Walter Vides
Staff Platform Engineer @Pixaera
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WORK HISTORY
Staff Platform Engineer @Pixaera
Currently - Driving infrastructure and architecture projects and decisions across the whole organisation, shaping the future of the companyDelivered- Rebuilt company infrastructure from unstable unobservable ECS to EKS with Karpenter- Crated the Tech radar of the company including AI tools- Provisioned GPU based capacity and pipelines for game dev team Multi cloud with AWS and GCP- Defined a process to fulfil customer trust questionnaires assisted by AI - Defined a process to track customer commitments- Driving structure and processes definition for engineering/non engineering teams assisted by AI- Driving AI initiatives and education company wide- Migrated all workloads to EKS in weeks- Auto-scaling infrastructure using Karpenter (spot + on-demand)- Cost-efficient scaling based on traffic- GitOps deployments with ArgoCD- Kubernetes operators (ALB, cert-manager, external-dns, Datadog, etc.)- Migrated databases to Aurora- Implemented keyless AWS access with IRSA- Built company-wide infrastructure documentation + docs-as-codeImpact:From fragile infrastructure to a stable, observable, and secure platform. This is now backbone of company growth, improving reliability, security, and developer productivityMulti-region & scalable Infrastructure as CodeRewrote all Terraform into a scalable multi-region model- New environments provisioned in under 30 minutes- Expansion to any region with minimal code- Secure account separation- Standardized VPC topology- Consistent, repeatable deploymentsImpact- Enabled global expansion without re-architecture- Developer enablement & automation- Full observability with Datadog- Reusable GitHub Actions for CI/CD- Atlantis for auditable infra changes- Dependabot security automation- Replaced OpenVPN with Tailscale- Improved service consistencyImpact:10x Faster releases, safer deployments, higher developer autonomy- Key contributor to ISO 27001:2022- Led remediation & pen-test fixes
EDUCATION
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Engineer's degree, Computer Science
SKILLS
ABOUT WALTER VIDES
Always learning, I enjoy challenges
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