Abel Lopez
SRE Manager at Cisco
Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbel Lopez is an SRE Manager with 14 years of experience building and automating large-scale Unix and cloud infrastructures, currently leading reliability for Cisco Secure Access. He combines deep systems engineering—spanning OpenStack, IaaS, virtualization, capacity planning, and security hardening—with people leadership and mentoring. Abel has a strong track record of standardizing operations across enterprises, from integrating publishing units to centralizing authentication and patch management. As an active DevOps contributor, he improved Ansible Molecule’s Vagrant support and clarified diskimage-builder documentation, reflecting a focus on reproducible, versioned infrastructure. Based in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, he brings pragmatic automation skills (Chef, Puppet, Ansible) and a history of moving legacy systems into virtualized, maintainable platforms. He’s notable for blending hands-on engineering with documentation and community contributions that make complex tooling easier to adopt.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems at DeVry Institute of Technology, Southern CaliforniaB.S. Computer Information Systems, B.S. Computer Information Systems at DeVry University
Spanish, python
Github Skills (15)
rhel10
configuration-management10
centos10
ansible-galaxy10
rs10
vagrant10
image10
documentation10
ansible10
testing9
devtools9
python9
bash9
openstack8
test-framework8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/diskimage-builder
Aug 2014 - Apr 2016
Image building tools for OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer / DevOps Engineer
Technical Writer / DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Abel contributed to the documentation and configuration aspects of the OpenStack diskimage-builder project. They updated README files and user guides, focusing on explaining features like byte-to-inode ratios, third-party elements, and overall image building processes. They also made changes to configuration files related to CentOS and RHEL environments, ensuring compatibility with different distributions and resolving issues related to image building dependencies, indicating they are likely working on DevOps related configurations.
opendevopenstack
ansible/molecule
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
Molecule aids in the development and testing of Ansible content: collections, playbooks and roles
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Abel focused on enhancing the Molecule project's support for Vagrant, a tool for managing and provisioning virtual machines. They added features like Vagrant box versioning, enabling users to specify and manage the versions of Vagrant boxes used in their development environments. Additionally, the user updated documentation and example configurations to improve usability and clarify versioning usage. The contributions included modifying templates and configuration files, emphasizing the integration of the project with the Vagrant ecosystem.
ansible-rolespythontesting-frameworktestingansible
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