Natural techie with experience ranging from the technical to the human and strategic aspects of IT.
Passionate for Free Software platforms and always striving to find business models based on them, working hard on standardization, systems integration and service-oriented architectures, always keeping focus in high availability and reliability.
Broad experience in almost all levels of the IT career, from user support to teaching, system administration, database performance, systems architecture and strategic planning.
Educated in Sysadmin and DBA specialties, I have developed good communication and politic skills through international experience, enforcing sustainability and scalability of products and teams while steadily emerging as a reliable team leader.
Specialties:
General IT strategy
Product development
Quality assurance
Reusability, reliability, sustainability and scalability
Technical leadership and management
Systems engineering and architecture
Database performance
Teaching & training
DevOps Engineer @ Implement monitoring system of the AWS service stack, as well as an alerting system and automated
scaling strategies. As the product is just being launched now, also heavily involved in the
architecture of the services for a platform aiming to get 1 million users by the end of 2015. From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Berlin Area, GermanySystem Administrator @ From April 2014 to September 2015 (1 year 6 months) Berlin Area, GermanyDevelopment Manager @ Team manager for two projects, in charge of two teams of 8 and 5 people respectively.
Responsible for aligning both projects with the technical direction of the company, reimplementing solutions and services across teams with main focus in quality and reliability of products.
Responsible for teams' organization and resources, coordination with other Development Managers and Sysadmins in the company, and connection point with the company's management. Close cooperation with the organizational direction of the company setting standards for both technical and development resources. From March 2013 to January 2014 (11 months) Shanghai City, ChinaTech Lead @ Technical leadership in assigned team to re-build a social network site from scratch, reimplementing solutions developed as Sysadmin and ensuring quality and reliability of the product.
Organizational role inside of Scrum methodology and across the whole company in finding standard solutions for all the websites built. From April 2012 to March 2013 (1 year) System Administrator @ Part of an excellent Sysadmin team in charge of high concurrent social websites. Improved scalability, reliability and monitorization of services. Implementation of new services to maximize high availability.
Main responsible for database performance mainly over MySQL, in charge of optimization of table structures, indexes and query analyzing. Working with the dev teams to improve querying and caching strategies. Working with sysadmins to implement data partition and sharding, and moving specific data to no-sql solutions. Research and implementation of Percona's XtraDB solutions, creation of tools to monitor and analyze query performance, developing in-house training for developers to raise awareness and early optimization of their code.
Worked with Nginx, Php-fpm Mysql, Rabbitmq, Xmpp, Postfix, Memcached, Mongodb, Nagios, Graphite. From October 2009 to March 2012 (2 years 6 months) Shanghai City, ChinaIT Analyst and Founder @ System architecture and maintenance for international companies operating in China.
Office software standardization, implementation of free software platforms and services, international support on workstations and remote support for clients. From March 2008 to October 2009 (1 year 8 months) Freelance ISIS Analyst & Consultant @ Worked as consultant for Unesco's CDS/ISIS database users in different projects in a freelance basis. From January 2000 to October 2009 (9 years 10 months) IT manager @ Developing IT projects.
Installing and maintaining Linux Servers for email and web services.
Basic network and computers maintenance. From January 2008 to February 2009 (1 year 2 months) Technical Translator @ Translating technical documents into Spanish From 2007 to 2009 (2 years) IT manager @ System administrator and Customer support.
Managing email and web servers based on Courier and Postfix, authenticated through OpenLDAP.
Managing client's ADSL connections and dialup authentication systems based on Kerberos
Improving high available, load-balanced web systems.
Creating and maintaining email anti-virus & anti-spam filters using Amavis and Spamassassin, as well as creating in-house custom-made firewall systems that analyze incoming smtp traffic to block offending connections on iptables level. From 2006 to 2007 (1 year) IT manager @ System administrator and Customer support.
Design, implementation and training for client's platforms and solutions. From 2004 to 2007 (3 years) Developer @ Freelance developer for an internal datamining project. From 2004 to 2004 (less than a year) Teacher @ Teaching unemployed people GNU/Linux Management as a part of the national unemployment service trainings program. From 2003 to 2004 (1 year) Scholarship @ Scholarship at OEI department, planning and writing contents for a GNU/Linux management course. From 2002 to 2003 (1 year) Developer @ Developing a client's business magement system. From 2002 to 2002 (less than a year) IT manager @ System administrator.
Database administrator and developer.
Design and web publishing of relational databases.
Developing programs for internal and external treatment of databases.
Client's helpdesk and support. From 1999 to 2002 (3 years) Database operator @ Database operator during migration process. From 1998 to 1999 (1 year) Database operator @ Database operator during migration progress From 1997 to 1998 (1 year) Computers Teacher @ Teaching basic Windows and advanced Office suite usage to employees of the company From 1996 to 1997 (1 year)
Bachelor, IT @ Universidad Politécnica de Madrid From 1997 to 2006 Kali (Adolfo) Hernández is skilled in: MySQL, Linux, Scrum, System Administration, PHP, Bash, Virtualization, Server Architecture, Nginx, Databases, SQL, Web Servers, Memcached, Scalability, Web Applications
Websites:
http://www.llevamedeviaje.es,
http://www.varadai.es