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Yaiser Avila Rodríguez

Core Skills

Kubernetes at scale (multi-cloud)

300+ clusters · 20,000+ pods

4 clouds: AWS · Azure · GCP · Linode

GitOps · CI/CD · Progressive Delivery

Observability · Incident Response · RCA

Cost Optimisation (FinOps) · On-call

Tooling

Kubernetes · ArgoCD · Argo Workflows

Helm · Kustomize · Pulumi · Terraform

Docker · Jenkins · GitLab CI · VPA · HPA

AWS · Azure · GCP · Linode · Linux

PostgreSQL · ClickHouse

Observability

Prometheus · PromQL · Grafana · OpenTelemetry

Vector · Superset · Kibana

Grafana Alerting · PagerDuty · FireHydrant

Programming

Go · Python · Rust (familiar) · Bash

TypeScript · JavaScript · C# · Groovy

Languages

SpanishMother tongue

EnglishBilingual (working)

FrenchIntermediate (learning)

Certifications

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

HashiCorp Terraform Associate (004) — in progress

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (renewing)

.NET Core, SOLID & Architecture Patterns

Vueling University

Education

2020 – 2021

Postgrad, Fullstack Development

Assembler Institute

2019 – 2020

MSc Plant Breeding

Univ. Politècnica de València

2018 – 2019

MSc Plant Biology

Swedish Univ. of Agric. Sciences

Licenciatura, Biological Sciences

Cuba

References

Francesco Lenahan — CEO, Triggle SLU

linkedin.com/in/flenahan

Jose Antonio Puertas — Tech Lead, Triggle SLU

linkedin.com/in/jose-antonio-puertas-pertiñez

Yaiser Avila Rodríguez

SENIOR DEVOPS · SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER · CKA & AWS CERTIFIED · KUBERNETES AT SCALE

Senior DevOps / SRE who keeps large multi-cloud Kubernetes fleets fast, cheap and reliable.

5+ years supporting complex distributed systems in production. I turn manual, costly operations into automated, self-healing platforms: GitOps delivery, autoscaling, and progressive rollouts on hundreds of Kubernetes clusters across AWS, Azure, GCP and Linode.

My instinct is to engineer toil out of existence: find the recurring incident or slow process, automate it, and hand the team back their time.

I stay calm and methodical during high-severity incidents, owning on-call and incident command through major live events and keeping customers informed under pressure. I also work well at the seam between infrastructure and people: I lead small teams, mentor engineers, and make reliability a shared default with product and software teams. A career-changer by design, from research biologist to senior SRE, I bring that same self-teaching drive to every new system I own.

Key Achievements

Delivered 10× faster deployments and saved 100+ automation hours by standardizing deployments with GitOps (ArgoCD) and IaC across the fleet.

Eliminated 20+ hours of on-call toil and 20–30 incidents per month by building automated OOM (out-of-memory) remediation.

Replaced weeks of manual release coordination with automated, health-gated progressive rollouts by co-building a fleet-wide delivery platform on ArgoCD, Kustomize and Argo Workflows.

Extended Prometheus observability to 30+ previously unmonitored environments, defaulted into every newly provisioned cluster.

Cut AWS platform cost 27% and accelerated deployments 500% at Triggle; reduced EKS extended-support cost 82.5% via a 1.24→1.29 upgrade across 4 clusters.

Cut compute cost by 80% across autoscaled workloads by rolling out Vertical and Horizontal Pod Autoscalers, driven by custom Prometheus metrics, to hundreds of clusters.

Professional Experience

Jul 2024 – Present · Full-time · Remote

Site Reliability EngineerHydrolix

Cloud-native, petabyte-scale streaming-analytics platform. Multi-cloud Kubernetes production fleet (300+ clusters, 20,000+ pods) across AWS, Azure, GCP and Linode, serving enterprise customers.

Led fleet-wide reliability, cost, and delivery across hundreds of clusters: GitOps standardization, autoscaling, progressive delivery, and automated OOM remediation (see Key Achievements).

Owned EMEA on-call and incident command for high-severity events, including major live broadcasts, and interfaced with customers to resolve reported incidents.

Kubernetes (multi-cloud) · ArgoCD · Argo Workflows · Go · Pulumi · Prometheus · Grafana · Vector · Superset · VPA · HPA · Helm · Terraform · AWS · Azure · GCP · Linode · PostgreSQL · ClickHouse

Jul 2023 – Jul 2024 · Full-time

Senior DevOps EngineerTriggle Spain SLU

Tourism PaaS on AWS / Azure. Led a DevOps team of 3.

Drove platform cost reduction and deployment-velocity gains through CI/CD automation, right-sizing, and scheduled cleanup jobs (metrics in Key Achievements).

Ran an EKS 1.24→1.29 upgrade across 4 production clusters and replaced a paid on-call platform with Grafana OnCall at zero cost.

Feb 2023 – Jul 2023 · Full-time

Senior DevOps EngineeratSistemas Consulting

Kept on-prem and AWS airline services scaling reliably by automating deployments and mentoring 2 junior SREs (Python, Bash, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, Datadog).

Feb 2022 – Feb 2023 · Full-time

Jr. Site Reliability Engineer / DevOpsAccenture

Cut CI build times 80% and Jenkins EC2 agent usage 10% for a banking customer by building a GitLab-API Branch Inspector tool in Python (AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, ELK, Grafana, Go).

Junior DevOps — Assembler Institute (2021–2022) · Jenkins, GitLab, Kubernetes CI/CD.

Earlier: UNDP mangrove-restoration coordinator, Cuba (2016–2018) · GIS, team leadership.