Oscar Ferrer
Platform Engineer
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolOscar Ferrer is a Platform Engineer with 14+ years building and operating large-scale cloud and Kubernetes platforms, currently running a multi-tenant, multi-cluster, multi-region runtime that handles 250k+ ingress requests per second. He specializes in AWS, Terraform, platform reliability, observability, security, and designing for high availability and scalability. At Adevinta he helped evolve the Kubernetes fleet that supports all marketplaces, translating operational demands into platform features with measurable user satisfaction. His earlier work spans complex automation and monitoring of hundreds of hypervisors at Ericsson to hands-on systems and DevOps roles where he managed both cloud and bare-metal infrastructures. An active contributor to kube-aws, he has practical experience improving control plane behaviors like certificate rotation and Pod Priority that reflect a deep focus on resilient deployments. Based in Barcelona, he combines long-term operational leadership with a developer-centric approach to platform tooling and reliability.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Informatico, Computer Software Engineering, Ingeniero Informatico, Computer Software Engineering at Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
English
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
go10
aws10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
configuration-management9
testing8
etcd7
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-retired/kube-aws
Dec 2017 - Sep 2020
[EOL] A command-line tool to declaratively manage Kubernetes clusters on AWS
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 19 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Oscar primarily contributed to the configuration and management of the Kubernetes cluster on AWS, focusing on features related to control plane components. Their work included enabling Pod Priority, certificate rotation for kubelet, and conditional deployment of kube-dns to controllers. They also worked on reserving resources for Calico Typha and adding an option to skip IOPS verification in ETCD, indicating a focus on infrastructure and deployment aspects.
awscommand-line-toolkubernetes-clusterhigh-availabilitycloudformation
zonzamas/dotfiles
Jan 2012 - Jul 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 10 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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