Francisco Salinas

About Francisco Salinas

I am a dynamic and adaptable engineering leader with a successful track record as a director and manager of Cloud Operations, Site Reliability Engineering, & Software Engineering functions. I have run, scaled, and continuously improved large mission-critical cloud services.I leverage my strong technical knowledge, analytical, and problem-solving skills to deliver creative solutions with a strong preference to solving operational problems through software rather than shell prompts.I enjoy and am committed to building teams with high levels of engagement, strong sense of ownership, and customer focus. I also have a strong desire to delivering great customer experience and success. I deliver results by carefully crafting and iterating on lean processes to achieve strategy and vision.Achievements• Developed and successfully brought to market HDS\' first public cloud service. • Managed production operations of a multi-petabyte public cloud storage service across multiple sites maintaining SLA during upgrades and expansions. • Built-up an SRE function at RMS implementing SRE culture/mindset to improve service reliability and enhance customer experience.• Managed development of self-service tooling increasing developer velocity providing rapid onboarding of new services, automated promotion between environments, and zero downtime deployment.• Developed and implemented operational and security controls to achieve service organization compliance standards achieving SOC II Type 1 & 2.Competencies: Engineering Strategy, Execution, Leadership, Talent Management, Data center, Public Cloud, AWS, Azure, Architecture, Distributed Systems, Global Operations, Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management, Security, Site Reliability Engineering, High Availability, DevOps, Scalability, Open Source, Automation, Capacity Planning, Virtualization, Containers, Global Load Balancing, Monitoring, Application Management, Corporate IT, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Microservices, Vendor Management, Budgeting, Contract Negotiations, Compliance, Product Management, Executive Communication, Project Management, Technology Management.

Experience

1. Cloud Platform Engineering

   Snowflake

   Mar 2020 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Lead cloud platform team working on commercial, government, TS, and other sovereign\\restricted clouds on AWS, GCP, and Azure.Transforming how we manage our systems and operational workflows with AI

Education

• University of Phoenix

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), MBA

• California State University - East Bay

  BS, Computer Science