SAUL SALAZAR
Sr. DevOps Engineer & SRE
Summary

10+ years in software development and distributed systems. Specialized in Cloud Infrastructure, GitOps, and SRE practices. Proven track record leading cross-functional teams in Fintech, enterprise aviation, and consulting. Passionate about containers, automation, least-privilege security, and mentoring engineers.

Experience
GBM.com — Brokerage House 2023 – Present
Sr. DevOps Engineer / SRE & Team Lead
  • Full AWS stack: ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, SQS/SNS
  • Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, Automation, Least Privilege practices
  • Cross Collaboration across engineering teams with Self Service project
  • Reduce Operation tickets with GitHub Actions
AWS CloudFormation Docker Serverless GitOps CodePipeline .NET
Clip.mx — Fintech Unicorn 2021 – 2023
Sr. DevOps Engineer / SRE & Team Lead
  • Payments & VISA team — resolved critical P1 incidents, PCI DSS / AMEX / VISA compliance
  • AWS: ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, SQS/SNS, SAM, ECR, CodePipeline
AWS ECS Python RabbitMQ PCI DSS Docker
Chad Systems — Consulting 2020 – 2021
Sr. DevOps Engineer / SRE & Team Lead
  • AWS solutions across analytics, comms, eCommerce & insurance
  • Built REST API generator with JWT, RBAC, automated testing
KubernetesTerraformGitLab CIPrometheusMongoDB
Southwest Airlines — Aviation 2019 – 2020
Infrastructure Engineer / DevOps Architect
  • CI/CD for 300+ customer teams; led a team of 5 — Kubernetes, OpenShift, Jenkins, Terraform
  • Analytics system aggregating metrics from Jenkins, BitBucket, SonarQube, Nexus
KubernetesOpenShiftJenkinsAnsible
Softtek — Enterprise IT 2015 – 2019
Sr. Software Engineer & Team Lead · Fullstack Instructor
  • Leader of 10 devs; built 15+ backends, webapps, mobile & enterprise portals
  • First instructor at Codellege — Node.js, Docker & DevOps workshops
Node.jsAWSDockerVueAgile
Interclan ISP 2011 – 2015
Web Developer & Linux SysAdmin
  • Linux server maintenance (Debian & RedHat), bare-metal & VMware virtualization
LinuxnginxApacheVMware