Summary
Manuel Cruañes is an SRE and DevOps engineer with over 20 years in IT and seven years focused on modern cloud-native operations, currently leading infrastructure, CI/CD and observability at Photobox. He designs and runs highly available hybrid architectures on AWS (EKS, EC2, serverless) and automates provisioning with Terraform, Ansible and GitOps workflows, while optimizing costs and reproducibility. Comfortable across Linux datacenters, VMware, Containers and Kubernetes lab distros, he brings deep on-the-ground experience from UN peacekeeping mission infrastructure to large e-commerce platforms. A pragmatic automationist, he favors immutable infrastructure, scripting and tooling that reduce operational toil and accelerate developer delivery. Passionate about open source communities, he actively experiments with tools like k0s, k9s and steampipe to glue cloud telemetry and security. Known for a calm, inclusive approach, he blends systems-level engineering with a continuous-learning mindset rooted in telecom and networking education.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Engineer’s Degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Telecom Bretagne
Baccalauréat Science - Math & Physics, Baccalauréat Science - Math & Physics at Lycee francais de Valencia
Universitat Politècnica de València
English, French, German