Salvador Fuentes
Lead Quality Automation Engineer
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
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Top SchoolSalvador Fuentes is a Lead Quality Automation Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust test and CI/CD infrastructure for enterprise and open-source projects. He progressed from QA and hardware test roles at IBM to software engineering and management at Intel, and now leads quality automation at C3 AI, blending hands-on scripting with team leadership. His open-source contributions to Kata Containers—improving QEMU configuration, CI pipelines, and container integration tests—showcase deep expertise in containerization, hypervisors, and build systems. Salvador combines a master's focus in cloud technologies with practical DevOps and system architecture skills, enabling reliable releases across varied environments. Known for tackling complex testing challenges, he often finds efficiency gains in build processes and dependency management that aren’t obvious from feature work alone. Based in Zapopan, Mexico, he thrives on learning new technologies and turning automation into measurable engineering velocity.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Cloud Technologies, Master's degree Cloud Technologies at Universidad Autónoma de GuadalajaraComputer science engineering, Computer science engineering at Universidad de las Américas Puebla
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
docker10
qemu10
testing10
configuration-management10
bash10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
script10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
centos9
cloud-infrastructure9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kata-containers/tests
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
Kata Containers tests, CI, and metrics
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 125 reviews, 720 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Salvador primarily contributes to the testing infrastructure of the Kata Containers project, focusing on integrating and validating Docker-related functionality. Their commits introduce and enhance integration tests for Docker commands, container behavior, and package management within containers. They also developed scripts for the CI pipeline, particularly for teardown and environment setup, demonstrating a strong focus on automated testing and continuous integration. The user has demonstrated experience with testing and DevOps practices within the context of containerization.
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kata-containers/kata-containers
Mar 2018 - Aug 2022
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:5 releases, 90 reviews, 95 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Salvador significantly contributed to the build and deployment infrastructure of Kata Containers, focusing on QEMU configuration, CI/CD pipeline improvements, and overall system architecture. They implemented scripts for generating hypervisor configuration options, and they modified build processes to accommodate different QEMU versions. Their work also involved updating dependencies, patching QEMU, and adapting CI/CD processes to leverage tools like yum and yq, improving build efficiency and compatibility.
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