Andrés Amado
Senior Systems Engineer (Senior DevOps Data Engineer)
Bogota, Colombia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrés Amado is a pragmatic, polyglot Senior Systems Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms, driving automation, and improving developer experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure. He specializes in platform architecture, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi), CI/CD and GitOps practices, and software development in Java, Python, Go and Groovy, blending SRE principles with event-driven microservices. Andrés has led DevOps and platform teams at companies ranging from startups to global consultancies like EPAM and Globant, consistently delivering scalable, secure, and observable systems using Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry. Known as a non-dogmatic, self-starting engineer, he focuses on reducing operational friction through immutable infrastructure and developer-centric tooling. Based in Bogotá, he pairs technical leadership with active hands-on implementation and maintains an open-source presence on GitHub/GitLab.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Systems Engineer Software Engineering, Computer Systems Engineer Software Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Spanish, Portuguese, English
Github Skills (35)
testing9
terraform9
github-api9
packer9
docker8
automated-tests8
testing-library8
aws8
terraform-provider8
devops7
golang7
terratest7
github7
infrastructure6
prototyping6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
acactown/acactown
Sep 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
acactown/JProperties-Manager
Oct 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:11 commits in 2 days
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