Alfonso Long has 8 years of experience in underlying infrastructure and 5 years as a DevOps engineer. He possesses strong expertise in designing systems built on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, for both public and private environments. Alfonso is highly proficient in maintaining and monitoring microservices running on Kubernetes (K8s) and has a keen understanding of software architecture, with a focus on microservices. He is adept at defining and managing cloud infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform and managing traffic with Service Mesh (Istio). Alfonso is skilled in automation scripting in Bash Shell and Python, and is experienced with containerization technologies using Docker. He has extensive experience with source control systems like GIT and in designing and building pipelines for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Jenkins, CircleCI, and GitLab CI/CD. Alfonso has built observability systems with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry and is familiar with system, network, and application monitoring tools like Zabbix and OpManager. His hands-on experience with search engines like ElasticSearch, virtualization technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V, and strong knowledge of log aggregation further contribute to his robust skill set. Additionally, he has experience with database management, including MySQL, Postgres, and MongoDB, and in networking, application performance monitoring, and container performance and security. Alfonso regularly updates his knowledge in new technology trends, keeping his skills current and relevant.