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Cloud platforms that feel effortless.

I'm Leandro Garcia, a cloud and site reliability engineer. I build production-grade AWS infrastructure as code, with container platforms and observability that let teams ship faster and sleep through the night.

status: open to senior IC roles + select consulting
AWS Terraform & OpenTofu Kubernetes GitOps Observability CI/CD Automation
99.9%+ uptime on production
40+ resources moved to IaC
8+ years in production infra
P0/P1 on-call incident ownership
How I help

Bridging strategy and execution for cloud-native teams

I partner with engineering leaders to turn ambitious roadmaps into resilient, observable platforms that empower product teams.

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Scalable cloud foundations

Designing secure, multi-account AWS environments with policy guardrails, cost insight, and repeatable provisioning.

  • Landing zones & well-architected reviews
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / OpenTofu)
  • Resilience, security & compliance built-in
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Developer experience & automation

Accelerating delivery with pipelines that balance safety and speed while reducing cognitive load for engineers.

  • GitOps pipelines & deployment automation
  • Reusable platform modules & golden paths
  • Knowledge sharing & cross-team enablement
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Operations & reliability

Operational excellence grounded in observability, on-call discipline, and continuous improvement.

  • SLOs, incident analytics & actionable alerts
  • 24/7 on-call leadership & runbook automation
  • Disaster recovery, security & chaos exercises
Experience

Trust built in high-stakes environments

Hands-on leadership delivering reliable systems for product and enterprise teams across the Americas.

May 2024 — Present Remote • Uruguay
Cloud / DevOps / SRE Engineer
Zeta Global (formerly Marigold)

Moving enterprise marketing infrastructure onto peer-reviewed Infrastructure as Code, with ECS Fargate platforms, multi-VPC networking and end-to-end observability.

December 2021 — May 2024 Remote
Senior DevOps & SRE Engineer
CAE (formerly Sabre Corporation)

Owned Infrastructure as Code and reliability for a mission-critical, OpenShift-based airline operations platform: 5 microservices with Helm and Istio, three environments, and P0/P1 on-call ownership.

March 2021 — December 2021 Montevideo, Uruguay
Engineering Support
Park Place Technologies

Provided technical guidance and rapid incident response for enterprise infrastructure fleets.

August 2017 — March 2021 Uruguay
Infrastructure Analyst
BDO Uruguay

Laid the groundwork for my cloud career, managing critical infrastructure and strengthening networking & security skills.

capabilities

The stack I actually work in

Hands-on across cloud, Infrastructure as Code, containers, observability and reliability. Here is the real toolset, by domain.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Expert
  • AWS: EC2, ECS Fargate, Aurora RDS, S3, Lambda, Redshift
  • Multi-VPC: Transit Gateway, Site-to-Site VPN, VPC Flow Logs
  • IAM Identity Center, Route 53, CloudFormation, ROSA
  • FSx for NetApp ONTAP, ElastiCache Redis, DynamoDB
  • Azure (Entra ID SSO, Azure DevOps)

Infrastructure as Code

Expert
  • Terraform / OpenTofu
  • Spacelift module management
  • CloudFormation
  • Ansible

Containers & Orchestration

Advanced
  • AWS ECS / Fargate
  • OpenShift & AWS ROSA
  • Kubernetes, Helm, Istio
  • Docker & ECR
  • ArgoCD (GitOps)

Monitoring & Observability

Expert
  • Grafana Cloud & Grafana Alloy
  • CloudWatch (p99 alarms) & OpenTelemetry
  • BigPanda alert aggregation
  • Splunk, Zabbix
  • FireLens log routing

CI/CD & GitOps

Expert
  • Bitbucket Pipelines (staged promotion)
  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub Actions
  • ArgoCD workflows
  • Multi-environment deployments

Databases & Data

Advanced
  • SQL Server (migrations, RCA, optimization)
  • PostgreSQL & Aurora RDS
  • Redshift, DynamoDB
  • ElastiCache Redis

Security & Networking

Advanced
  • Cloudflare WAF, custom hostnames, certificate management
  • AWS Transit Gateway & Site-to-Site VPN
  • IAM Identity Center, Azure Entra ID SSO
  • Network defense (CND), DNS and certificate management

SRE & Operations

Expert
  • P0 / P1 on-call incident ownership
  • SLO / SLI design
  • Post-incident reviews and RCA
  • Zero-downtime migrations
  • Disaster recovery

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect Associate in progress HashiCorp Terraform Associate in progress Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) in progress AWS Security Essentials 2022 Certified Network Defender (CND) 2020-2021
Latest writing

Insights from the trenches

Stories and lessons from building distributed systems, enabling teams, and scaling operations.

get in touch

Let's build something reliable.

I'm open to senior individual-contributor roles and select consulting. If you're scaling AWS workloads, modernising infrastructure, or hardening reliability, I'd like to hear about it.

Open to senior roles & select consulting