Summary
Berenice Cotero is a Sr. Cloud Security Engineer and DevOps specialist with 10+ years building reliable, scalable AWS infrastructure and automation for large enterprises like Comcast, Capital One, and Clarivate. She combines deep hands-on expertise in CloudFormation, Terraform, Docker/ECS, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management (Chef/Ansible) with a strong security and networking focus (VPC, IAM, ELB). A lifelong Unix power-user with 15+ years of CLI experience, she programs across Bash, Python, Ruby, JavaScript and even C++, and holds an AWS Developer Associate certification since 2016. Her background in biophysics and data science informs a quantitative, test-driven approach—she has applied statistical modelling and Monte Carlo simulation in prior research roles. Active in open source (Dat-Jawn) and maintaining public Docker and GitHub repositories, she thrives on refactoring mutable infrastructure into repeatable, secure pipelines and enjoys tackling challenging, high-impact projects.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
Ph.D., Biophysics, Ph.D., Biophysics at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French