Summary
Jose Derpich is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native, resilient platforms at Walmart Chile, where he led SRE and platform engineering initiatives that delivered 99.95% availability and a 70% reduction in deployment time. He architects multi-region Kubernetes clusters, event-driven systems processing millions of events per second, and automation stacks using Terraform, custom providers, GitOps, and custom Kubernetes operators. A pragmatic observability and security advocate, he unified telemetry with OpenTelemetry, implemented SLO-based error budgets, Istio mTLS zero-trust, and automated compliance with OPA and Gatekeeper. He blends hands-on Linux expertise and chaos engineering with a teacher’s mindset (former instructor at DuocUC), actively engaging in the cloud-native community and quietly maintaining Slackware-focused tooling and infrastructure experiments on GitHub.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Innovation, Innovation, Diploma in Innovation, Innovation at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Spanish, Portuguese, English