About

Automate yourself!

I am Romero. I have over 12 years of experience in software development and mission critical IT operations. From network engineering all the way to automated deployments of “serverless” workloads, I have always been curious and passionate about implementing and defining the next industry technology stack.

Some of the professional credentials I have acquired through the years, either out of curiosity or just for the thrill of being tested, are listed below in no order of relevance:

• AWS Security Specialty
• AWS Solutions Architect
• ITILv3
• CCNA
• CCNA Security
• CCNA Voice
• CCNP
• Cisco IOS Specialist
• HP Network Integration Specialist
• HP BladeSystem Solutions Integrator
• HP Server Solutions Integrator

Some of the programming languages I am most comfortable with:

• TypeScript
• Go
• Python
• Bash/Ksh

Some of the technologies, products and areas I am most comfortable with:

• IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation & CDKs)
• Kubernetes & Helm
• Google Cloud Platform
• Amazon Web Services
• “Vintage” automation (Chef, Ansible & Fabric)
• Hashicorp Vault
• Cloud On-prem (CloudStack & VMWare vCenter)
• Type 1 Hypervisors (ESXi, KVM)
• F5 BIG-IP
• Ceph Object Storage
• MariaDB & PostgreSQL
• BGP & DDoS Mitigation
• Cisco (IOS), Juniper (Junos OS) & Arista (EOS)
• Observability (Graphite, Prometheus, InfluxDB, OpenTelemetry & Grafana)

Coffee?

Interested in having a chat? Feel free to contact me on LinkedIn or Discord (SleepyWalker#5558).

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