Joel Vasallo

Joel Vasallo is an enthusiastic and driven engineer in the DevOps/SRE space with a passion for Open Source and Open Culture. He is dedicated to learning, building, sharing, and growing both professionally and through community efforts. Joel proudly organizes the Google Developer Group in Chicago and has been a speaker at various notable conferences. With experience as a DevOps and Tooling Engineer, he has now transitioned into a managerial role. His expertise covers a wide range of domains from architecture to delivery to security. Joel has managed mutable and immutable production workloads using automation tools, and is proficient in Bash, Python, Groovy, and Go programming languages. He utilizes Git for source control, Jenkins and GitlabCI for continuous integration, and GitlabCI and Spinnaker for continuous delivery. Having worked extensively in AWS and GCP for over 5 years, he is well-versed in tools like Packer, Ansible, and Terraform as part of the developer toolchain. Furthermore, Joel is a strong advocate, user, and contributor to open source projects. Currently, he is not seeking new job opportunities.