Summary
Alejandro Vallecilla is a Mission Critical Engineer based in Amsterdam with about a decade of hands-on experience building and operating resilient cloud-native systems. He combines deep AWS infrastructure design and automation skills (CloudFormation, Terraform, Lambda, ECS, RDS, VPC) with practical CI/CD and release engineering using GoCD, Jenkins Pipelines and container orchestration across Mesos/DCOS and ECS. Comfortable coding automation in Python, Ruby, Bash, Groovy and Java, he has designed provisioning SaaS and production-grade deployment tooling as well as custom service-discovery and monitoring solutions with Splunk, Grafana and ELK. His background spans full-stack development, DevOps practice-building and co-founding a startup, giving him a pragmatic blend of developer empathy and operations rigor. Colleagues describe him as a DevOps evangelist who thrives on making complex, distributed systems predictable and repeatable in production.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Systems and Informatic Engineer Computer Engineering, Systems and Informatic Engineer Computer Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Spanish, English