Summary
Alejandro Souto is a seasoned backend engineer and DevOps practitioner with 14 years of experience delivering automation-first solutions for on-premise and cloud environments. He specializes in infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD—building GitLab and Jenkins pipelines, Ansible recipes, Helm charts, and S2I-based Docker images—often bridging development and operations for microservices and real-time trading systems. Alejandro has led large platform initiatives such as an OpenShift rollout for Buenos Aires city government and implemented logging and high-availability stacks (ELK, Kafka) for production environments. Comfortable across Python/Django, Java, and container ecosystems, he leans toward programmable DevOps (automation, recipes, tests) rather than raw infrastructure management. Based in Argentina, he now freelances, bringing practical experience migrating apps between linode, AWS and on-prem clusters and a pragmatic focus on testable, repeatable deployments. An early-career background in varied government and enterprise systems gives him a knack for integrating heterogeneous technologies into cohesive delivery pipelines.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer