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Edward Suarez

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Cloud Architect · Backend Developer (Go) · SRE

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Edward Suarez, Senior DevSecOps Engineer based in Medellín, Colombia

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Mercado Libre · Banco Santander · Pragma

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Medellín, Colombia · Remote-ready

5+ Years Experience DevSecOps & Backend Engineering

170+ Cloud Instances Orchestrated & Managed

66% Faster Deploys 90 min → 30 min at Banco Santander

About

Who I Am

I'm Edward Mauricio Suarez, a Senior DevSecOps Engineer dedicated to Engineering Excellence. With over 5 years of experience, I specialize in designing secure, scalable cloud architectures on AWS and OpenShift. My background combines DevOps governance with Backend Development in Go, allowing me to optimize infrastructure — recently reducing deployment times by 66% and boosting compliance to 89%.

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Location: Medellín, Colombia
Email: contact@edwardsuarez.com
Status: Available for Freelance

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Site Reliability Engineer

High availability & resilience through Observability (Dynatrace), Chaos Engineering, and automated recovery strategies.

DevSecOps

Security integrated into CI/CD, ensuring compliance and vulnerability detection early — without sacrificing deployment speed.

Cloud Architecture & IaC

Scalable infrastructure on AWS and OpenShift, managed as code via Terraform and Ansible to eliminate manual toil.

Backend Engineering

High-performance microservices in Go and Java, bridging the gap between Dev and Ops in cloud-native environments.

Resume

Experience & Skills

Experience

Nov 2024 – Current UST Global

Senior DevOps Engineer

Client: Banco Santander. Orchestrating an ecosystem of 50+ microservices. Reduced system startup time by 66% (90m → 30m) and improved infrastructure compliance to 89%.

Aug 2023 – Nov 2024 Pragma

DevSecOps / SRE

Implemented Golden Signals monitoring for high-criticality banking apps. Automated Chaos Engineering workflows to identify vulnerabilities before production.

Nov 2021 – May 2023 Mercado Libre

Software Developer (Golang)

Backend development in Go for high-traffic commerce modules. Optimized DB performance by 15% and accelerated CI/CD delivery metrics by 30%.

Aug 2021 – Nov 2021 SETI S.A.S.

DevOps Engineer

Automated deployments via CloudFormation, reducing human error rates by 15% and ensuring seamless operations.

Nov 2020 – Aug 2021 Integ.ro

DevOps Engineer

Maintained 99.9% uptime on cloud infrastructure and reduced deployment lead time by 25% through pipeline optimization.

Education

2026 expected Escolme University

Technologist in Network Security

Focus on Reverse Engineering and Analysis of Network Elements.

2019 CESDE

Software Development Technician

Specialized in software maintenance and team collaboration.

Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, VPC)
Kubernetes
OpenShift
Terraform
Ansible
CloudFormation

CI/CD & DevOps

GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
ArgoCD
Docker
Helm

Languages

Golang
Java
Python
Bash

Observability & SRE

Dynatrace
Prometheus
Chaos Engineering
Golden Signals

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Issued: Feb 2024 Amazon Web Services

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate

Target: Jan 2026 In Progress

GitHub Activity

Work

Featured Projects

Infrastructure

AWS Enterprise IaC

Terraform / CloudFormation

IaC templates for deploying secure VPCs and EC2 auto-scaling groups managing 170+ cloud instances.

Infrastructure

GitOps with OpenShift

ArgoCD / Kubernetes

Automated deployment pipeline for 50+ microservices with multi-environment promotion strategy.

Observability

Golden Signals Observability

Dynatrace / Prometheus

Monitoring platform implementing Golden Signals for banking systems ensuring 99.9% uptime.

Resilience

Chaos Engineering Automated

Chaos Toolkit / Gremlin

Testing resilience in K8s clusters simulating pod failures and network latency issues.

Insights

Case Studies & Articles

CI/CD 5 min read

66% Faster Deployments: Orchestrating 50+ Microservices at Banco Santander

How we cut system startup time from 90 to 30 minutes through GitOps patterns, ArgoCD pipeline restructuring, and environment parity enforcement.

Resilience 7 min read

Chaos Engineering in Production: Finding Critical Failures Before They Find You

A practical walkthrough of implementing Chaos Toolkit and Gremlin in Kubernetes clusters for high-criticality banking applications at Pragma.

Observability 6 min read

Golden Signals: Achieving 99.9% Uptime in Banking Systems with Dynatrace

Implementing latency, traffic, errors, and saturation monitoring for real-time visibility across critical financial infrastructure.

Social Proof

What People Say

I had the opportunity to work with Edward on several projects when I was starting as DevOps — he was always very diligent in all the tasks he was assigned and his attitude to learn was always the best.

Edward es súper apasionado por lo que le gusta, muy decidido, aprende por si solo y súper rápido, además, trata de mantenerse siempre actualizado nutriéndose siempre de nuevos conocimientos para estar a la vanguardia.

He is a highly dedicated and talented developer, with expertise in various technologies such as Go, AWS, and Linux. Additionally, he possesses strong DevOps skills and exhibits great enthusiasm for information security.