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Experience: 20+ Years Enterprise: 7000+ Cloud Subscriptions Focus: IaC & Resilient Cloud Platforms

🌊 About Me

"From developer to DevOps — I bring a coder's mindset to infrastructure."

profile:
  name: "Leon Alvarez"
  title: "DevOps & Software Engineer"
  enterprise_brand: "Soluciones Austral"
  core_philosophy: "Infrastructure as craft. Clean architecture, automation, and operational resilience."
  languages:
    - "Spanish (Native)"
    - "English (Fluent / Professional)"
    - "Mandarin Chinese (Learning / Hobby)"
  metrics:
    experience: "20+ Years (since 1998)"
    cloud_subscriptions_managed: "7000+"
    repositories_maintained: "180+"
  key_domains:
    - "Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, OpenTofu, ARM Templates, Ansible"
    - "Cloud Platforms & Multi-Cloud: Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud"
    - "CI/CD & Deployment Automation: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab"
    - "Container Orchestration & Microservices: Kubernetes, Helm, Docker"

My journey began in 1998 as a developer building web applications and content engines. Over two decades, my evolution was defined by critical operational milestones:

  • Foundations & Scalability (GODisruptive & Soluciones Austral): Designing "State Zero" automated systems and leading high-concurrency war room operations during massive live events (Carrera Bonafont marathon).
  • Architecture & Microservices (Pilot Solution): Spearheading monolith-to-microservices migrations and zero-downtime database release strategies.
  • Enterprise DevOps & Multi-Cloud (EY, Charles Taylor, Aon, HR Acuity & Jack Henry): Automating ~7,000 cloud subscriptions across 2,500 enterprise clients, engineering reusable Terraform IaC modules, migrating ADO to GitHub Actions, and designing ArgoCD GitOps workflows.

Spanish: Native English: Fluent Professional Chinese: Learning Hobby

📜 Technical Certifications & Foundations

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals   HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002)

Certified knowledge & continuous hands-on enterprise practice. Click badges to verify on Credly.

🌲 Career Timeline Tree (20+ Years Journey)

Career Progression Timeline (1998-Present): Jack Henry (DevOps Engineer, Nov 2025–Present), HR Acuity (DevOps Engineer, Dec 2023–Nov 2025), Aon (DevOps Engineer, Dec 2022–Dec 2023), Charles Taylor InsureTech (DevOps Engineer, Jun 2021–Dec 2022), EY / Ernst & Young (DevOps Engineer, Jun 2018–Jun 2021), Pilot Solution (DevOps / Sysadmin, Feb 2016–Jun 2018), GODisruptive (Developer / Sysadmin, Mar 2012–Nov 2015), NGV Communications (Developer, Jun 2005–Feb 2009), Soluciones Austral (Responsable / Tech Lead, Jun 2001–Present), Messe Frankfurt Argentina (Developer, Dec 1998–Jun 2001)

🛠️ Tech Ecosystem

Tech Ecosystem: Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm), IaC & CI/CD (Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), Scripting & Databases (Bash, Python, PowerShell, PostgreSQL, SQL, Linux)

📡 Connect & Work Together

LinkedIn Profile locoxella   Email leon@solucionesaustral.com   Website solucionesaustral.com



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📚 DevOps & Engineering Reading Showcase

DevOps Reading Showcase: 1. The Phoenix Project (Gene Kim & Kevin Behr), 2. The Goal (Eliyahu Goldratt), 3. The Unicorn Project (Gene Kim), 4. The DevOps Handbook (Gene Kim & Jez Humble)

📊 GitHub Activity & Metrics

GitHub Metrics and Telemetry: 180+ Repositories Maintained, Public Repos: 18, Multi-Cloud Stack, Top Languages: Python, Shell, PowerShell, JavaScript, Tape



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