Andres Rodriguez
Director Of Engineering at Chainguard
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndres Rodriguez is a Director of Engineering with 15 years of experience leading distributed infrastructure teams and open source projects across Canonical, Elastic, and Chainguard. He combines hands-on expertise in cloud and high-availability systems (Ubuntu Server, MAAS, Pacemaker) with strong people and product management skills, driving CI/CD and release practices at scale. At Elastic he led engineering teams and later transitioned to senior leadership roles at Chainguard, now overseeing engineering strategy and delivery. An active open source contributor, he’s improved CI/CD and Docker build tooling for the widely used Logstash project, showing a knack for making complex deployment workflows more reliable. Based in Miami, he pairs technical depth—backed by MS degrees in Engineering Management and Telecommunications—with a pragmatic focus on shipping secure, production-ready infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Systems Engineering, Engineer, Systems Engineering at Universidad Católica de Santa MaríaCisco Certified Network Associate Training Program, Cisco Certified Network Associate Training Program at Universidad Católica San PabloMicrosoft Certified IT Professional: Server Admin, Microsoft Certified Training Course, Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Server Admin, Microsoft Certified Training Course at New HorizonsMaster of Science (M.S.), Engineering Management, Master of Science (M.S.), Engineering Management at Florida International University
Github Skills (10)
packaging10
bash10
docker10
dockers10
build-automation10
cicd10
java5
jruby5
javas5
etl-framework4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/logstash
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Logstash - transport and process your logs, events, or other data
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:202 reviews, 160 commits, 251 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Andres primarily contributed to the Logstash project by modifying build and deployment scripts, focusing on the Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) process. Their work involved enhancing Docker image creation, specifically addressing environment variable handling and Docker image building using DRA (Docker Release Automation) scripts. They also made changes to packaging scripts, handling upgrades, and file permissions for different package installation types (Debian, RPM, etc.).
eventsstreamingloggingetl-frameworklogstash
roaksoax/wolfi-os
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Main package repository for production Wolfi images
Contributions:110 pushes, 26 branches in 6 months
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