Jose Downing is a Site Reliability Engineering Architect with eight years of experience building reliable, automated systems and evolving from developer to SRE within IBM. Based in San José, Costa Rica, he blends hands-on automation and infrastructure skills with a developer’s mindset to reduce toil and improve service resilience. His progression from Automation Developer to SRE and now architect at IBM reflects a track record of driving operational maturity and scalable practices across teams. Comfortable with both software development and systems engineering, he focuses on pragmatic solutions that make large systems easier to operate. He is continuously learning—pursuing formal studies in computer science alongside an engineering background—which keeps his approach both curious and grounded. Colleagues know him for tackling complex problems with clear, incremental improvements rather than flashy rewrites.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer's Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer's Engineering at Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidad Estatal a Distancia de Costa Rica
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