Summary
Carlo Cruz is a Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and automating cloud infrastructure, currently focused on reliability at balena. A certified AWS Solutions Architect and SysOps Administrator, he has driven large migrations to server-less and auto-scaling architectures, slashed provisioning time with CloudFormation, and cut costs using spot instances and automation. Comfortable coding in Python and shell, he champions infrastructure-as-code, orchestration (Puppet, Cloud-Init), and CI/CD to accelerate delivery and reduce human error. He rose through operations roles at eScience, standardizing setups to let a small team manage rapidly growing fleets of servers. Known for learning by untangling messy code and practical experimentation, he combines pragmatic problem-solving with a bias for tooling that scales. Based in Pasay, Philippines, he brings a product-minded ops approach forged by on-the-job mentorship and continuous exploration of emerging technologies.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at Mapua Institute of Technology
English, Filipino