Gaston Ramas
Senior Engineering Manager at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolGaston Ramas is a hands-on senior engineering manager with 11 years of experience specializing in site reliability and cloud infrastructure, now based in Cupertino. He has built and led platform and SRE teams at high-profile companies including Apple, Zipline, WeWork, and now Rivian/Volkswagen Group Technologies, driving migrations to Kubernetes, managed databases, and event platforms. Gaston excels at turning fragmented operations into self-service platforms that scale—at WeWork he supported 200 engineers and 2000+ services, and at Zipline he founded their first platform engineering org. He combines technical depth with cross-functional program leadership, partnering with Legal, GRC and InfoSec to operationalize compliance and security. Known for mentoring and coaching (Plato) and for migrating teams to modern CI/CD and cloud-native practices, he brings both startup agility and enterprise rigor. A former CTO and early systems engineer, he pairs practical infrastructure instincts with a knack for organizational change.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Analista en inform'atica, Analista en inform'atica at Universidad de la EmpresaUniversidad ORT UruguayIndustrial cooling systems engineering, Industrial cooling systems engineering at EUCIFirst Aids Operator, First Aids Operator at Cruz Roja Uruguaya
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (93)
multiple-machines10
cert10
jinja210
cert-manager10
manager10
kubernetes-resources10
rundeck9
bash9
encryption9
bootstrap9
sanitizer9
maintenance9
snippet9
kubernetes-deployment8
ansible8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sre-devops-tools/response
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
THE incident management tool, that will run, hassle-free.
Contributions:45 commits, 11 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 months
management-toolsreincident-managementdevops
gargrag/dotfiles
Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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