Emilio Castro

Built the DevOps curriculum from scratch, authored lab exercises and documentation, and delivered live workshops. Teach AWS and cloud-native architecture to engineers entering the field.

Provides 1:1 instruction on Python automation and Linux for working IT professionals. Guides students through real-world automation projects and CI/CD pipelines.

Migrated the ingress layer from NGINX Ingress Controller to kgateway across three GKE environments. Defined p95 successful requests/min as the SLI for backend availability with a 97% SLO.

Built the Azure foundation for an AI-focused product from scratch, including Data Lakes, AI Foundry, and MLOps pipelines. Founded the DevOps/SRE guild and trained over 50 engineers, improving operational response times by 60%.

Built and tuned Maven pipelines in Jenkins for large-scale Java projects. Automated RHEL provisioning with Kickstart and maintained 99.9% system availability with custom Prometheus/Grafana alerting.

Implemented GitOps with ArgoCD across 20+ EKS clusters and reduced CI/CD pipeline runtime from 60+ minutes to 16 minutes. Led zero-downtime database upgrades using Terraform and AWS DMS.

Configured Spinnaker for blue/green deployments in production and evaluated canary deployments. Managed full GCP infrastructure lifecycle using Terraform.

Managed infrastructure for 1000+ game servers on EA Gameplay Services, maintaining low-latency and high-availability. Led incident response and automated ops work with Python.

Pursuing a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Systems, currently in progress.

Completed the AWS Partner: Technical Accreditation certification.

Earned an English proficiency certification at the C2 (Fluent) level.