Ronald Escalona

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Head Of Engineering at Platzi
Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

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  • Platzi
    Head Of Engineering
    Platzi
    Apr 2022 - Current (4 years 7 months)
  • Platzi
    Head. of Operations
    Platzi
  • Platzi
    Head of Cloud Engineering @ Platzi
    Platzi
    Dec 2019 - Jul 2022 (2 years 8 months)
    - Have fun, Learn a lot, Teach & Happy Hacking!
  • Alkanza
    Senior DevSecOps Engineer
    Alkanza
    Mar 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 10 months)
    - I contributed to apply security best practices aligned with ISO 27.001 and OWASP (Top 10, SAMM, testing guide, among others) through the Secure Software Initiative project.
    - Also I worked with Kubernetes, CI / CD with Jenkins, MongoDB and PostgreSQL and used AWS as a Cloud provider.
    Main fun things at work:

    #AWS
    CloudFormation / EKS / WAF / KMS / IAM / Cognito / Route 53 / VPC / VPN / RDS - Aurora / RedShift / DocumentDB / EC2 / AutoScaling

    #Kubernetes
    AWS EKS / K8S cluster with CoreOS (from scratch) / Etcd with encryption at rest / Secrets Management / Istio

    #Docker
    Dockerfile best practices / inspection

    #Jenkins
    Credentials management / RBAC / Secrets management
  • Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira
    IT Director
    Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira
    Sep 2007 - May 2015 (7 years 9 months)
    - Participate in management decisions about Corporate Governance.
    - Manage the risk associated with IT Infrastructure.
    - Manage the technology needs of the organization through research and development.
    Manage IT Services, ITILv3 approach.
  • A
    Senior IT Specialist
    Asociación Cooperativa OpenSinergia R.L.
    Nov 2006 - Mar 2018 (11 years 5 months)
    - Analysis, design and implementation of solutions strategy accordingly to the client's needs.
    - Vulnerability Management.
    - Optimization and Security Hardening (Operating Systems, Databases and Infrastructure Services)
    Design and Implementation of:
    ● Network Infrastructure Services.
    ● Virtual Private Networks.
    ● Perimeter Security with Firewalls and IDS.
    ● Internet Access through Proxies and Content Filtering.
    ● Load Balancing and High Availability Network Connections.
    ● Data Center Consolidation through Virtualization.
    ● Virtualization & Storage with High Availability.
  • Academia de Software Libre
    Instructor, founder
    Academia de Software Libre
    May 2006 - Nov 2010 (4 years 7 months)
    - Dissemination of Knowledge and Promotion of Free/Libre Software. Focused primarily on university students.
  • Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira
    University Teacher
    Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira
    Sep 2005 - Mar 2018 (12 years 7 months)
    - Teach Network Operating Systems communications, operations and security.
    - Teach Information Security Management System, ISO 27.001:2013.
    - Research, focused on IT security issues.
    GNU/Linux evangelist.
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  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    AWS Cloud Practitioner
    Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Jul 2022
  • Cisco
    CCNA
    Cisco
    Apr 2022
  • SGS
    Auditor Interno ISO 27.001
    SGS
    Jan 2021
  • Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
    Auditoría y Gestión de la Seguridad de la Información, Seguridad informática y de sistemas
    Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
    Jan 2010
  • Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
    Especialista en Seguridad Informática, Seguridad informática y de sistemas
    Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
    Jan 2009 - Jan 2010 (1 year 1 month)
  • Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira
    Ingeniero en Informática, Administración de sistemas informáticos en red
    Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira
    Jan 1998 - Jan 2004 (6 years 1 month)
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    Software de Gestión para Pruebas de Penetración
    Nov 2011
    La investigación consiste en la realización de
    un software que permita gestionar las pruebas de penetración a
    sistemas informáticos, tomando en cuenta metodologías
    internacionales ampliamente reconocidas o creadas por el
    analista de seguridad según sus necesidades. La aplicación
    resultante permite ejecutar una serie de herramientas con
    diferentes propósitos, según la etapa de la metodología empleada,
    relacionar las salidas generadas de tal manera que puedan ser
    empleadas como entradas a otras herramientas en una siguiente
    etapa de una prueba o en la misma en la que se encuentre el caso
    de estudio, también permite gestionar casos de estudios para que
    el analista pueda realizar tantas pru