Summary
Alejandro Pereira is a Site Reliability Engineer and final-year Computer Engineering student from Costa Rica with nine years of practical experience building reliable backends, automation, and infrastructure. He has delivered production systems using Django, PostgreSQL and AWS, and now applies SRE practices at IBM while bringing deep hands-on experience with bare-metal tooling like Yocto, C, and FPGA platforms. Alejandro also bridges systems work and AI research鈥攈aving fine-tuned Mixtral 8x7B for closed-domain QA generation and optimized training with 4-bit quantization and LoRA to cut memory and time. A passionate open-source and Linux enthusiast, he pairs scripting skills in Bash/Python with a pragmatic focus on CI/CD and observability. Colleagues describe him as a fast learner who seeks roles where he can absorb expertise from seasoned engineers while contributing low-level systems insight.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Tecnol贸gico de Costa Rica
English, Spanish