Juan Pablo Caivano

System's Engineer based in Córdoba, AR. I used to be a Unix/Linux System administrator, able to manage databases and application servers, writing code with shell scripting, Python and Ruby. Then I focused my career to master Cloud, Linux Containers, Kubernetes and Automation, so I became a DevOps. My Specialties: IT architecture, High Availability, Open Source solutions.

Work Experience

Bitsight

Staff DevOps Engineer

2022 - Today

Remote

My journey in Bitsight started sharing our knowledge and working into the unification of services, teams and workflows after an acquisition. I migrated code, infrastructure and services, trained people, and worked into the future roadmap of the company. I worked with Business Intelligence, Data Science, Security, Thread Modeling and FinOps teams into automation and growing into the DevOps mindset.

Work Experience

ThirdPartyTrust

Sr DevOps

2020 - 2022

Remote

I joined 3pt to design and implement the infrastructure for the whole company to face growing, creating SOC 2 compliance infrastructure based on Binbash Leverage architecture using IaC, implementing an auto scalable solution with Kubernetes for microservices, which with Flux Gitops and using an umbrella chart solution designed with the team, let us automate deployments just using git.

I also introduced security tools to move security to the left.

Work Experience

3XM Group

DevOps / Cloud Principal Architect

2018 - 2020

Córdoba, Argentina

I designed architectural solutions for our clients, providing cutting-edge solutions with a cloud agnostic approach. I defined the Career Paths of our DevOps team, and made the area grow. I worked into pre-sales projects. I created internal tools to define standards for our service.

Work Experience

3XM Group

Account Manager

2018 - 2018

Córdoba, Argentina

I managed a 20 persons team of DevOps, Devs, QA, and Security. I created and managed a team of DevSecOps. I was in charge of discovering our client needs and provide technical and business solutions.

Work Experience

3XM Group

DevOps Engineer

2017 - 2018

Córdoba, Argentina

I was in charge of transform the culture of our clients, increasing communication, define new and better pipelines for CI/CD, build environments on demand using IaC, helping with the adoption of Container’s Orchestration tools and Cloud solutions to our clients.

Work Experience

Globant

Sysadmin Engineer Sr. Adv.

2017 - 2017

Córdoba, Argentina

As Devops in Naranja, I was in charge of transmitting Devops culture to the organization, which I have led in the adoption of different tools, such as Gitlab, Docker, k8s, Continuous Integration. I also implemented pipelines for code integration between different suppliers.

Work Experience

Globant

Sysadmin Engineer Senior

2017 - 2017

Córdoba, Argentina

As a Sysadmin, I migrated an important financial client’s infrastructure from Power6 to Power8 (AIX under LPAR) which then I supported. I trained people on Configuration Management Tools (Chef), Infra Automation (Terraform) and CD/CI implementations.

Work Experience

Globant

Sysadmin Engineer Senior

2016 – 2017

Córdoba, Argentina

As a DevOps, I had to design an infrastructure solution to a social commerce startup, integrating the Development cycle on a CI flow (Bamboo), using Infrastructure as a Code’s approach for the environments (AWS + chef-provisioning + chef).

Work Experience

Hewlett Packard

UNIX Infrastructure Specialist

2010 – 2016

Córdoba, Argentina

I had to manage, set up and configure Unix/Linux operating systems for leverage clients. Solving daily incidents, taking part on new projects, managing resource provisioning, customizing OS services, on a wide flavor of systems.

Work Experience

Electronic Data Systems

UNIX Infrastructure Analyst

2007 - 2010

Córdoba, Argentina

First and Second level of Unix administration for accounts of Brasil (TAM, Telefonica, VALE, Abril, Braskem), Chile (VTR) and Argentina (Arcos Dorados, Embotelladora Andina) working on incidents, imacs (requirements), and changes (rfc).

Work Experience

Papelera General República

Computer and Network Technician

2006

Córdoba, Argentina

Network, Workstation and Server Installation and Maintenance.

Work Experience

Novo (Freelance project)

Java Development

2006

Córdoba, Argentina

System’s Design and Implementation

Work Experience

Freelance

Computer and Network Technician

2003 - 2005

Córdoba, Argentina

Network and Server design, building and maintenance mainly to small ISP, around Argentina. Network, Server and Desktop maintenance for Internet Cafes.

Community

I belong to the following communities

Talks and communities

I like to talk with the communities

Rewards

  • One Young World Ambassador 2010, Selected to represent HP Argentina as an Ambassador at One Young World , London.

  • HP Excellence Award 2010

Skills

  • ITIL
  • Infrastructure
  • Virtualization
  • GNU/Linux (various flavors)
  • HP-UX (11.23 & 11.31)
  • AIX (6.2)
  • Solaris 10 (x86 and SPARC)
  • Clustering (Service Guard, RedHat Cluster Suite)
  • BCV with Raid Manager
  • OpenStack Fundamentals
  • Kanban

Skills

  • Cloud (AWS, DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud, GCP)
  • Configuration Managment (Chef, Ansible)
  • Continuous Integration (Bamboon,Jenkins,Gitlab-ci,Tekton)
  • Infrastructure Automation (Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane)
  • Containers (Docker, LXD, podman)
  • Kubernetes
  • GitOps (ArgoCD, FluxCD)

Education

Instituto Universitario Aeronáutico

Systems Engineering

2003 - 2006 (Studying) / 2017 (Thesis)

Córdoba, Argentina

I have a degree in Systems Engineering, my thesis was about Infrastructure as Code, an Implementation to Support Microservices Architecture.

Certifications

  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator, Dec 2014, Lic: 140-242-439

  • Red Hat Certified Engineer, Dec 2014, Lic: 140-242-439

Courses

  • HP BladeSystem Admin (HE643S and HE646S)
  • OpenStack Foundations (H6C68S)
  • HP-UX System and Network Administration for Experienced UNIX System Administrators (H5875S)
  • HP CloudSystem Foundation (H4C05)

Languages

  • Spanish (Native)
  • English
  • Portuguese