Hernan Vivani
Systems Development Manager - Ground Infrastructure Operations
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHernan Vivani is a seasoned systems development manager and technical leader with over 25 years in IT and more than a decade driving big data and cloud infrastructure at AWS, now leading Ground Infrastructure Operations for Project Kuiper in Seattle. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Linux, virtualization, distributed systems and big data stacks (EMR, Hadoop, Spark, Hive) with practical DevOps automation—contributions include automating Elasticsearch, Kibana and Kafka deployments on EMR using Puppet and bootstrap scripts. Known for migrating and modernizing heterogeneous environments, he has a track record of cutting costs through open source adoption and building resilient telemetry and monitoring platforms for satellite ground stations. He has built IT departments and commercial systems from the ground up in multiple countries, blending engineering, project management and training. Certified in Red Hat, AWS Solutions Architect and Okta, he brings both enterprise-scale operational rigor and the curiosity of an independent developer who publishes technical writing and tools.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Engineer, Electronic Engineer at Universidad Nacional de Mar del PlataIT, IT at RedhatBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at CAECE University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
puppeteer10
puppet10
amazon-elasticsearch10
kafka10
bash10
kibana10
ruby10
elasticsearchquery10
automation10
aws10
aws-elasticsearch10
amazon-emr10
infrastructure-as-code10
elasticsearch10
automations10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/emr-bootstrap-actions
Oct 2014 - Jun 2018
This repository hold the Amazon Elastic MapReduce sample bootstrap actions
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits, 7 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Hernan primarily focuses on building and configuring the infrastructure for running Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Kafka on Amazon EMR. Their contributions include creating bootstrap actions for installing and configuring Elasticsearch and Kibana, managing dependencies, and updating versions to address vulnerabilities and improve performance. The user also implements Kafka installation and configuration, including integration with S3 for log storage. These changes are implemented through Ruby scripts tailored for the EMR environment.
elasticamazonmapreduceawselasticsearch
aws-samples/aws-big-data-blog
May 2015 - Apr 2017
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Hernan's contributions primarily involve configuring and deploying Elasticsearch within an EMR environment using Puppet. They updated shell scripts to set up repositories and download necessary puppet recipes and templates. The user also modified the puppet manifests to install the AWS plugin and configure the service, demonstrating experience with cloud automation and infrastructure as code. Their work is centered around automating the deployment and configuration of Elasticsearch on AWS.
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