
    Kubernetes and container orchestration on EKS and GKE across AWS and GCP. CI/CD pipelines and automation, microservices architecture, Terraform and Ansible IaC, and SRE practices covering monitoring, performance, metrics and logging.
  • Dynamic Devs
    Lead DevOps Engineer
    Dynamic Devs
    Feb 2021 - Jul 2021 (6 months)
    Cloud architecture and DevSecOps across GCP and AWS. Infrastructure as Code, microservices architecture, container orchestration and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Rappi
    Senior DevOps / Cloud Architect / SysAdmin
    Rappi
    Nov 2019 - Feb 2021 (1 year 4 months)
    Cloud infrastructure and DevOps for one of Latin America's highest-traffic consumer platforms, on AWS. Infrastructure as Code, continuous integration, and day-to-day production operations.
  • Shokworks, Inc.
    CTO
    Shokworks, Inc.
    Sep 2018 - Nov 2019 (1 year 3 months)
    Owned technology strategy, architecture and the engineering team, including hiring, mentoring and delivery. Designed and operated the AWS platform: containers on ECS/ECR, serverless with Lambda and API Gateway, CI/CD with CodePipeline and CodeBuild, load balancing and autoscaling, CloudWatch monitoring and alarms, Redis/Memcached caching, and VPC networking.
  • Vascar Solutions
    Full Stack Developer
    Vascar Solutions
    Jan 2017 - Nov 2019 (2 years 11 months)
    Develop solutions (Apps, Website hotfix, custom programming, API, integrations) for other companies and clients even for own company Vascar Solutions Website.
  • Vascar Solutions
    AWS Cloud Infrastructure Architect - DevOps -SysAdmin
    Vascar Solutions
    Jan 2017 - Jan 2019 (2 years 1 month)
    FullStack Developer, DevOps, CI/CD Code Build, CodePipeline, AWS.
  • O
    Senior Magento Developer
    OrbeEx.com
    Jan 2017
    E-commerce development on Magento: custom themes and extensions, front-end performance work, and Linux/VPS server administration.
  • LogosCorp
    Front-end & Back-End Developer
    LogosCorp
    Apr 2015 - Jan 2017 (1 year 10 months)
    Full-stack web development for client projects: REST APIs and web services, responsive front-ends, CMS and e-commerce builds, and Linux/VPS server administration.
  • Pdvsa Petrocedeño S.A.
    Senior PHP Developer
    Pdvsa Petrocedeño S.A.
    Jul 2014 - Oct 2014 (4 months)
    Consultant for web-oriented systems integration: PHP development connected to SAP.
  • 21st Century Fox
    Systems Coordinator
    21st Century Fox
    May 2010 - Jul 2013 (3 years 3 months)
    Development and administration of the company website and internal systems, network administration, and new application development. Grew site traffic during the period.
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  • Instituto Universitario Nuevas Profesiones
    TSU en Computación, Programación, analisis de sistemas, ingles, tecnología, electrónica
    Instituto Universitario Nuevas Profesiones
    Jan 2002 - Jan 2005 (3 years 1 month)
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    Independent Platform Engineering - Kubernetes, GitOps & FinOps engagements public Remote experience
    Jul 2022 - Current (4 years 4 months)
    Ongoing independent and part-time engagements run alongside my main role; clients are not named. Kubernetes platforms on EKS and GKE, GitOps delivery with ArgoCD and Flux, Helm packaging, observability stacks built on Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Fluent Bit, Datadog instrumentation, secrets management, and cloud cost optimization / FinOps reviews.