Carlos Nunez

Skills

Public Cloud: AWS, Azure, GCP
Virtualization: vSphere, KVM, QEMU
Containers: Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Compose), Container runtimes (Docker, containerd, Podman), Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger), Networking (Istio, CNIs), Ingress (Contour, NGINX, Traefik), Observability/Telemetry (Jaeger)
DevOps Fundamentals: Infra provisioning (Terraform/OpenTofu, Pulumi), Config management (Chef, Ansible), Infrastructure testing (Goss, BATS), CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
Linux: Tracing (strace), Text Manipulation (vim, emacs, awk, grep, sed, etc.), Troubleshooting (top, htop, netcat, lsof, xxd, etc.), Init systems (tini, s6, SysV, SystemD)
Windows: Tracing (Procmon, Event Viewer/ETW), Automation (Powershell/WIM), Troubleshooting (windbg, netstat, etc.)
Networking: Packet inspection (pcap/tcpdump/netstat/telnet), Packet manipulation (iptables), Troubleshooting (curl/netcat), VPN (WireGuard/Tailscale)
Data: Flat files, RDBMS/SQL (SQLite, Postgres, MySQL)
Security: Encryption (PGP/GPG), Secrets management (Vault, dotenv), Container image scanning (Clair, Trivy), Static code analysis tools, CSPM/KSPM tools (Wiz, Snyk)
Web Dev: Automation (Puppeteer/Capybara), Selenium, JavaScript/Node (barely)

Principal Solutions Architect - Financial Services Houston, TX (remote)

Built an internal CVE comparison tool with Bash, Podman, Clair and Snyk to accelerate customer-led CVE inquiries.
Participated in a working-group for building multi-cloud reference architectures using Red Hat products.
Contributed various PRs to open-source projects, like Clair

Federal Presales Engineer Houston, TX (remote)

Drove the technical win for >$2MM of Wiz ARR and provided technical contributions to the Wiz for Government FedRAMP environment.
Designed bespoke demos and proof-of-values to accelerate deal close and time to value for the customer
Accelerated complex demo creation with demo automation based on Terraform, Bash and Make

Federal Presales Engineer Houston, TX (remote)

Created architecture for and wrote an automation framework for standing up demos of Tanzu Application Platform and Tanzu Mission Control in minutes instead of hours.
Provided guidance and technical leadership on onarchitecture for next-generation containerized and multi-cloud eveloper platform for a US Air Force program that accelerated capability delivery by several weeks.
Provided consulting on operating air-gapped Kubernetes clusters and implementing container-native application refactoring for the US Department of Defense.

Staff Solutions Architect Dallas, TX (remote)

Designed and built an innovative Cloud Foundry-like and Kubernetes-agnostic developer platform to enable developers to deploy containerized applications on their own clusters in minutes.
Accelerated production deployments of six major applications at a national retailer through pairing, test-driven development, and leveraging local Kubernetes clusters and Docker Compose.
Significantly reduced post-sales installation and implementation bottlenecks of SaaS and Tanzu software by writing, documenting and creating architecture for an innovative, highly-concurrent and language-agnostic preflight checking framework.
Collaborated with product teams and R&D to improve Tanzu Build Service and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.

Senior Cloud Architect Dallas, TX (remote)

Reduced provisioning times of Azure “landing zones” by over 40% by 40% by leveraging Bash, BATS and Terraform.
Provided architecture and deployment consulting for a migration to Azure Kubernetes Service from OpenShift at a major national retailer.
Mentored junior engineers by providing career progression advice and technical enablement.

Technical Principal Dallas, TX (remote)

Removed 17 days from a 400+ day release cycle of a popular banking backoffice application by leveraging NUnit, Selenium, Docker Compose and containerized Jenkins instances.
Improved request-per-second performance of a global IT inventory service by >100% while reducing team toil over 50% with SLOs, automated performance testing and introducing test-driven development.
Supported and wrote observability tooling for a multi-hundred node distributed system powered by Docker Enterprise.

2017: ThoughtWorks, Dallas, TX - Cloud consulting for Fortune 100 companies. Built automation to provision infrastructure and app deployments and create ephemeral development environments.
2016: Namely, New York - SRE for Namely Payroll. Maintained 99.5% uptime. Built automation to create multi-region Active Directory forests for testing AD SAML auth with third-party benefits providers.
2015: Google, New York - SRE for Corp Eng Managed Systems. Built a Kerberized command execution sandbox for multi-thousand Windows server fleet across Google X and acquired entities to reduce team toil by 60%.
2014: Two Sigma, New York - Improved effiency of new hire onboarding and terminations by >30% by implementing a pluggable, Powershell-based employee management workflow engine. Designed and led a proof-of-concept of Citrix XenDesktop VDIs for trading.
2012: Jane Street, New York - Architected and built an in-house configuration management platform for kickstarting and provisioning Windows servers from power-on using PowerShell and F#. Provided advanced support for homegrown Excel Add-ons used for $USD billions of daily order flow.
2008: Macquarie Capital, New York - Optimized in-house scripts that improved provisioning and decommissioning speed of Dell and HP Windows servers worldwide by over 40%. Wrote scripts and other automation to improve file server migration reliability.

2022: Learning Docker (LinkedIn Learning)
2023: Docker Essential Training (LinkedIn Learning)
2023: Kubernetes Provisioning for Infrastructure As Code (LinkedIn Learning)
2024: DevOps Fundamentals: Your First Project (LinkedIn Learning)
2025: Kubernetes: Your First Project (LinkedIn Learning)

BEng, Computer Engineering

Road cycling, Fitness and weight lifting, Beer and breweries, Coffee (v60 switch with Chemex filters), Minimalist sneakers and sandals