Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer | Cloud Infrastructure | Kubernetes | Observability | Cost & Reliability Engineering

I build, automate, and scale cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
My background spans AWS-focused platform work, GitOps-style delivery, container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS), IaC at scale (Terraform), and deep systems-level optimization (networking, storage, energy consumption, performance tuning).

• Finishing a dual-degree Master's in DevOps (Mexico + Spain), with a focus on modern platform engineering practices
• CNCF track: Kubernetes admin / security / cloud-native stack (CKA, CKS, etc.)
• Platform security and workload isolation
• Multi-cloud fluency: AWS /Azure / GCP patterns (networking, identity, managed Kubernetes)

• Cloud: AWS (EKS, IAM, ECR, ALB/NLB, VPC, CloudWatch)
• Containers / Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• Infra as Code: Terraform
• Pipelines: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Travis
• Scripting / Glue: Bash, Python
• Metrics & Logs: CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana
• Automation mindset: Everything versioned, everything reproducible, everything with an exit plan

I like owning the full lifecycle:

1. Define the architecture
2. Codify it (Terraform / Helm)
3. Automate delivery (CI/CD)
4. Deliver / Deployment
5. Observe it (logging / metrics / alerting)
6. Optimize it (cost, performance, energy)

That means less “it works on my laptop” and more “this is production-ready and disposable.”

• LinkedIn: Christian Orrala
• GitHub Issues / Discussions: feel free to open one

If you're looking for someone to bootstrap infra, stabilize it, or make it cheaper without making it fragile — let's talk.