Álvaro Medina
Cloud Architect at Red Hat
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolÁvaro Medina is a Cloud Architect with 11 years of experience helping enterprises modernize applications and infrastructure using Kubernetes and OpenShift. At Red Hat he has guided cross-industry customers through DevOps/GitOps transformations, observability, CI/CD and caching strategies, and now focuses on operationalizing AI from prototype to production with RHOAI, vLLM, Kubeflow and related open-source projects. He combines a telecom engineering background and international experience (Spain, Germany, Oxford collaboration) with hands-on delivery—designing platforms, running workshops, and mentoring a team of Data Grid consultants for EMEA. Known for bridging developer workflows and platform reliability, he architected GitOps pipelines with Tekton, ArgoCD and GitHub Actions and champions robust observability and tracing. His academic work includes top-graded theses and a cross-border 5G modelling collaboration with the University of Oxford, reflecting both theoretical rigor and practical systems focus. Fluent in Spanish and English, he brings a customer-centric, trainer mindset that accelerates adoption of complex open-source stacks.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
San Agustin SchoolMaster in Computer Hardware/Software Engineering, Telecomunications, Master in Computer Hardware/Software Engineering, Telecomunications at University of StuttgartMáster Universitario en Ingeniería de Telecomunicación, Telecomunications, Máster Universitario en Ingeniería de Telecomunicación, Telecomunications at Universidad Politécnica de MadridMáster in Business Analytics & Big Data, Data Processing and Data Processing Technology/Technician, Máster in Business Analytics & Big Data, Data Processing and Data Processing Technology/Technician at IMF Smart EducationEarly Careers OPEN Programme, Educational Leadership and Administration, General, Early Careers OPEN Programme, Educational Leadership and Administration, General at The Discovery Way
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (137)
proxmox10
monitoring9
kubernetes-operator9
datasources9
ibm-cloud9
vsphere9
hat9
vms9
ovirt9
operator9
openshift-v49
grid9
libvirt9
hetzner-cloud9
cuelang9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
alvarolop/jmeter-on-ocp
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
This repository helps you to deploy the latest version of JMeter on Openshift taking advantage of RH UBI images and Openshift resources.
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 1 year 4 months
jmeteropenshiftkubernetesubiadvantage
alvarolop/quarkus-observability-app
May 2023 - Mar 2025
This application was created to showcase how to configure Logging, Metrics, and Tracing in a Quarkus and collect and manage them using the supported infrastructure of Openshift
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 225 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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