Cristian Alonso

About Me

I'm Cristian, a Software Engineer based in Barcelona, Spain. Certified in Kubernetes, Terraform, and GCP with +2 years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure and automation, seeking to leverage expertise in building scalable and secure systems.

I'm passionate about Kubernetes, Cloud infrastructure, automation, security, best practices and helping people achieve their goals.

Problem solver with strong communication and adaptability skills, capable of prioritizing high volumes of work based on issue severity and internal SLAs, ensuring efficient and organized task management.

For the last two years I’ve been testing technologies in my virtualized environments and personal K8s Homelab based on kubeadm.

GCP

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

Java

Technologies & Skills

Languages and Frameworks

Infrastructure & DevOps

Cloud Services

AWS

EC2, ECS, EKS

VPC, NACLs, Security Groups, Peering, Transit Gateway ...

EBS, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, Aurora ...

IAM

AWS CLI

GCP

Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine

VPC, VPN, Peering, Cloud Firewall, Cloud Interconnect

Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage

IAM

GCP CLI

Security & Networking

IAM & Security Policies

SSL/TLS

VPCs and Subnetting

DNS & CDN

Reverse Proxies

Firewalls

Project Showcase

High Available AWS EKS cluster with an unmanaged EC2 Autoscaling group

Designed and implemented a HA AWS EKS Cluster using Terraform.

AWS Terraform HCL Bash Kubernetes Git

View on GitHub →

Home Server & Kubernetes Lab

Built a Home Server and K8s lab with 3 appliances: Security, Server, NAS with several services exposed to the internet using Cloudflare Tunnels, Docker and Traefik reverse proxy.