Alvaro Gonzalez

Linux, DevOps Engineer

About me

Name

Alvaro Gonzalez Alvarez

Birth date

29th March 1982

Nationality

Spanish

Languages

Spanish (Native)

English (C1)

French (B1)

Finnish (A1)

Senior infrastructure and DevOps professional with over 18 years of experience in European research computing. At CSC, led the Cloud Solutions team from 1 to 6 people, delivering technical support, consultancy, and training to research customers. Previously at CERN for 11 years, providing developer services including version control, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Experienced collaborator across more than 10 European countries through projects such as ELIXIR and HEAP.

Experience

CSC - IT Service for Science

csc.fi

Application Specialist & Team Lead

2020-
Team lead of the Cloud Solutions team. We provide support to our customers, including technical courses. We provide consultancy, including personalized solutions. We manage services like Satama or AllasUI. We participate in European projects like ELIXIR and HEAP. I helped grow the team from 1 to 6 people over the years.

DevOps Engineer

2008-2019
Part of the developer services team. Using Linux for all the infrastructure. We have provided along the years services based in different technologies. Our version control offer was first CVS, then Subversion, and finally Git. In addition several JIRA instances were provided, a general purpose one, and some others for specific teams. For continuous integration and continuous delivery Jenkins, and GitLab CI are offered. Both deployed in an Openshift cluster that later was opened to the whole community.

Herca

Procurement, Research, and Development IT Engineer

2007-2008
Herca was a small startup company decided to build and operate a smart hotel. As the only IT in the company, I was in charge of the procurement of the IT material, install and configure it, develop the website, etc

Technologies

Technologies I have worked with, in no particular order.

Python Django Bash Java Perl
Quattor Puppet Ansible Kubernetes Openshift OpenStack
Jira Bamboo Gitlab Subversion CVS Flexnet Jenkins WebSVN Trac
Nginx Apache Docker SAML OAuth PostgreSQL SQLite Oracle curl openssl Bootstrap PaaS
Centos Red Hat Enterprise Linux Scientific Linux Fedora Atomic Debian Ubuntu

Education

Universidad de Oviedo
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Bachelor in computer science, 2000-2004

Thesis in PLC emulation software for education

Universidad de Oviedo
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

Master in computer science, 2004-2007

Thesis in expert training systems

University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Exchange Grad student, Fall 2005

Made courses in parallel computing, computer graphics (ray tracing), and networking software.