Jorge Alarcón Vargas

Full-Stack Devops|cloud architect
jorgeav527@gmail.com | +51 973635864 | github.com/jorgeav527 | linkedin.com/in/jorgeav527 | docs.cordstart.com

Platform Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing and automating cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and developer platforms across AWS, Terraform, and containerized environments. Proven track record of building production-grade systems from zero, reducing infrastructure costs through architecture decisions, and enabling faster delivery cycles for distributed teams. Background in data engineering, full stack development, and serverless architecture adds rare breadth to infrastructure work. Started as a Civil Engineer with a focus on process automation, bringing systems thinking and precision to every technical decision.

Professional Experience

Kroma — CloudOps & Full-Stack Engineer

Feb 2026 — Present
Remote, Full-time
Arequipa, Peru
  • Architected a serverless AWS infrastructure leveraging Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync, and CloudFront.
  • Developed a secure admin API via Agent AI SDD to power a multi-purpose e-commerce and e-learning platform, featuring strict JWT, RBAC, and soft-delete.
  • Automated CI/CD via GitHub Actions for FastAPI microservices, Nuxt.js frontends, and IaC (Terraform/Pulumi).
  • Optimized a 47-service serverless architecture, reducing idle baseline compute costs to just $0.65.
Stack:AWS (CloudFront, Route 53, Cognito, API Gateway)|CI/CD (GitHub Actions)|Terraform|Python (FastAPI)|JavaScript (Nuxt)|NoSQL (DynamoDB)|Docker

Cibertec — Data Science Instructor

Oct 2023 — Present
Remote, Part-time
Lima, Peru
  • Teach Python for Data Science, from fundamentals to advanced (generators, OOP, automation).
  • Guide students in API Development, explaining REST design both CSR and SSR.
  • Demonstrate Data Engineering concepts by building batch-oriented ETL pipelines with real-world datasets on Python + SQL.
  • Instruct on Machine Learning fundamentals, covering core algorithms, model evaluation, and applied use cases.
Stack:Python (FastAPI, Flask, Pandas, NumPy, Jupyter notebook)|Bash|SQL (SQLite3)|NoSQL (MongoDB)|WebSockets

Cifras — DevOps Engineer

Jul 2025 — Oct 2025
Remote, Full-time
Argentina
  • Consulted on cloud infrastructure and DevOps best practices for a microservices-based financial platform.
  • Built and containerized backend (Spring Boot) APIs using Docker and deployed services on AWS ECS.
  • Implemented CI/CD automation, monitoring, and orchestration to support scalable operations.
Stack:AWS (ECS, EKS)|Terraform|CI/CD (GitHub Actions)|Docker

Roadr

— Infrastructure Engineer

Feb 2023 — June 2025
Remote, Full-time
Los Angeles, California, United States
  • Cut EKS control plane costs by $73/month per environment by migrating workloads to Amazon ECS without compromising scalability.
  • Architected a highly available containerized environment using Terraform to provision Amazon ECS on Fargate for serverless compute, while orchestrating Redpanda on EC2 Spot Instances to achieve high-throughput event streaming with significant infrastructure cost optimization.
  • Standardized observability and security through Prometheus, Grafana, and strict Security Group and Auto Scaling configurations.
Stack:Monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus)|AWS (ECS, EKS)|Terraform|Ansible|Kubernetes|Redpanda

— Full Stack DevOps

Feb 2023 — June 2025
Remote, Full-time
Los Angeles, California, United States
  • Architected and managed high-availability containerized environments across AWS and Linode using Docker, Terraform, and Ansible for multi-language backend services.
  • Engineered CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Jenkins, enabling automated deployments across staging and production environments.
  • Implemented and deployed REST APIs, gRPC, WebSockets, GraphQL, and event-driven architectures across distributed microservices.
  • Optimized PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra performance while integrating high-throughput streaming via Kafka, Redpanda, and Redis.
  • Identified and resolved memory leaks and performance bottlenecks through real-time monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and Netdata.
Stack:Python (FastAPI, Airflow)|Rust (Axum Web, Leptos)|JavaScript (Express)|Docker (DockerHub)|AWS (ECS, Load Balancer, Route 53, CloudFront, S3, ASG, CloudMap, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, RDS)|CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)|Terraform|Ansible|SQL (PostgreSQL)|NoSQL (MongoDB)|Redis (Pub/Sub)|Kafka

— Data Engineer

Feb 2023 — June 2025
Remote, Full-time
Los Angeles, California, United States
  • Built and deployed scalable FastAPI and Echo backends with Clean Architecture and TDD, integrating Redis, GraphQL, and WebSockets.
  • Designed ETL pipelines to centralize multi-source data and support event-driven analytics and reporting.
  • Used PySpark on AWS EMR to transform and optimize raw data before loading into Redshift.
  • Implemented a conversational bot (Maia) backend using FastAPI with OpenAI API.
  • Migrated from MongoDB to PostgreSQL and transitioned dashboards to Grafana for cost-efficient real-time reporting.
Stack:Python (FastAPI, Airflow, Pyspark)|Golang (Fiber, Echo)|Docker|AWS (Lambda, EMR, S3, Redshift, Sep Functions)|Warehousing (Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Cassandra)|SQL (PostgreSQL)|CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)|NoSQL (MongoDB)|Event Streaming (Redis Pub/Sub, Kafka)|Grafana

Viaje Facil S.A.C — DevOps Engineer

Oct 2022 — Dec 2022
Full-time
Floripa, Brazil
  • Designed and provisioned a cost-optimized AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
  • Configured isolated dev and production environments for frontend (Amplify) and backend (EC2) to support safe iteration and fast time to production
  • Built dual CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
  • Set up observability stack with CloudWatch Alarms and log management using S3 + Athena for ad-hoc analytics
  • Set up observability and log management using CloudWatch Alarms, S3, and Athena with retention policies to control storage costs.
Stack:AWS (Amplify, EC2, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, Athena)|CI/CD (GitHub Actions)|Docker|Terraform

GRUPO RPG SAC — Full Stack Developer

Dec 2019 — Jan 2021
Full-time
Arequipa, Perú
  • Built and deployed a Django/HTMX web tool on AWS EC2 with RDS and S3, automating laboratory reports and real-time performance dashboards.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions for automated staging and production deployments.
Stack:AWS (RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, EC2)|CI/CD (GitHub, Python, Bash)|Docker

Projects

Startup Mexico n8n — DevOps Engineer

Oct 2025 – Present
  • Deployed a self-hosted n8n platform on-premises using Docker in queue mode (1 master, 2 workers), PostgreSQL, and dual Redis instances supporting 10 req/sec
  • Secured infrastructure with OpenVPN, Caddy reverse proxy with SSL termination, and Ngrok for webhook handling in dev
  • Implemented observability with Prometheus and Grafana for real-time monitoring and alerting across all services