Fernando Duran
Founder at SadServers
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Duran is a founder and senior infrastructure engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems for SaaS startups in security, AI, and fintech. He blends hands-on DevOps/SRE work with team leadership, having been the first SRE hire at two high-growth companies and leading DevOps teams through architecture, migrations, and cost-saving initiatives. Creator of SadServers.com, he turns operational pain points into productized learning experiences for troubleshooting Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes on real servers. Comfortable as an individual contributor or fractional Head of DevOps/Infra/SRE, he’s experienced with GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and production incident management across distributed time zones. Notably, he’s led migrations of CI tooling and entire city services to the cloud, and has repeatedly driven “automate everything” culture and measurable operational improvements.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
University of SevilleMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Louisville
English, Spanish
Github Skills (53)
linux10
devops10
kafka9
redpanda9
event-driven9
streaming9
stream-processing9
cpp9
microservices8
storage-engine8
seastar8
go8
rabbitmq-cluster8
kubernetes8
streaming-data8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SadServers/sadservers
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
SadServers: Linux & DevOps Troubleshooting Scenarios SaaS
Contributions:1 review, 15 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
devopslinuxsre-infratroubleshooting
fduran/boxmetric
Dec 2011 - May 2014
Contributions:31 commits in 2 years 4 months
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