Results-driven Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) with over 20 years
of experience architecting, implementing, and managing large-scale
GNU/Linux environments. Proven expertise in driving significant cost
reductions and massive capacity scaling through advanced automation,
virtualization, and resilient system design. Expert in Cloud
Infrastructure (OpenStack, Kubernetes), Ceph, and core services, with a
specialization in RHEL, CentOS Stream, Fedora, Gentoo, and Arch Linux
ecosystems. Seeking a senior technical leadership or architectural role
focused on complex, high-availability systems.
Professional Experience
EVALinux | Guadalajara, Jalisco, México Principal Consultant
& Systems Architect | January 2005 – Present
Architected and executed high-impact infrastructure projects for a
diverse global client base. Responsible for all phases of the project
lifecycle, from initial design and planning to implementation,
maintenance, and documentation.
Active contributor to the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
community.
Composer and performer of music released under Creative Commons
licenses.
Infotec (Federal
Government of Mexico)
Cloud Infrastructure Consultant | April 2022 – March
2025
Deployed and managed a highly available OpenStack environment on an
OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) foundation, integrated
with a standalone Ceph cluster for robust, scalable storage.
Administered a Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) cluster and a Red
Hat Satellite deployment for centralized system management,
patching, and provisioning of over 60 RHEL, CentOS, and Debian
servers.
Engineered and maintained HAProxy clusters for high-availability
load balancing of critical services.
ADIP (Federal Government of
Mexico)
OpenStack & Ceph Deployment Engineer | July 2021 –
February 2022
Deployed and supported Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) and Red
Hat Ceph Storage (RHCS), establishing a foundational private
cloud infrastructure.
Conducted comprehensive training sessions for government staff on
RHOSP, RHCS, and Satellite management, enabling successful
knowledge transfer and operational autonomy.
CloudSigma
Senior Systems Administrator | April 2015 – July 2021
Engineered and scaled a global KVM/QEMU virtualization platform
across 10 data centers, achieving 99.9% uptime.
Led the deployment and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters and a
Minio S3-compatible object storage solution (Swift), enhancing
service offerings and operational efficiency.
Key Project: CloudSigma v2.0 Implementation (Nov 2011 - Mar
2012)
Designed and implemented the CloudSigma v2.0 infrastructure, a
KVM/Qemu + libvirt stack for servers.
Implemented GlusterFS for distributed storage after evaluating
LustreFS, Ceph, and XtreemeFS.
Created a fully automated installation of a 20-server rack using
Puppet, including SELinux configuration.
Authored complete project documentation using Sphinx (RST).
Grupo QUID
Infrastructure Consultant | January 2013 – August 2018
Architected and executed a full migration to a cloud-native
infrastructure, resulting in a 90% reduction in operational
costs while simultaneously increasing request capacity
by 3000%.
Deployed and managed one of Mexico's first multi-master MariaDB
Galera clusters, ensuring high availability and write
scalability for critical database operations.
Expert Creations
Infrastructure Manager | January 2011 - April 2015
Managed all servers for a hosting company with several hundred
client websites.
Infrastructure included 2 MariaDB servers, 4 application servers
(Nginx, PHP), and 2 DNS servers.
Reduced costs and resolved issues related to various applications
(Redis, PHP, Let's Encrypt).
Technical Skills
AI / MLOps: LLM Serving (Ollama), Vector Databases
(pgvector), Data Ingestion (Tika), Model Deployment.