Edgar Martinez

I like green checks ✅, fast deployments 🚀, and gardening 🌱

Skills

Technologies and Frameworks
  • Proficient in Python, Javascript, and Bash scripting
  • Github Actions and Jenkins CI Platform Management
  • Kubernetes Cluster Administration and Helm Chart Management
  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Crossplane
  • AWS Cloud Services including EC2, S3, IAM, VPC
  • Grafana and Prometheus Monitoring and Alerting
  • Optimizing deployment processes for k8s applications in Helm charts used in ArgoCD applications

Experience

Devops Engineer
Remote
April 2024-Current
  • Implemented a develeper friendly Infrastructure as Code solution for managing thousands of Github Repositories.
  • Spearheaded the migration of CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to Github Actions, enhancing deployment efficiency and reliability.
  • Improved observability of github actions workflows by integrating monitoring and alerting systems on Grafana, leading to quicker identification and resolution of issues.
  • Eliminated developer operational overhead by creating an automated pipeline to periodically back up application databases.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve ephemeral environments via crossplane, enhancing testing and development workflows.
Site Reliability Engineer
Oakland, CA
June 2020-March 2024
  • Provided technical support to over 40 engineers across multiple teams, offering solutions and guidance for setting up AWS infrastructure within terraform.
  • Streamlined Terraform workflows using Atlantis, by automating infrastructure provisioning and management. This change dramatically reduced the wait times for Terraform changes from several minutes to seconds, significantly enhancing productivity and accelerating development cycles.
  • Led a migration project to transition CI/CD workflows for countless repositories from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, ensuring smooth integration and optimization for existing pipelines.
  • Created and maintained Documentation for adding new services to existing kubernetes infrastructure, in addition to templating and speeding up the application creation process.
  • Coordinated Kubernetes-hosted applications by managing helm charts in argoCD, facilitating streamlined deployment, scaling, and management.

Education

University of California Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
Computer Science, B.S (2019)
Courses
Web Applications
Distributed Systems
Algorithm Analysis
Computational Models
Operating Systems
Compiler Design
Artificial Intelligence