dplacencia.com

About

I’m Daniel Placencia Alvarez, a senior Cloud/DevOps/MLOps/SRE consultant focused on AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, observability, and AI/LLM infrastructure. I help engineering teams stabilise production, speed up delivery, and keep platforms cost-aware and secure.

Recent work

  • DevOps Engineer — Celtiberian Solutions Jan 2025 – Present
    Multi-account AWS, EKS with Vault-backed PKI, observability baselines, CI/CD acceleration.
  • Tech Lead / DevOps Specialist — DSpot Oct 2021 – Dec 2024
    CI/CD re-engineering (60% faster releases), AWS migration with Terraform/OpenTofu, ePOS integration.
  • MLOps Specialist — datwit Apr 2021 – Sep 2024
    AWS SageMaker/ECS pipelines, latency-aware APIs, monitoring with CloudWatch + Grafana/Prometheus.
  • HPC & Data Center Sysadmin — UCLV Sep 2019 – Apr 2022
    Automation with Puppet/Ansible, Ceph storage, CI/CD adoption, security hardening.

Credentials

Languages

  • Spanish (native)
  • English (full professional)