Rafael Otero
Sr Devops Engineer at lululemon
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Otero is a senior DevOps/platform engineer based in Vancouver with eight years of experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native infrastructure at companies like lululemon and Realtor.com. He blends hands-on engineering with teaching experience—having lectured computer science at UNBC and BCIT—so he communicates complex distributed systems concepts clearly to teams. Rafael has moved between roles as a staff-level engineer and consultant, showing an ability to both architect scalable delivery systems and roll up his sleeves to implement them. His background spans data engineering, DevOps, and web development, giving him a practical full-stack perspective on observability, automation, and developer experience. Colleagues value his track record of shipping reliable production platforms and mentoring engineers through operationalizing code at scale.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)
Spanish, English
Github Skills (14)
kernel6
rabbitmq6
asynchronous6
administration6
queue5
operating-system5
python5
redis5
admin5
monitor5
celery5
monitoring5
task-queue4
microcontroller4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rromanotero/minios
Apr 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 7 months
kerneloperating-systemmicrocontrolleroperating
rromanotero/IcedCoffeeOS
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
A Robot OS for the Rasperry PI and Cortex-M microcontrollers
Contributions:28 PRs, 113 pushes, 30 branches in 2 months
cortexraspberry-pirobotmicrocontrollerscortex-m
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