Ricardo Herrera
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Radar
Town of Patterson, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRicardo Herrera is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of experience building and operating large-scale, developer-facing infrastructure across Kubernetes, VMware, and AWS. He’s designed and run multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms and private cloud environments supporting thousands of VMs and pods with 99.95–99.99% availability while driving migrations, cost reductions, and automation. Ricardo specializes in self-service platform engineering—creating CLI tools, Terraform providers, GitOps workflows, and observability stacks that reduce operational toil and enable teams to deploy independently. Notable wins include cutting infrastructure costs by over 60% with spot autoscaling and executing zero-downtime MongoDB and cloud migrations. He pairs hands-on implementation (Go, FluxCD, Kustomize, Helm) with mentoring to elevate team capability and operational maturity. Based in New York, he blends deep systems work with pragmatic product-focused outcomes that accelerate delivery at scale.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Universidad de Cuautitlán Izcalli
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Github Skills (116)
vsphere10
reverse-proxy10
composition10
proxy10
terraform10
infrastructure10
contour10
declarative10
terraform-module10
terraform-cloud10
charts10
hashicorp10
skipper10
mosaic10
golang10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
websolutions/wsol-terraform
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 92 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
provisioninginfrastructureterraform-modulesterraformaws
rickhlx/skipper
Mar 2022 - Nov 2024
An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition, including use cases like Kubernetes Ingress
Contributions:96 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 8 months
golangcasescompositionhttp-routeruse-cases
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