Senior Platform Engineer and DevOps Architect building secure, observable, and highly available cloud platforms.

I'm Miguel Ángel Torres Vargas, a Senior Platform Engineer, DevOps Architect, and SRE from 🇨🇴 Colombia with more than seven years of experience designing, scaling, and automating cloud-native infrastructure across GCP and AWS.

I specialize in building reliable internal platforms that help engineering teams deliver software safely and consistently. My work focuses on multi-region Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, progressive delivery, zero-trust security, observability, and reducing operational overhead without compromising availability.

• ☁️ Designing and operating multi-cloud platforms across GCP and AWS.
• ☸️ Managing production Kubernetes fleets with GKE, EKS, MicroK8s, and K3s.
• 🏗️ Standardizing infrastructure with Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, Crossplane, and Config Connector.
• 🔁 Implementing GitOps and progressive delivery with Argo CD, ApplicationSets, and Argo Rollouts.
• 🔐 Building secure secret-management workflows with Vault, KMS, SOPS, and External Secrets Operator.
• 📈 Improving reliability through observability, APM, tracing, incident response, and disaster recovery.
• 🚀 Automating delivery with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and Bitbucket Pipelines.
• 🏠 Experimenting with self-hosted infrastructure and Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi.

Platform engineering is about reducing cognitive load so engineers can focus on delivering value.

• GitOps and delivery: Argo CD, ApplicationSets, Argo Rollouts, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Bitbucket Pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, CUE, Crossplane, Config Connector
• Security and secrets: HashiCorp Vault, Cloud KMS, Workload Identity Federation, SOPS, External Secrets Operator, Kubernetes RBAC
• Observability: Datadog APM, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Thanos, New Relic, Loki, PagerDuty
• Data and streaming: Apache Kafka, Strimzi, KRaft, Debezium CDC, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL
• Connectivity: AWS Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, and hybrid cloud networking

• Multi-region Kubernetes platforms with high-availability and blast-radius controls
• Reusable Terraform modules for networking, compute, data, and security
• GitOps workflows that bootstrap and operate environments from a single source of truth
• Secure, reusable CI/CD pipelines for PHP, Node.js, Python, Go, and Flutter services
• Progressive delivery strategies with automated validation and rollback
• Streaming and CDC platforms using Kafka, Strimzi, and Debezium
• Observability platforms that improve system visibility and reduce MTTR
• Reliable cloud connectivity for hybrid and mission-critical workloads

• B.Sc. Systems Engineering — Universidad de Boyacá
• Digital Transformation — MIT Professional Education
• Google Cloud Certified: Associate Cloud Engineer
• AWS Certified: Solutions Architect – Associate
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

• Spanish: Native
• English: Full professional proficiency — C1

Building reliable platforms, one automation at a time.