Gerardo Lucero

Standardized secure CI/CD across 1,200+ repositories and 3,000+ build artifacts across 15+ stacks, using reusable GitHub Actions libraries with SAST, DAST, policy-as-code, and secret management. Implemented container hardening, dependency scanning, and golden path templates to support CNBV/Banxico regulatory requirements and automated audit evidence generation.

Founded an architecture and security governance model with a 5-level maturity matrix (8 dimensions) adopted by 7+ engineering teams. Built a Kubernetes Internal Developer Platform with golden paths, self-service deployments, and integrated security controls, and led an OpenShift migration while coaching 7+ teams.

Coordinated 3 squads delivering customer-facing and internal systems across 100+ retail stores. Implemented Grafana observability to shift incident detection from reactive to proactive and reduce critical recovery time.

Developed an event-driven credit origination platform on Kafka with state machines across 3 business applications, processing 200M payment transactions in a quarter. Optimized collections with Spark + Python to run 1M batch jobs in 40 seconds (replacing an 8-hour manual overnight process) and supported payment flows including Oxxo, OpenPay, card, STP, and 1B+ MXN direct debits.

Built and led development of a real-time car rental and reservation system with dynamic pricing and payment workflows. Managed delivery from requirements through implementation and supported end-to-end system behavior for real-time transactions.

Completed a Diploma in Artificial Intelligence at Universidad del Valle de México from 2022 to 2023.

Earned a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de La Paz from 2012 to 2017.

Completed Kafka Summit 2023 focused on DevSecOps with solutions architecture in London with Confluent.