About Rafael
Cloud solutions engineer / architect.
- 6 years AWS and GCP experience. Focus on Cloud Architecture, networking, DevOps - Automation
- 20 years experience as network engineer designing, deploying and supporting large networks, mainly in Carrier environments.
- Excellent multi lingual communications capabilities and passion sharing knowledge and Teaching
- Authorised AWS Instructor (AAI) since 2021
- Authorized Google Cloud Instructor since 2023
Spanish
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
French
Fluent
Italian
Fluent
German
Basic
Can work on-site
Madrid (up to 50km), Santander (up to 50km)
Experience
- FreelanceFreelance Cloud ConsultantTECHJune 2023 - Today (3 years and 1 month)Madrid, SpainCloud Solutions Architect- End-to-end Architecture design for Cloud based solutions- Focus on Security - Redundancy - Scalability- Work involves DevOps : deploying solutions with Terraform and automation with Ansible, Packer.Recent projects involve:Members portal (“portal del socio”) for a Spanish First Division football team.
- Full AWS multi-tier solution design, with testing and implementation in Terraform. Security design, autoscaling solution, observability with alarms, event management and dashboards.
- Database (RDS) deployment, monitoring and upgrades
- Migration from Checkpoint WAF to AWS Web Application Firewall.
- Ongoing deployment of AWS SES (Simple Email Service) with related DNS configuration.
- Multi region - multi account network design with Transit Gateway and VPN attachments
- Re-design and security hardening of AWS Data Warehouse solution (Redshift) from public to private subnet.
Large scale migration of live Terraform deployment from version 0.11 to 1.9Retainer as AWS Architect for a mid size corporation:- Tasks include Security evaluation and recommendations, database and instance updates, security incident handling, migration from GlusterFS to EFS, implementation of DR solution with AWS Backup, re-design of logging solution for: load balancers, CloudTrail and CloudFront.
Ongoing PoC of an EKS Kubernetes multitenant solution (“SaaS”) to support the web hosting for multiple small-mid size CMS customers.Ongoing PoC of an Agentic AI python application to monitor and control AWS Cloud costs. Using AWS Bedrock Strands SDK and AgentCore deployment environment. - FreelanceTrainer - AWS - GCP - TerraformTECHJune 2020 - Today (6 years)Madrid, SpainTrainer - AWS and GCPAWS Authorized Instructor (AAI) - Delivering AWS Courses for:- Architecting and Advanced Architecting- AWS Security Engineering- AWS Cloud Operations- AWS NetworkingGCP Authorized Instructor - Delivering:- GCP Architecting- Kubernetes (GKE)- Operations coursesTerraform Instructor - Developed my own courseware for Intermediate and Advanced Terraform Courses.- Customers include: Mutua Madrileña, Banco de Santander, Kyndryl, Mercadona, Indra
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Education
- MS Mechanical Engineer (Ingeniero Industrial Esp. Mecánica)Universidad Politécnica de Madrid1983Mechanical Engineer - 6 year course equivalent to MS
Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - AssociateAmazon Web Services Training and Certification2023
- AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – AssociateAmazon Web Services Training and Certification2026