Miguel Valdes
Infrastructure Engineer at Best Buy
Chaska, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMiguel Valdes is an Infrastructure Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing and maintaining hybrid on-prem/cloud platforms, currently driving observability, automation, and reliability at Best Buy. He blends SRE-minded practices with practical tooling—authoring Chef cookbooks, Ansible playbooks, and Terraform manifests—to streamline deployments and accelerate incident resolution. Miguel has deep expertise in monitoring stacks (Elastic, Splunk, Dynatrace, Graphite, Grafana) and has built internal integrations and dashboards that surface actionable metrics for cross-functional teams. He’s a strong operator who pairs frontline on-call experience with process improvement, documentation, and post-mortem-driven prevention. Comfortable mentoring newcomers, he brings a customer-focused, analytical approach rooted in an Electrical and Electronics Engineering background.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Aguascalientes
English, Spanish
Github Skills (152)
appwrite10
markdown10
javascript10
dsa-algorithm10
on-the-fly10
github-copilot10
monitoring9
linux9
wikijs9
wmctrl9
distributed-tracing9
window-manager9
copilot9
cpp9
application-monitoring9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
mvaldes14/ansible_playbooks
Dec 2023 - Feb 2026
Contributions:7 PRs, 42 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 1 month
mvaldes14/dotfiles
Dec 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:9 PRs, 334 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 7 months
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