Santiago Merlos
Senior Platform Engineer
Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolSantiago Merlos is a Senior Platform Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building and scaling cloud-native, secure platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. He combines deep expertise in Kubernetes, GitOps, Terraform and Ansible with a background in security leadership (former CISO) and product-facing roles, enabling him to both harden infrastructure and accelerate developer productivity via self-service platforms. His career blends technical architecture, CI/CD automation and operational excellence with prior CEO-level experience running large cross-company projects and support programs for over 120 clients. Santiago is passionate about open source and observability, and is known for turning manual processes into automated pipelines that cut costs and improve reliability. Based in Tarragona, Spain, he brings a rare mix of hands-on cloud engineering, security assessment experience and long-term project management that helps teams move faster without sacrificing safety.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MOC 2273: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 environment, MOC 2273: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 environment at microsoftMOC 2273: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 environment, MOC 2273: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 environment at MicrosoftFundamentos de ITILv3, Fundamentos de ITILv3 at EXIMCCNA version 2.1.2, CCNA version 2.1.2 at Cisco
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Github Skills (61)
core-module10
seccomp10
maintenance9
kubernetes-dashboard9
node-app9
gatekeeper9
contour9
mechanism8
pagerduty8
cert-manager8
k8s8
traffic8
enforcement8
kubernetes-cluster8
policies8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
barrancocarlos/angular-blog
Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 PRs in 3 years 1 month
smerlos/poc-portainer-gitops
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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