Summary
Claudio Canales is a DevOps and cloud engineer with 10 years of experience who blends hands-on SRE and cloud automation expertise with teaching as an Instructor Associate at General Assembly. He has led large-scale migrations and managed hundreds of Kubernetes clusters across AWS, GCP, and Azure, driving Terraform-led infrastructure changes and CI/CD improvements at companies like VMware and Seegrid. A first-generation college graduate and MSCS holder, he built his career overcoming resource constraints and now helps Latin American engineers migrate to the U.S. through his site VenaUSA. Claudio also experiments building AI chatbots on Replit with OpenAI and holds multi-cloud and Kubernetes certifications, reflecting a mix of production rigor and applied learning. Based in Lehi, Utah, he offers a rare combination of operational depth, teaching ability, and immigrant-driven resilience.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Civil Informático Ciencias de la Ingenieria, Ingeniero Civil Informático Ciencias de la Ingenieria at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Maharishi International University
English, Spanish, Portuguese