Christopher Mendoza
AWS Platform Engineer
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About
Head of DevOps Engineering with 14+ years of experience leading cloud engineering and DevOps initiatives that drive business growth. Specializing in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, and AWS-native architectures to create scalable, secure, and cost-efficient solutions. Passionate about aligning technology with business goals to build resilient, scalable, and future-proof infrastructures that support innovation and growth.
Experience
Cloud Engineering: Designing and deploying scalable AWS infrastructure using services like ECS, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS (Aurora MySQL), and IAM. Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform & Terragrunt).
CI/CD & Automation: Implementing automated deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions and Docker. Skilled in using DevContainers for standardized development environments.
Monitoring & Observability: Experience with Nagios, log analysis, and system health monitoring.
Kubernetes & Containers: Proficient in Kubernetes (including local dev via Minikube and MicroK8s), Docker, and container orchestration best practices.
Security & Performance: Handling sensitive workloads, optimizing cloud costs, and maintaining security best practices.
