Jose Salas
Director, Site Reliability Engineering at Flywire
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolJose Salas is a Director of Site Reliability Engineering with 13+ years building and operating high-availability, cloud-native infrastructure for payment and transaction systems. He combines deep systems and networking expertise—from Cisco routers and SELinux hardening to Kubernetes and AWS services—with hands-on automation in Chef, Ruby, Python and Bash. Jose has scaled and secured global platforms at Flywire and peerTransfer, led SRE teams, and contributed to prominent open-source projects like fog and awspec to improve AWS testing and IAM tooling. Comfortable breaking and rebuilding infrastructure in multiple languages, he brings pragmatic troubleshooting, infrastructure-as-code discipline, and a device-level understanding of both physical and virtual datacenter stacks. Based in Valencia, he pairs enterprise-grade reliability practices with a history of packaging, monitoring, and performance-tuning across Linux, FreeBSD and Windows environments.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Universitat Politècnica de València
Spanish, English, Catalan
Github Skills (13)
ruby10
chef-client10
rspec10
chef-solo10
cookbook10
aws10
rsyslog10
testing10
apidoc9
api9
automations8
automation8
automation-testing8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/rsyslog
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Development repository for the rsyslog cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Jose primarily focused on improving the rsyslog cookbook. They fixed a restart issue, added support for ChefSpec testing, and refactored the code to ensure compatibility with different platforms. The contributions also included changes to the file input provider and adjustments to the default recipe, impacting how rsyslog is configured and managed. The changes demonstrate expertise in Chef and its application in managing system services.
rsyslogchefchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraform
fog/fog
Oct 2013 - Mar 2014
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jose primarily focused on implementing and testing features related to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) group policies. They created mock implementations for testing and also worked on features like `get_group_policy` and `get_user_policy` returning the PolicyDocument. In addition, the user addressed bugs and improved functionality within the Fog library, specifically interacting with DNSimple and AWS ELB services. The user also improved code in dnsimple and elb services.
cloud-servicesruby
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