Alejandro John Octubre

Software Engineer

Toronto, ON

johnoctubre7@gmail.com

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2021 - Current

Empowered platform development and operations by providing common abstractions for bootstrapping, deployment, monitoring, and observability of a wide array of microservices
Built services in Python to help streamline certain aspects of engineering an application
Enabled, automated and generalized different deployment strategies to Kubernetes (rolling updates, blue green etc)
Designed, architected and built, documented, tested, and maintained scalable, secure CI/CD flows

Senior Cloud Engineer, OpenShift Tooling & Automation

Jan 2020 - Jun 2021

Designed and implemented REST APIs integrated with OpenShift for metering and chargeback reporting; built with Python FastAPI, APScheduler, Pandas, MongoDB
Developed an internal broadcast messaging system for platform announcements; built with Python, Jinja, Flask, MongoDB, Slack Integration
Authored and maintained standardized base images for internal developer community; Led a workshop on the base images (90+ attendees)
Drove Red Hat OpenShift Cloud Platform adoption across multiple teams and organizations and Provided engineering guidance to development teams transitioning from monolithic architecture to cloud ready micro-services

Staff Software Developer, DevOps & Cloud

Nov 2017 - Dec 2020

Developed a test regression dashboard, Frontend: React.js, Backend API: Node.js
Created a deployment CLI utility tool with Python using Click framework
Designed and implemented a Slack bot in JavaScript integrated with Jenkins to initiate and deploy builds to QA environments
Deployed microservices to QA, Staging, and Production environments on Marathon / Apache Mesos

Software Developer, DevOps & Cloud

May 2015 - Oct 2017

Deployed microservices to QA, Staging, and Production on SoftLayer Cloud servers
Deployment Pipeline and Infrastructure development
Developed REST API and UI automated tests in Java using Selenium WebDriver and JUnit framework

Bachelors of Engineering, Computer Engineering

Sep 2010 - May 2015

Programming

Python Shell/Bash Java Go JavaScript Unix/Linux

Cloud

Kubernetes Docker Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Amazon Web Services (AWS) Red Hat OpenShift

SCM & Storage

GitHub JFrog Artifactory

Security

Vault

CI/CD

Concourse Tekton ArgoCD Helm Terraform Jenkins

Monitoring & Alerting

DataDog PagerDuty Prometheus Grafana