Fernando Villalba

“While we were working together in Monese, Fernando took the responsibility of completely overhauling the configuration and secret management solutions we had in Monese, he designed it to be production grade at any scale possible, and implementing a completely secure and disaster resistance HashiCorp Vault based secret management solution with Consul as backend has proved to have made our entire stack more secure than ever. Given the complexity involved in designing those systems he still managed to develop tools around it for management purposes. And just with the help of these tools, since he left we had implemented the exact same solution without a single code change in 5 different environments, The consistency and the ease of managing it made possible only because of the quality of Terraform code it was designed with and the efforts he had put in designing those supporting python and bash based tools! His solution still remains the most widely used tool and with one of the best Infrastructure as code available for us to maintain! And because of that, it has been almost 3 years now since its production release and we didn’t even have one - even minor - issue with it! Talking about his craze for GCP, He is certainly the biggest GCP advocate and enthusiast I would ever know. And his extensive knowledge and experience on GCP has been the reason he is so passionate about GCP services. His fluency on GCP can be clearly seen with the depth of his knowledge in one of the most popular Medium blog ( https://nandovillalba.medium.com/why-i-think-gcp-is-better-than-aws-ea78f9975bda ) post there is on comparing two biggest cloud provider, which he authored, and it was read by thousands of readers and has nearly 5K medium claps, where he explains why GCP is way ahead of its time than AWS! - The popularity of this post speaks of his extensive knowledge and experience on the platform. Lastly I would love to mention that Fernando has been a great mentor, a wonderful friend and the most skilful DevOps engineer I have come across! a true genius at his work, any team would be extremely lucky to have him on their side!”

“Fernando truly embraces the DevOps philosophy. I have seen him work closely and reach out to many people in the organization to push forward a DevOps mindset. He played a key role in building our infrastructure, set standards, and streamline our delivery pipelines. Fernando is a real people person that will bring developers, ops, and product management together with innovative ideas along the way.”