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Ricardo Pellecer

@ricardopellecer

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Platform Engineer specializing in GitOps, SRE, and Azure/GCP automation for reliable Kubernetes delivery.

Guatemala

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a platform/DevOps role where I can build Internal Developer Platforms, grow GitOps + SRE practices, improve observability and reliability, and optimize performance and cloud costs through automation and reusable infrastructure.

I’m a Platform Engineer with 4 years of experience building Internal Developer Platforms, “golden paths,” and self-service workflows that replace ticket-driven infrastructure requests. I focus on GitOps, SRE practices, and production-ready architecture to improve reliability while reducing cost and automating repeatable delivery.

Across my roles at Apex Global Mobility and Tigo Guatemala, I’ve led platform adoption across engineering teams, implemented GitOps at scale with ArgoCD, and strengthened observability using OpenTelemetry and Datadog. I’ve also delivered major improvements through CI/CD optimization, cloud migration (Azure to GCP), Kubernetes secrets management, and SLO/SLI frameworks for dependable operations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Platform Engineer - Apex

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Grupo Mariposa

May 2026 - Present (2 months)

Built and evolved Grupo Mariposa’s Internal Developer Platform on Port, replacing ticket-driven infrastructure requests with self-service catalog and golden paths. Established reliability and security foundations including SLA/SLO/SLI, centralized secrets delivery, standardized service creation, and self-service deployment actions.

Port Internal Developer Platform Golden Paths SLA External Secrets Operator Azure Key Vault Kubernetes Databricks Microservices MongoDB Atlas CI CD Wiring Observability

Senior DevOps Engineer - Apex

Grupo Mariposa

Dec 2024 - May 2026 (1 year 5 months)

Acted as Technical Lead for DevOps and Platform Engineering initiatives supporting large-scale microservices and event-driven systems on Kubernetes. Led cloud migration, implemented GitOps and observability, delivered platform foundations (IDP/service catalog), and ran proofs of concept for canary and autoscaling approaches.

Terraform Azure Google Cloud Platform Kubernetes ArgoCD GitOps OpenTelemetry Datadog Istio KEDA Crossplane HPA AutoScaling IDP

DevOps Engineer - Apex

Grupo Mariposa

Apr 2024 - Dec 2024 (8 months)

Managed Databricks platform governance and optimized Databricks ETL workloads, while troubleshooting production issues in Kubernetes environments. Improved delivery performance by redesigning CI/CD pipelines and added automated security/quality checks and image publishing.

Databricks Unity Catalog Kubernetes ETL Root Cause Analysis GitHub Actions CI CD Pipelines Trivy Gitleaks SonarQube Junit JaCoCo Docker Argo CD Image Updater Bitrise

Senior Software Engineer - B2B

Tigo Guatemala

Nov 2022 - Apr 2024 (1 year 5 months)

Deployed and managed applications on Kubernetes using CI/CD pipelines and GitOps. Built telecom automation applications with ONAP to reduce time-to-feasibility and automate large-scale networking device configuration and service provisioning.

Kubernetes CI CD GitOps Network Device Configuration Automated Provisioning

Software Developer Intern - B2B

Tigo Guatemala

Jul 2022 - Nov 2022 (4 months)

Software Developer Intern at B2B Tigo Guatemala.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Universidad del Valle de Guatemala

Electronics engineering, Electronics Engineering

2019 - 2023

Grade: Summa Cum Laude; Valedictorian

Electronics engineering program at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (Summa Cum Laude; Valedictorian). Thesis: Automated IP Transit balancing of a regional ISP with ONAP and Kentik (Honorable Mention).