Iker Blanco

SecDevOps Manager

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About Me

I started my career in IT as a Support Engineer during my studies. I then became a System Administrator and continued to grow as a professional on companies related to R&D on different fields.

Having dedicated a decade to managing Networks, Firewalls and Linux/Windows servers, I decided to take on the challenge of working on a new project: Designing and Building the architecture for an Industry 4.0 project as an IT Solutions Architect at Vixion Connected Machine. I then moved into bigger AWS focused projects, managing Infrastructure teams working on projects big and small.

During those years, I also worked as a freelance IT Manager for a small company and have also taken on small consulting jobs and imparted courses about Docker, DevOps and CI/CD. I'm always looking for new opportunities and challenges, specially freelance gigs. Learning new things and trying out new stuff are part of my motivation. New roles are of my interest if I can accompany the software end to end - from planning, implementation, deployment and then towards monitoring.

Contact Information

  • Location:
    Lezo, ES

Skills & Expertise

Proficient

CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Gitlab CI, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Docker, AWS, Agile Methodologies, Team Leadership

Comfortable

Python, Django, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, MySQL, Packer, Puppet, Nginx

Familiar

Azure, NodeJS, NextJS, InfluxDB, MongoDB

Professional Experience

SecDevOps Manager at Enigmedia

May 2022–Current
  • In charge of the overall SDLC for the internal projects related to securing Industrial Networks.
  • Design and implement CI/CD pipelines to guarantee that all the security checks
    • Tech Stack: Bitbucket, Sonar, Dependencytrack, OWASP
  • Application Monitoring, Log centralization and tracing across projects
    • Tech Stack: Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Tempo, OpenTelemetry

Founder at Obsidian Solutions

Sept 2019–Current
  • Process automation using Python and Selenium
  • Cloud infrastructure management and monitoring
  • API Development (Django)
  • Full Stack development
  • Project Management

Tech Stack: Python, Django, Selenium, NodeJS, NextJS, VueJS, PostgreSQL, SonarQube, Dependencytrack, Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki

IT Manager at Lurmetrika Labs

Jun 2017–Current
  • Building and maintaining the IT Infrastructure
  • Data Mining with Python and Scrapy
  • Database Administration (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

Head of DevOps at MrMilu

Feb 2021–Jun 2022
  • Design and implement the infrastructure from instances to LBs, networks, security policies and Amazon Services on multiple projects on AWS
    • Tech Stack: Terraform, Packer, Ansible, ArgoCD, Helm, Helmfile, EKS, ECR, Docker
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines
    • Tech Stack: Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket
  • Monitoring and Log centralization across multiple cloud providers and projects
    • Tech Stack: Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, AWS, Digital Ocean, Hetzner, OVH, SoYouStart
  • Supervise and plan the workload of the DevOps team
    • Stack: Agile, Scrum

CTO at Vixion Connected Machine

Mar 2019–Feb 2021
  • Developing technical aspects of the company's strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals
  • Supervising system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
  • Designing and implementing new services
  • Supervising and planning the workload of the development team
  • Tech Stack: Oracle cloud, PostgreSQL, NodeJS, Angular, Linux, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI/CD

Collaborating Teaching Staff at AEG Ikastetxea

Oct 2019–Jun 2020
  • Agile Development methodologies
  • Git / Git Flow
  • Intro to programming in Python
  • Multiplatform development challenges

Information Technology Solutions Architect at Vixion Connected Machine

Feb 2018–Mar 2019
  • Designing and building the infrastructure to develop an Industry 4.0 product.
  • Converting an R&D project into a sellable product.
  • Migrating multiple projects to Oracle Cloud
  • Migrating multiple projects to Kubernetes

Education

Computer Engineering

Universidad Isabel I

FPII - Computer Systems Administration

IES Plaiaundi BHI

Hobbies & Interests

I've been a computer week for as long as I can remember. I try to balance my passion for computers with Tabletop Games, Dungeons & Dragons and Rollerblading.

I am a Cat person (even if we have a dog too) that considers WFH a must in the current world and I love spending most of my time at my home-office, be it working, learning or dedicating time to my hobbies.

3D Printing has peeked my interest lately and will probably end up with a printer soon :)