Sergio Méndez is a Cloud Native advocate, operating systems professor, and technical educator with nine years of focused experience helping organizations adopt Kubernetes, DevOps, and edge computing. As a CNCF and ARM Ambassador, Packt author of Edge Computing with Kubernetes, and organizer of KCD Guatemala, he connects academic institutions, local communities, and global cloud-native projects. His hands-on background spans cloud operations at scale—AWS, GCP, Pulumi/CDK8s, ArgoCD/Workflows—and practical SRE/DataOps work integrating monitoring, ETL, and MLOps pipelines. He brings rare breadth: founding a DevOps consultancy, contributing to Harbor and other open-source efforts, and teaching operating systems since 2011, which sharpens his ability to explain low-level concepts to practitioners. Based in Mixco, Guatemala, he combines classroom pedagogy with real-world production experience to make complex infrastructure accessible and sustainable.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Tecnología de la información, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Tecnología de la información at Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Master of Education - MEd, Online Courses Design, Instructional Design, MOOC design, Master of Education - MEd, Online Courses Design, Instructional Design, MOOC design at Universidad Panamericana
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