Gaston Perez

About Gaston Perez

Gaston is an accomplished cloud engineering expert in various industry sectors…

Experience

1. Cloud Engineering Leader

   MassMutual

   Jan 2025 — Present

   Gaston is an accomplished cloud engineering expert in various industry sectors (Fintech/Finance, Insuretech, Media), with extensive experience managing and inspiring teams in design, implementation, and analysis of enterprise technology. Known for taking care of his people, Gaston oversees domestic and international teams of 25+ information security (InfoSec), architecture, and platform engineering staff.Gaston holds his teams to a high standard and builds camaraderie and trust through a nurturing workplace. He promotes internal professional development through skill alignment and team rotations. He juggles the complexities of managing international DevOps and CloudOps teams with ease as he navigates separate networks, logistics, security, and time zones. His merit-based peer recognition program and weekly professional development training increases communication, motivation, and community, resulting in low turnover.Thinking broadly to improve systems, Gaston implements organizational change to enhance talent acquisition methods and boost efficiency. He diversified recruitment at Haven Technologies by initiating a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategy to recruit veterans, increasing veteran employment despite the company’s overall reduction in force. Increasing efficiency, Gaston reduced Amazon Web Services (AWS) and infrastructure costs by 40% by redesigning a tech stack in line with a software as a service (SaaS) tech stack.Recognized by colleagues as a subject matter expert who projects competency and excellence, Gaston has built industry-recognized infrastructure, including transitioning from consolidated market data feeds to a low-latency direct feed infrastructure. Gaston built infrastructure to digitize music at Sony Music Entertainment during the iTunes launch, transforming the music industry and speed to market.

Skills

• Microsoft Sql Server
• Solution Architecture
• Software Project Management
• System Deployment
• Servers
• Requirements Analysis
• Management
• Team Building
• Enterprise Architecture
• Market Data
• Windows 7
• Vendor Relations
• Vendor Relationships
• Agile Project Management
• Server Architecture
• Product Management
• Data Center
• Vendor Management
• Windows
• System Administration
• C#
• .net
• Linux
• Architecture
• Xml
• IT Management
• Dns
• Program Management
• Low Latency
• System Architecture
• IT Operations
• Project Management
• IT Strategy
• Mysql
• Sharepoint
• Soa
• Tcp/Ip
• Networking
• Citrix
• Troubleshooting