Summary
Armando Cerna is a Head of SRE based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience designing and operating high-traffic, production-grade systems. He specializes in Kubernetes-driven platforms—migrating legacy workloads, building on-demand staging (Instastage), and creating Go-based CI/CD tooling to streamline developer workflows and maintain parity with production. As primary on-call lead he pairs hands-on incident response with observability expertise across Datadog, NewRelic, Splunk and PagerDuty, and he’s implemented provisioning and configuration at scale using Ansible. He’s experienced in training teams on container and Kubernetes best practices and has a track record of translating complex operational needs into practical developer-facing tools. An understated strength is his focus on developer experience: enabling git-triggered environments and local Kubernetes workflows to reduce friction between engineering and production.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Information Systems, Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Information Systems at ITT Technical Institute-Sylmar