Summary
Armando Vega is a pragmatic infrastructure and edge engineering leader with 12+ years building and operating large-scale private clouds, Kubernetes runtimes, and traffic management platforms across multi-region environments. He blends deep GNU/Linux and networking expertise—spanning Ceph, OpenStack, Kubernetes, HAProxy/nginx, and Terraform—with hands-on software experience in Python, C, PHP and embedded systems. As a people manager and incident-driven operator, he has led teams that supported tens of thousands of VMs and systems handling billions of daily requests, while improving CI/CD, observability and automation. A long-time FOSS advocate, conference volunteer and author of multiple open-source projects, he emphasizes clear documentation and reproducible infrastructure. Based in Amsterdam, he brings a rare mix of low-level systems craftsmanship and strategic platform leadership that keeps complex real‑time traffic flowing reliably.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Gimnazija Karlovac
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Cisco Networking Academy
Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Computer Science at Faculty of Engineering Rijeka
Bacc. inf. Informatics, Bacc. inf. Informatics at Polytechnic of Rijeka
English, German, Dutch