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Jay M Gonzalez

Senior DevOps Engineer

I make your systems work for your team and customers.

About

Back in 2013 I developed my fist website for a small advertising agency. Since then, I’ve been helping big insurance companies implement their analytic software, work for several high street brands on how to improve their online sales, worked for a start-up that was aquired by a big corporation, learned how to build software, have contributed to open source, and created my own company to offer my services as a freelancer.

My main focus these days is building pipelines and automations. I work on infrastructure and backend systems that help deliver seamless user experiences. I most enjoy building software in the sweet spot where user experience and engineering meet — things that are useful and easy to use but are also built well under the hood. In my free time, I like to play with AI, build side projects and, dream about becoming a successfull SaaS founder.

When I’m not at the computer, I’m working out, reading, walking in nature, dancing bachata or eating out with my girlfriend.

Experience

  1. 2024 — Present

    Contract

    • Develop CI/CD pipelines for managing the alerting within the CyberSecurity department

    • Help the infrastructure team improving the way to manage their Elasticsearch infrastructure with Terraform and Gitlab

    • Automate the migration of dashboards in Elastic from QA to Prod creating a custom script that handles backup, deletion and updates in both environments

    • Gitlab
    • Terraform
    • Elasticsearch
    • Python
  2. 2022 — 2024

    Freelance

    • Developed a Full Stack AI app to generate CVs for each job application. It gathers data from the user CV, it scraps data from the Job Description and uses OPEN AI's API to generate a personalized CV to download in PDF

    • Created sales automation for SME to personalize outreach efforts on LinkedIn. It works with a list of prospects, scrapes user profile and generates a personalize message

    • Created several AI bots for clients with custom knowledge base and hooked with OPEN AI's API

    • AI
    • Python
    • React
    • LLMs
    • AWS
  3. 2020 — 2022

    Full-time

    • Responsible for monitoring more than 1000 servers with ELK across 5 regions while troubleshooting live issues to avoid customer down time and creating dashboards

    • Participate in a cloud providers migration. From AWS to OCI - Update scripts, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform and Ansible code to work with the new provider while keeping the lights on and everything under tight project deadlines

    • Run Terraform commands to get the infrastructure deployed - Create playbooks in Ansible to automate the installation and configuration of the necessary packages and orchestrating everything with Jenkins jobs to automate the whole process

    • Jenkins
    • AWS
    • Ansible
    • Terraform
    • Kibana
    • Monitoring
    • Python
  4. 2019 — 2021

    Full-time

    • Provide customer facing technical implementation and configuration support ensuring timely on-boarding of new customers and improving current implementations

    • Understand client requirements and communicate how we can solve their technical challenges, from high-level architecture to code implementation

    • reate technical content to show clients how to implement specific use cases or best practices

    • Javascript
    • AWS
    • Integrations
    • APIs

Projects

  • Generate NFTs

    dApp built from the ground up as the final exercise for the Ethereum Bootcamp. It allow users to upload images/gifs, add metadata for personalization, and it generates a custom NFTs. It consist of a contract deployed in Polygon blockhain that stores the image in IPFS, a front end built with React and a serverless infrastructure deployed in Github Pages and CICD usng GitHub Actions.

    • React
    • Web3
    • Smart Contracts
    • Serverless
    Generate NFTs dApp homepage
  • Robo Recruiter

    AI SaaS developed with React, Flask and OpenAI API. It generates a personalize CV based on a current CV and the job the candidate wants to apply for. It gathers data from the job description, finding the right words and tone of voice to maximize the chances of being selected and it generates the output using a CV template to build the CV in PDF.

    • AI
    • React
    • Flask
    • SaaS
    Robo Recruiter SaaS profile page

Education