Alex Ruiz

Alex Ruiz is an experienced hands-on SRE & DevOps/Cloud Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer with expertise in Scalability, Cloud Engineering, Observability, Serverless, Infrastructure as Code, and Cloud-native architectures.

With over 10 years of experience in digital retail and e-Commerce, Alex has led global SRE/DevOps teams, designed distributed cloud-native architectures, and managed budgets and stakeholder negotiations.

His interests lie in Amazon Web Services, large-scale distributed system design, APM, automation, scalability, observability, and Serverless/Event-driven architectures like MACH, DDD, and DOMA.

Alex's style is direct, tech-agnostic, hands-on, and pragmatic. He enjoys reading philosophy, politics, society, and history, maintaining a high reading rate of about 3 books per month.

He excels in roles such as Hands-on EM, Principal Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Digital Architect, and Head of Infrastructure/Cloud/DevOps, with skills in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Observability, SRE, CDN/WAF, various programming languages, Infrastructure as Code, Serverless, Orchestration, and APM & observability tools.

His proficiency spans platforms like Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform and tools including GitLab CICD, GitHub actions, Drone, CircleCI, Cloudflare, Akamai, Cloudfront, Terraform, Cloudformation, Serverless Framework, AWS Lambda, Fargate, GCP Functions, Azure Functions, ECS, ECS Fargate, Container services, AKS, AppDynamics, New Relic, Google StackDriver, Prometheus, ELK, DataDog, Instana APM, AWS Cloudwatch, and E-Commerce suites like IBM Watson Commerce and ATG Oracle.