Pedro Alcocer
Director Of Engineering, Platform Engineering
Kerrville, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPedro Alcocer is a veteran Marine-turned-technology leader with 17 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, SRE practices, and high-performing engineering teams. As Director of Engineering for Platform Engineering at Indeed/Glassdoor, he leads Platform Ops, SRE, and 24/7 support to scale infrastructure, improve resiliency, and optimize developer experience across mission-critical systems. He has led major cloud modernizations—replatforming life insurance and annuities systems to AWS with full IaC, cutting OPEX dramatically while enabling significant revenue—and champions cost-aware observability and FinOps. Pedro blends hands-on technical depth (Kubernetes, Istio, Argo CD, Datadog, GCP/AWS) with operational leadership and a track record of shipping ML-backed features and platform self-services. He holds advanced degrees and cloud certifications, is deepening Kubernetes mastery, and actively explores practical Generative AI uses to boost developer productivity. Based in Central Texas and proud of Galveston roots, he’s known for coaching emerging leaders and solving complex, resilient-system challenges while prioritizing family.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Program Cloud Computing, Post Graduate Program Cloud Computing at Texas McCombs School of BusinessBachelor of Science Information Technology, Bachelor of Science Information Technology at University of PhoenixAssociates General Studies, Associates General Studies at Northern Virginia Community CollegeMaster of Science Technology Management, Master of Science Technology Management at East Texas A&M University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (61)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pealco/Cephalo
Mar 2009 - May 2010
Contributions:119 commits in 1 year 2 months
pealco/eeg-cnt
Sep 2010 - Aug 2011
Contributions:16 commits in 10 months
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