Ignacio Silvera Queijas

Platform Engineer · Kubernetes & GitOps

Madrid, Spain | silveraignacio@gmail.com | linkedin.com/in/silvera-ignacio | github.com/silveraignacio | ignaciosilvera.com

Professional Summary

Platform & DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience building and operating scalable, reliable infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments. Strong in Linux, Kubernetes (CKA), GitOps (ArgoCD, FluxCD) and Infrastructure as Code with Terraform. Focused on enabling development teams through automation, observability and robust CI/CD pipelines, and on designing platforms for high availability, performance and security. Also ships and operates a personal SaaS product end to end, leveraging AI-assisted development.

Technical Skills

Employment History

Platform Engineer — Ionik Tech, Madrid

Aug 2025 – Present
  • Design and implement the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), enabling self-service infrastructure and reducing time-to-market for multiple engineering teams.
  • Orchestrate and manage 20+ production Kubernetes clusters running hundreds of microservices, ensuring high availability and cost-efficiency.
  • Plan and execute complex, zero-downtime upgrades across distributed environments, coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders globally.
  • Standardize and automate server provisioning and network configuration with Terraform and Ansible, ensuring consistency between UAT and Production.
  • Drive GitOps adoption with ArgoCD and FluxCD, improving deployment traceability and security across the organization.
  • Strengthen system resilience through advanced monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana) and by leading Root Cause Analysis for complex production incidents.

Technologies: Kubernetes, Crossplane, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, FluxCD, Prometheus, Grafana, Helm, Linux.

DevOps Engineer — The Workshop (Inventors of Play), Madrid

Jun 2022 – Aug 2025
  • Joined the CDN team to help build a custom Content Delivery Network; delivered a new UAT environment end to end and drove GitOps adoption with FluxCD and ArgoCD.
  • Improved monitoring and observability, and led incident response, failure analysis, and documentation of SOPs and operational processes.
  • Moved to the Internal Development team: automated internal workflows, optimized CI/CD pipelines, and standardized tooling to boost engineering productivity.
  • Joined the Platform Engineering team: designed and built scalable, secure, production-ready infrastructure with IaC automation, Kubernetes platform enhancements, and cloud-native enablement.

Technologies: Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, FluxCD, Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Bash.

Senior Systems Administrator — Skydance Animation, Madrid

Sep 2021 – May 2022
  • Deployed a Linux render farm on bare-metal servers using distributed deployment methods.
  • Administered and maintained internal Linux services (mostly Ubuntu) used by Artists and Pipeline teams; Terraform scripting on AWS environments.

Technologies: Linux, Ansible, Terraform, AWS, Docker.

DevOps Engineer — Technisys, Montevideo

Feb 2021 – Aug 2021
  • Provisioned cloud infrastructure on Azure and local environments for internal development teams, along with the tooling required for CI/CD processes.
  • Focused heavily on Kubernetes and Helm deployments.

Technologies: Azure DevOps, Azure Container Registry, AKS, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Helm, Docker.

Linux Administrator / DevOps — Atos, Montevideo

Sep 2015 – Feb 2021
  • Full administration of RedHat, CentOS and Debian servers; installed, configured and administered application servers (Tomcat, JBoss).
  • Strong knowledge of httpd, keepalived, firewall, HA and PostgreSQL; familiar with ITIL practices and ISO 27001.
  • Delivered AWS projects (EC2, ECS, RDS, Route 53, ALB), automating tasks with Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform and Nexus.
  • Contributed to Uruguayan health-sector projects based on InterSystems products (HealthShare).

Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, VMware, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, Bash, nginx, Apache, Zabbix, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB.

Earlier Experience

Linux Administrator — NetLabs, Montevideo

May 2015 – Aug 2015
  • Linux administration for enterprise clients (Netgate, HG).

System Administrator — Altimetrik, Montevideo

Sep 2012 – May 2015
  • Administered company servers (Active Directory, Linux, Apache, Tomcat, Radius); user support and data-center / structured-cabling maintenance across Windows, macOS and Linux.

Technician — Olidata Uruguay, Montevideo

Jun 2011 – Dec 2011
  • Hardware repair of notebooks, netbooks and desktops, including Plan Ceibal devices (XO 1.0/1.5, JumPC).

Personal Projects

TriBathon — Founder & Engineer (tribathon.live)

Live · ongoing
  • Designed, built and deployed a multi-platform subathon-timer SaaS for streamers, integrating Twitch, Kick, YouTube and StreamElements.
  • Full-stack Next.js application monetized via Paddle subscriptions; sole owner of architecture, deployment and production infrastructure.
  • Accelerated development with AI-assisted tooling while applying DevOps expertise for CI/CD, hosting and day-to-day operations.

Technologies: Next.js, Paddle, n8n, AI-assisted development, CI/CD.

ignaciosilvera.com — This website (github.com/silveraignacio/ignaciosilvera.com)

Live
  • Zero client-side JavaScript; the same data renders the web page, the printable CV, the PDF and the notes feed.
  • Deployed on Cloudflare straight from the repository as static assets: every branch gets a preview URL, and the build fails if the committed PDF drifts from the data.

Technologies: Astro, TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers, Playwright.

Certifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) — LF-i9ylsg5wmo
  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
  • Zabbix Certified Professional — CP1711-13
  • Zabbix Certified Specialist — CS1711-28
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Virtualization — 190-285-668

Education

  • Degree, Computer Science / Information Technologies — Universidad de la Empresa (UDE), Montevideo (2016)
  • Technician, Operating Systems and Networks — Universidad ORT, Montevideo (2012–2015)
  • Professional Development Plan, Information Security — Universidad ORT, Montevideo (2015)

Languages

Spanish: Native | English: Professional working proficiency