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    "name": "Ignacio Silvera Queijas",
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    "email": "silveraignacio@gmail.com",
    "url": "https://ignaciosilvera.com",
    "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.",
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      "countryCode": "ES"
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        "username": "silveraignacio",
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      "name": "Ionik Tech",
      "position": "Platform Engineer",
      "location": "Madrid",
      "startDate": "2025-08",
      "summary": "Building the Internal Developer Platform and running the Kubernetes fleet underneath it.",
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        "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."
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        "Kubernetes",
        "Crossplane",
        "Terraform",
        "Ansible",
        "ArgoCD",
        "FluxCD",
        "Prometheus",
        "Grafana",
        "Helm",
        "Linux"
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    {
      "name": "The Workshop (Inventors of Play)",
      "position": "DevOps Engineer",
      "location": "Madrid",
      "startDate": "2022-06",
      "endDate": "2025-08",
      "summary": "Three teams in three years: CDN, Internal Development and Platform Engineering.",
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        "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."
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        "Kubernetes",
        "Helm",
        "ArgoCD",
        "FluxCD",
        "Jenkins",
        "Bitbucket Pipelines",
        "Docker",
        "Terraform",
        "Ansible",
        "Prometheus",
        "Grafana",
        "Bash"
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    {
      "name": "Skydance Animation",
      "position": "Senior Systems Administrator",
      "location": "Madrid",
      "startDate": "2021-09",
      "endDate": "2022-05",
      "summary": "Infrastructure for an animation studio: render farm and artist-facing services.",
      "highlights": [
        "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."
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        "Linux",
        "Ansible",
        "Terraform",
        "AWS",
        "Docker"
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      "position": "DevOps Engineer",
      "location": "Montevideo",
      "startDate": "2021-02",
      "endDate": "2021-08",
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        "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."
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        "Azure DevOps",
        "Azure Container Registry",
        "AKS",
        "Bitbucket",
        "Jenkins",
        "Helm",
        "Docker"
      ]
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      "name": "Atos",
      "position": "Linux Administrator / DevOps",
      "location": "Montevideo",
      "startDate": "2015-09",
      "endDate": "2021-02",
      "summary": "Five and a half years going from classic Linux administration to cloud and containers.",
      "highlights": [
        "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)."
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        "Kubernetes",
        "Docker",
        "OpenShift",
        "VMware",
        "Helm",
        "Terraform",
        "Ansible",
        "Bash",
        "nginx",
        "Apache",
        "Zabbix",
        "PostgreSQL",
        "MySQL",
        "MongoDB"
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      "name": "NetLabs",
      "position": "Linux Administrator",
      "location": "Montevideo",
      "startDate": "2015-05",
      "endDate": "2015-08",
      "highlights": [
        "Linux administration for enterprise clients (Netgate, HG)."
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    {
      "name": "Altimetrik",
      "position": "System Administrator",
      "location": "Montevideo",
      "startDate": "2012-09",
      "endDate": "2015-05",
      "highlights": [
        "Administered company servers (Active Directory, Linux, Apache, Tomcat, Radius); user support and data-center / structured-cabling maintenance across Windows, macOS and Linux."
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    {
      "name": "Olidata Uruguay",
      "position": "Technician",
      "location": "Montevideo",
      "startDate": "2011-06",
      "endDate": "2011-12",
      "highlights": [
        "Hardware repair of notebooks, netbooks and desktops, including Plan Ceibal devices (XO 1.0/1.5, JumPC)."
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      "roles": [
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      "description": "A multi-platform subathon timer for streamers. Subs, donations and follows from several platforms add time to a single live countdown on stream.",
      "highlights": [
        "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."
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Next.js",
        "Paddle",
        "n8n",
        "AI-assisted development",
        "CI/CD"
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      "description": "Static Astro site generated from a single typed data file, which also emits machine-readable versions of this CV for AI agents (llms.txt, Markdown, JSON Resume).",
      "highlights": [
        "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."
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        "Astro",
        "TypeScript",
        "Cloudflare Workers",
        "Playwright"
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        "Loki",
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        "Telegraf"
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      "name": "Databases",
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        "ElasticSearch"
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        "Bash"
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        "VMware",
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      "name": "Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)",
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    {
      "name": "HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)",
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    {
      "name": "Zabbix Certified Professional",
      "issuer": "Zabbix"
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    {
      "name": "Zabbix Certified Specialist",
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    {
      "name": "Red Hat Certified Specialist in Virtualization",
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      "institution": "Universidad de la Empresa (UDE)",
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      "endDate": "2016"
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      "institution": "Universidad ORT",
      "area": "Information Security",
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