Raúl Sánchez
Building Platform Engineering
Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRaúl Sánchez is a platform engineering leader with 20+ years in infrastructure and 11 years focused on cloud-native, microservices and Kubernetes ecosystems. He built and led DevOps and microservices architectures at Rancher Labs (now SUSE) and currently drives platform engineering at Zondax, contributing to core open-source projects like RKE and Rancher Terraform providers. Comfortable from low-level Unix and SAP landscapes to modern SDN, container runtimes and CI/CD automation, he blends deep systems knowledge (OS, hypervisors, SAN/NAS) with hands-on Golang and scripting work. His contributions to widely used Rancher repos include automation around Docker installation, RKE ingress/addons, Terraform provider releases and CI improvements, reflecting both operational and release-engineering expertise. Based in Lugano, Switzerland, he pairs pragmatic engineering with security-aware infrastructure design and a track record of making complex distributed systems reliably deployable.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
English, Catalan
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Github Skills (39)
ingress-controller10
kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
release-management10
automation10
script10
go10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/terraform-provider-rancher2
May 2019 - Feb 2022
Terraform Rancher2 provider
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:31 releases, 124 reviews, 928 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Raúl primarily contributed to the development and improvement of the Terraform Rancher2 provider, focusing on enhancing the cluster resource. Their work involved adding critical features, such as the implementation of parameters for monitoring as well as the support for setting properties for EKS cluster. Furthermore, the user addressed key aspects of cluster setup and management by refining the configuration of the registry. The commits also demonstrate a focus on addressing issues and improving functionality related to the resource.
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rancher/terraform-provider-rke
Dec 2019 - Dec 2021
Terraform provider plugin for deploy kubernetes cluster by RKE(Rancher Kubernetes Engine)
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:25 releases, 20 reviews, 194 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Raúl's contributions primarily focused on improving the build and release processes of the RKE Terraform provider. They updated build scripts, added a Drone CI/CD pipeline configuration, and integrated tools for code formatting and error checking. The changes included enhancements to package binaries, manage versions, and automate the release of packaged binaries. Furthermore, the user's modifications reflect improvements in the testing and quality assurance phases of the project, which is essential to ensure the reliability of the Terraform provider.
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