AWS DevOps Engineer (Terraform & Kubernetes)

César Alejandro Lara Limón

*********@********.****.** Guadalajara, Mex github.com/laraconda

DEVOPS ENGINEER

Specialized in AWS infrastructure, Terraform, and Kubernetes. With experience optimizing CI/CD pipelines and agent creation. SKILLS

TECHNOLOGIES LANGUAGES

AWS, Terraform, Gitlab, Linux, Cursor.ai, Jenkins, Docker, Claude code, Cloudflare, Ansible, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Reactjs, Vuejs, Pytorch, SQL, Git, Django. Python, C++, C, Javascript, Java, Bash

English (C2 - Cambridge English), Spanish (Native) WORK EXPERIENCE

PAYSTAND TECH Gdl, Mexico (USA based org)

Devops Engineer AWS, Jenkins, Terraform, K8s, Cloudflare Workers Apr 2024 – May 2026

Fully automated the deployment process of the main application. From a manual process it was transformed to an automated Jenkins pipeline. It reduced deploy time to about a third and reduced deployment errors considerably.

Migrated large portions of existing AWS infrastructure into Terraform, improving consistency and automation across environments.

Mentored an intern by designing a scoped project, offering direction and overseeing its execution to delivery. The project consisted in improving the handling of logs by the main EC2 instances of the business using Terraform for AWS and Ansible.

Built an LLM-powered automation agent integrating Jira, Slack, GitLab, and Cloudflare Workers to generate Mrs aligned with GitOps principles.

SKUPREME TECH Remote (USA based org)

Devops Engineer EC2, Codepipeline, S3, Cloudfront, Bash, Nodejs Jun 2023 – Dec 2023

• Reduced cloud costs by auditing the AWS account and terminating idle EC2 instances, abandoned experiments, and untagged resources.

• Collaborated on the frontend deployment pipeline connecting GitHub to CodePipeline, automating React builds to S3 with CloudFront cache invalidation and post-deployment smoke tests.

• Supported the QA team by provisioning an EC2 instance for their Puppeteer E2E test suite, integrating S3 for screenshot storage and CloudWatch for instance monitoring.

META TECH Remote (covid) (USA based org)

Software Engineer Intern PHP Hack, React.js, Javascript, Mercurial Jun 2020 – Sep 2020

Helped to develop internal tools related to Oculus and hardware products made by Facebook. My work made the process of diagnosing faulty Oculus devices twice as fast.

Developed a tool to get information about the certificate associated with an Oculus device.

Created a way to debug and test login endpoints for Facebook hardware devices. PICTOLINE TECH Mexico City, Mexico

Software Engineer Flask, PostgreSQL, Android, Nginx Jul 2016 – Jan 2017

Created an automated system to simplify the process of uploading the same content to different social media platforms, thus making the process about five times as fast.

Engineered an Android-based solution to bypass API limits and post automatically to Instagram. YALKU TECH Mexico City, Mexico

Software Engineer Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Bash 2015

Created a social media platform for travelers and adventure seekers, from scratch. My work focused mostly on the backend and server side of the platform.

EDUCATION

National Autonomous University of Mexico Graduated in 2022 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

SELECTED PROJECTS

Art Generating Neural Network 2022

A GAN capable of generating art

Implemented both networks (generator and discriminator) using Pytorch based on the StyleGAN (2017) paper.

Trained the networks, ran experiments and wrote a thesis around it. AWARDS COURSES & CERTIFICATIONS

2nd place (out of 50 teams) – WALKSAT. A competitive programming contest organized by a government entity (2020).

Ranked in the top 20 (out of 300) teams competing to go to the Mexican regional of ACM-ICPC (season 2019).

Award for representing disruption — core Paystand value (2025)

AWS – Solutions Architect Professional (2026)

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AWS – Solutions Architect Associate (2024)

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Kubernetes Hands On – Richard Chesterwood (Coursera)

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Specialization (Coursera)

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