Pacheco Cardenas

Sr Cloud Architect

Senior Cloud Architect with 19+ Years of experience with global clients in IT, Telecom, Retail, Logistics, Aviation and Finance and
hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, application development, storage, platforms, & data. Hands-on leader focused on
strategic planning, building high-performing engineering teams, and leading critical IT projects to achieve business objectives.
 Implementing solutions with AWS, Azure, GCP and Open stack .
 Staff Management, train, coordinate, develop, execute, and troubleshoot builds/releases across multiple environments.

 Management of connectivity on AWS: Security Groups, NACLs, VPC peerig, Transit Gw, NAT Gw, AWS VPN, AWS Direct
Connect.

 Planning, designing, and implementing DevOps, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS & FaaS solutions.

 Hands on IaC by use of Terraform, Azure PowerShell, ARM templates.

 Hands on Serverless: Azure Functions, Logic Apps & AWS Lambda , Step Functions

 Provided cloud application development solutions such as IaaS, Serverless , API Management, Message Brokers ( ESB,
Kinesis, SQS, SNS )

 Solutions through DevOps environment, CI/CD with Jenkins Deployments in DevOps Azure and AWS in Agile Teams.

 Migrating workloads to Azure, AWS and Google cloud GCP.

 Hands on AWS: EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EMR, ECS, S3, Cloud watch, X-Ray & Lambda.

 Experienced on Azure: ESB, Logic Apps, SQL DB, Cosmos DB, Traffic Mgr, API Mgmt, Front

 Hands on IaaC working with Azure ARM template, AWS Cloud Formations & Terraform

 Hands on scripting tools including PowerShell, Azure CLI, Shell scripts.

 Hands-on Kubernetes ( GKE, EKS, AKS, OpenShift ) and use of Helm Charts.

 Security IAM –AD experience by onboarding thousands of users against hundreds of cloud applications and ensuring the
appropriate access controls were in place.

 Dealt with performance analytics Log Analytics, Power BI, Azure Databricks

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud: Azure, AWS, GCP, OpenStack.

CI/CD: Jenkins, Azure Devops, Octopus
Languages: Java, Python, C++, SQL, PLSQL,.NET, XML, JSON, HTML5, Shell/PowerShell scripts,
API: APIs ( RESTFul, SOAP)
RDBMS Databases: Oracle, MySQL , SQL Server, MS Access, LDAP, Sybase
NO SQL Databases: Cosmos DB, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB
Queue Service Brokers: Enterprise Service Bus, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, Kafka
Analytics: Log analytics, Application Insights, Power BI
APIs Gw: API Management Azure, API Gw, Apigee.
Networking: Switches, Routers, Load Balancers, DNS, VPCs, VLANs, VNET, Route 53.
Storage: S3 Bucket, Azure Storage Blob, DAS, NAS.
Serverless: Step Functions, Logic Apps, Lambda, google functions.
IaC: Terraform, Ansible, Azure Power Shell, Azure ARM templates.
Kubernetes: EKS, OpenShift, GKE, AKS, Helm Charts
Application Server: Weblogic, WebSphere, WebApp, Tomcat
IDE: Eclipse, VS Visual Studio, VSC Visual Studio Code.
Security: Hardening with Dome9, SSH, TLS/SSL, Key Vaults, HTTPS, Public Keys ,Private Keys, SFTP, Kerberos, Profile access( RBAC,
IAM), AD
Operating Systems: Linux RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, HP-Ux, Clarion, Solaris, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 7
Tools: Git, Crystal Reports, Oracle Reports, Power BI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERENCE:

NEORIS ( “Ranked as TOP 3 IT Consulting Firms in Latin America” )

Customer ( CEMEX Group & Citigroup Bank) Jan 2018 – June 2020
Sr Cloud Architect
Mexico City – Miami FL
 Lead cloud initiatives across a portfolio of projects, train & mentor staff with regard to new technologies, methodologies,
software, platforms, and tools.
 Provide ownership of complex migrations to cloud-based technical solutions in regards of compute, storage, network
components including backup, monitoring and DR environment requirements.

 Provided solution to e-commerce through the OLS Online store for the CEMEX group.

 Develop defined roadmaps and plans on a program team to cost-effectively migrate a customer’s current application
infrastructure to the cloud.

 Improving cost and pricing of cloud services including other factors that impact businesses operational costs.

 Provided formal training on Cloud for the involved areas.

 Performed Cloud connections to on-prem by using VPN Gw and Express Route.

 Assist in migrating, building, delivering, and managing hybrid cloud environments leveraging services provided by AWS,
Azure, Pivotal Cloud Foundry & OpenStack (airship).

 Use of Cloud services: EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, EMR, ECS, S3, SNS, SQS, Data Warehouse, AWS Redshift, Redshift Spectrum,
AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) & Hadoop.

 Defined the container service architecture, including security Lambda & Functions also with Docker Enterprise Edition and
Kubernetes with OpenShift and Helm Charts.

 Integrated BRE BPM SaaS to Azure through the API management in .NET.

 Managed CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, Jenkins and Octopus for Azure and AWS.

 Designed Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Azure PowerShell with ARM templates.

 Deployed solutions with Azure Service Fabric.

 Hands on Google Functions, Apigee, GKE, Storage, serverless, Datastore in .NET.

 Built, maintained and automated reliable and efficient ETL, ELT jobs.

 Designed and deploy solutions by using SQS, ESB and Kafka.

 Designed data migrations strategies from Datawarehouse to Azure Data Lake.

 Created prototypes and proof-of-concepts and training materials.

 Dealt Analytics for performance metrics and BI, with Log Analytics and Azure Databricks.

 Used AD Active Directory to enable SSO access to the Cloud by onboarding thousands of users against hundreds of cloud
applications.

CISCO
Customer: AT&T Feb 2017 – Dec 2017
Sr IoT Cloud Architect / Project Manager
Mexico City - Richardson TX
 Responsible for collaborating on Presales and setting cloud vision; providing thought leadership in cloud infrastructure and
cloud services architecture to meet operational objectives for cloud solutions
  Educate customers of all size on the value proposition of managed services on Cloud

 Provided ownership of 4G LTE vEPC, IoT under OpenStack cloud-based technical solutions for security compliance.

 Provided Solutions under V15 & V16 for main OpenStack projects such as Nova, Neutron, Heat, Octavia, Cinder, & Zun;
Hands on AirShip with Open Stack.

 Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks
necessary to complete planned work.

 Guided team in self-organization, encouraged and motivated team to focus on goals.

 Worked with PoCs by working with Azure, AWS and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

 Interacting with CI/CD DevOps Pipelines, NFVs and use as vSwitch and vLoadBalancers.

 Usage of containers with Kubernetes and OpenShift and security compliance.

 Implemented PoCs with SNS and Kafka to manage security for incoming transactions.

 Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks
necessary to complete planned work.

ORACLE
Customers: Telcel (Mexico), Telefonica Movistar (Panama), Claro(Brazil) Jan 2013 – Jan 2017
Cloud Architect
Mexico City – Raleigh, NC
 Being responsible of Presales initiatives and evaluated several migrations to cloud alternatives and makes a case for the
best approach for 4G LTE telecom solutions.
 Provided formal training on cloud for the areas related to cloud migration.
 Developed design cloud patterns to set enterprise best practices for cloud migration and adoption by using VPC, SQS , SNS,
RabbitMQ, EC2, RDBMS Oracle & MySQL, S3 buckets.
 Designed strategies for Data Migrations moving from On-prem data to Cloud Solutions in AWS and Pivotal Cloud Foundry
ensuring best practices for security compliance.
 Interacted with CI/CD DevOps pipelines; Designed Infrastructure as Code with Ansible and CloudFormation, Provided IaaS
& PaaS with public & private cloud solutions.
 Designed high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies to meet application objectives, including exposure to
plan and strategize backup and recovery ops under Cloud.
 Designed data migrations, tuning large instances on IaaS, resource management, data replication and backup/recovery
techniques.
 Created prototypes and proof-of-concepts and training materials predominantly by using Linux VMs/EC2 with CentOS on
AWS and Oracle Cloud.

HP
Customers: Bimbo Bakeries (LATAM ), Aero Mexico Aug 2012 – Dec 2012
Solution Architect / System Admin
Mexico City
 System administration, familiarity with secure build and configuration on complex operating environments with +1000
Virtual VM stacks in production.
 Install, upgrade, and manage OS & database applications

 Management of LTM/GTM, load balancing algorithms on production env. (F5).

 Developed design diagrams and corresponding documentation to set enterprise best practices, setup and maintenance of
network services and devices ( routers & switches).

 Designed high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies to meet application objectives.

 Designed, develop, and execute test plan based on software requirements.

 Supported the NOC and tier 2/3 support organizations.

ERICSSON Jan 2001 – July 2012

Customers: Telcel (Mexico), Telefonica Movistar (LATAM), VIVO ( Brazil ), ENTEL(Chile) , Digicel ( Caribbean)
Solution Architect / Project Manager /System Admin / Developer
Mexico City
 Responsible for Pre Sales of Ericsson applications for 3G, 3.5G & LTE.
 Designed, tested and developed applications using Oracle DB HA, PL/SQL under Java.

 Management day to day operations of 500+ UNIX /Linux production systems (RHEL, Ubuntu, Solaris, HP-UX); Scripted on
language Perl, shell, Bash, Ksh and Tcl.

 Applied OS hardening and implemented security controls, Compliance and Vulnerability remediation activities

 Managed network protocols like FFTP, TFTP, NTP, SNMP, F5 LTM, VPN’s, DNS, DHCP

 Designed & Development of HA setup, performance tuning, contingency plans like reliable backups and restore
procedures for Oracle Database Servers

 Planned and coordinated testing environment deployments and application / system integration testing.

 Encouraged and motivated team to focus on iteration goals.

EDUCATION

Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana

B.S. in Electronic Engineering /Computers - 2000

EXAMS/TRAININGS

 AWS Training:
Certified Solution Architect - 2018
”How to scale Kubernetes in AWS” – 2020
“How to migrate Microsoft workloads to AWS” - 2020

 Microsoft Azure Training

Certified Solution Architect -2019

 IBM Cloud Training

Business Process Manager - 2019

 Global Knowledge Training:

SCRUM Master - 2016
PMP PMBOK - 2011

 Oracle University Training:

UNIX System Administration Sun Solaris 8 – 2002
Oracle Database 8i: Administration I & II – 2002

 ERICSSON Training:
EMM (Billing Gw Administration ) - 2001
EMA 5.0 ( Ericsson Multi Activation ) - 2002
LTE System Survey - 2011