Summary
Cristian Cardas is a Senior DevSecOps Engineer based in Málaga with 8 years of experience building reliable, automated cloud-native platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. He has led devops and SRE transformations at Vodafone—designing observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Datadog, standardizing CI with GitLab CI/Terragrunt and migrating pipelines to GitHub Actions—while serving as his team’s Security Champion. At Khaos Research he combined research and engineering to lead applied ML and remote-sensing projects for crop modeling and campus green-area traceability, reflecting his dual masters-level background in Software Engineering and AI. Now at Hastee (A Zellis Company) he continues to bridge security, reliability and automation in production systems, with a practical curiosity for machine learning that informs his infrastructure work.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Universidad de Málaga