Gilbert Batista

DevOps Engineer · Contract

• ▸Owned multi-environment AKS infrastructure, managing cluster lifecycle and GitOps delivery via ArgoCD app-of-apps across dev, staging, and production.
• ▸Built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions covering build, test, security scanning, and automated deployment.
• ▸Codified all Azure infrastructure with Terraform, eliminating manual provisioning and enabling consistent, repeatable environment delivery.
• ▸Established observability stack with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, reducing mean time to detection for production incidents.

DevOps Engineer · Contract

• ▸Designed multi-regional infrastructure with Cloudflare geo-steering and database read/write splitting across NA and EU regions, significantly reducing latency for European users.
• ▸Built a full observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo) and instrumented a C# application with OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation, capturing distributed traces, per-request metrics, and full DB query telemetry.
• ▸Hardened ingress with Traefik and built automated DDoS cost-protection to prevent runaway cloud spend during traffic spikes.
• ▸Automated user onboarding via ChatOps bots, provisioning role-based access, credentials, and internal resource permissions automatically on new team member arrival.
• ▸Managed secrets lifecycle with HashiCorp Vault, enforcing per-user policies and least-privilege access across all environments.

DevOps Engineer

• ▸Led zero-downtime Kubernetes API version upgrades across multiple clusters, maintaining SLA for production workloads throughout.
• ▸Monitored and resolved incidents across hundreds of serverless functions, improving reliability and reducing alert noise.
• ▸Authored reusable Terraform modules covering all deployment stages, cutting provisioning time and enforcing infrastructure consistency.

DevOps Engineer · Full-time

• ▸Migrated thousands of manually provisioned AWS resources to Terraform IaC across multiple accounts, dramatically reducing drift and audit risk.
• ▸Standardized Kubernetes delivery by converting all workloads to Helm charts and introducing GitOps workflows with ArgoCD.
• ▸Built ChatOps-driven permissions automation for sensitive resources, replacing manual access requests with auditable self-service.
• ▸Optimized EKS clusters and integrated CircleCI pipelines, cutting deployment times and improving developer feedback loops.

DevOps Engineer / Back-End Developer · Part-time

• ▸Operated production Kubernetes workloads across Azure and GCP, managing AKS clusters and Azure DevOps pipelines for multiple products.
• ▸Built parameterized CI/CD pipelines for dozens of microservices, enforcing quality gates and automated security scanning before every release.
• ▸Deployed and scaled GKE clusters with Helm, configuring HPA and automated rollback to maintain availability under variable load.
• ▸Implemented Prometheus and Grafana monitoring with alerting, enabling proactive incident response for auto-scaling infrastructure.

Back End Developer · Full-time

• ▸Developed core backend features for an enterprise platform handling HR, planning, inventory, and logistics for one of the largest plant suppliers in North America.