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Gerardo Lucero

Platform Engineer & Solutions Architect

I architect platforms that engineering teams actually use — combining distributed systems design (Kafka, Kubernetes), security-by-default pipelines (DevSecOps across 1,200+ repositories), and Internal Developer Platforms that reduce delivery friction from days to minutes. 7+ years in fintech and retail, where 'it works' is never enough.

7+ Years in platform & distributed systems
1,200+ Repositories standardized (DevSecOps)
3 IDPs shipped to production
architect.ts
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  experience: "7+ years",
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What I do

Platform Engineering & IDP

Internal Developer Platforms on Kubernetes — golden paths, self-service provisioning, Backstage, ArgoCD, Vault. Onboarding a new service in minutes, not days.

BackstageKubernetesArgoCDVaultGo

Distributed Systems

Event-driven architectures with Kafka and SQS. Hexagonal design, end-to-end observability with Dynatrace & Prometheus.

KafkaSQSDynatraceGrafana

DevSecOps & Security

Secure CI/CD pipelines with SAST, DAST, policy-as-code and container hardening. Compliance-ready infrastructure for regulated financial environments.

GitHub ActionsSAST/DASTCosignSBOMPolicy-as-Code

Tech Stack

Cloud & Infra
AWSGCPAzure DevOpsKubernetesBackstageArgoCDVaultIstioKyvernoOpenShiftDockerTerraform
Streaming & Messaging
Apache KafkaSQSPub/SubEvent-driven
Observability
DynatraceGrafanaPrometheusSLO/SLIDistributed Tracing
Languages & Frameworks
JavaGoPythonJavaScriptSpring BootSpring AINode.jsReact.js
DevSecOps
GitHub ActionsSASTDASTCosignTrivyGitleaksSBOMFalcoPolicy-as-Code
Data
MongoDBPostgreSQLDynamoDBFirebase

Let's build something together

Looking for a solutions architect or DevSecOps engineer? I'd love to hear about your challenges.