Alvaro Perez-shirley
Engineering Manager at VMware
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlvaro Perez-shirley is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native database services and platform tooling, currently leading VMware Tanzu SQL with Postgres for Kubernetes from Portland, OR. He moved from hands-on backend and DBaaS roles—owning MySQL and Postgres platforms at Pivotal/VMware and Pact—to managing teams that deliver Operators, CRDs, and stateful services on Kubernetes. His background spans virtualized QA tooling at Intel, mobile API backends on Play/EC2, and Rails apps on Heroku, giving him a rare full-stack perspective from VM-level infra to cloud-native orchestration. A contributor to Cloud Foundry acceptance tests, he combines strong DevOps instincts with product ownership and database administration experience. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex platform requirements into reliable, production-ready automation and testing.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Systems Engineering, A, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Systems Engineering, A at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, A.C.
Spanish, English, Italian
Github Skills (9)
test-framework10
go10
web-deploy10
cloud-foundry10
web-deployment10
testing10
cicd9
automation9
automations9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cf-acceptance-tests
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
CF Acceptance tests
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alvaro primarily contributed to the cloudfoundry/cf-acceptance-tests repository by modifying test code and configurations related to acceptance testing. Their work involved refactoring and improving tests, including adjustments to the way buildpacks are tested, as well as merging and organizing test suites. The user also made infrastructure-related changes, incorporating new configuration properties and updating test helper dependencies. These changes aimed to enhance testing capabilities and streamline the CI/CD process.
testingacceptance-testscff-wg-app-runtime-deploymentsacceptance
APShirley/resume
Sep 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 push in 3 years 10 months
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