# Ignacio Silvera Queijas **Platform Engineer · Kubernetes & GitOps** > Making the right way the easy way. - Location: Madrid, Spain - Email: silveraignacio@gmail.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/silvera-ignacio - GitHub: https://github.com/silveraignacio - Website: https://ignaciosilvera.com ## Summary Platform Engineer with 10+ years in Linux and production infrastructure, from bare metal and on-prem to AWS and Azure. Currently runs an Internal Developer Platform and 20+ production Kubernetes clusters at Ionik Tech. Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and HashiCorp Terraform Associate. Day to day: GitOps with ArgoCD and FluxCD, Terraform and Ansible, Prometheus and Grafana, zero-downtime upgrades and root-cause analysis of production incidents. Uses AI-assisted development daily, builds and operates TriBathon, a SaaS product for streamers, end to end, and is developing RivalSweep, a competitor-monitoring SaaS. ## Experience ### Platform Engineer — [Ionik Tech](https://ioniktech.io), Madrid *Aug 2025 – Present* - Design and build the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), so engineering teams provision infrastructure themselves instead of waiting on tickets. - Operate 20+ production Kubernetes clusters running hundreds of microservices, with a focus on availability and cost. - Plan and run zero-downtime upgrades across the fleet, coordinating with teams in several countries. - Provision servers and network configuration with Terraform and Ansible, keeping UAT and Production in step. - Lead GitOps adoption with ArgoCD and FluxCD, so every deployment is traceable to a reviewed commit. - Own monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana, and lead root-cause analysis of complex production incidents. Technologies: Kubernetes, Crossplane, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, FluxCD, Prometheus, Grafana, Helm, Linux. ### DevOps Engineer — [The Workshop (Inventors of Play)](https://theworkshop.com), Madrid *Jun 2022 – Aug 2025* - CDN team: helped build a custom content delivery network, took part in the end-to-end rollout of its new UAT environment and drove GitOps adoption with FluxCD and ArgoCD. - Improved monitoring and observability, led incident response and failure analysis, and wrote the SOPs the team operated from. - Internal Development team: automated internal workflows, optimised CI/CD pipelines and standardised tooling and deployment practices across teams. - Platform Engineering team: helped design and build production infrastructure as code and the Kubernetes platform, working with engineering teams to ship faster. Technologies: Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, FluxCD, Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Bash. ### Senior Systems Administrator — [Skydance Animation](https://www.skydance.com/animation), Madrid *Sep 2021 – May 2022* - Deployed a Linux render farm on bare-metal servers. - Ran the internal Linux services (mostly Ubuntu) used by artists and pipeline teams, and wrote Terraform for the AWS environments. Technologies: Linux, Ansible, Terraform, AWS, Docker. ### DevOps Engineer — Technisys, Montevideo *Feb 2021 – Aug 2021* - Provisioned Azure and on-prem environments for internal development teams, plus the CI/CD tooling around them, including pipelines for iOS and Android apps. - Deployed and ran workloads on AKS with Helm. Technologies: Azure DevOps, Azure Container Registry, AKS, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Helm, Docker. ### Linux Administrator / DevOps — [Atos](https://atos.net), Montevideo *Sep 2015 – Feb 2021* - Administered Red Hat, CentOS and Debian servers and the application servers on them (Tomcat, JBoss). - Ran high-availability setups with httpd, keepalived and PostgreSQL, under ITIL and ISO 27001 practices. - Delivered AWS projects (EC2, ECS, RDS, Route 53, ALB), automated with Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform and Nexus. - Worked on Uruguayan health-sector projects built on InterSystems HealthShare. Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, VMware, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, Bash, nginx, Apache, Zabbix, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB. ### Earlier experience - **Linux Administrator — NetLabs, Montevideo** (May 2015 – Aug 2015): Linux administration for enterprise clients (Netgate, HG). - **System Administrator — Altimetrik, Montevideo** (Sep 2012 – May 2015): Administered company servers (Active Directory, Linux, Apache, Tomcat, Radius); user support and data-center / structured-cabling maintenance across Windows, macOS and Linux. - **Technician — Olidata Uruguay, Montevideo** (Jun 2011 – Dec 2011): Hardware repair of notebooks, netbooks and desktops, including Plan Ceibal devices (XO 1.0/1.5, JumPC). ## Personal projects ### TriBathon — Founder & Engineer (https://tribathon.live) A subathon timer for streamers. Subs, donations and follows from Twitch, Kick, YouTube and StreamElements add time to one live countdown on stream. - Designed, built and launched it alone: product, code, billing and production infrastructure. - Astro and React frontend, Express and TypeScript API with PostgreSQL, Redis queues and Socket.IO for the live overlay; Paddle subscriptions and live integrations with Twitch, Kick, YouTube and StreamElements. - Built with AI-assisted development; the DevOps side (CI/CD, hosting, day-to-day operations) is where my experience does the work. Technologies: Astro, React, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, Redis, Socket.IO, Docker Compose, Paddle. ### RivalSweep — Founder & Engineer (https://rivalsweep.com) Competitor monitoring for B2B SaaS teams. It watches public pricing, product, integration and positioning pages and turns the changes that matter into evidence-backed alerts and a weekly briefing. Early stage and still evolving. - Building it alone, from product scope to production: crawling and diff pipeline, AI-assisted classification of changes, and the customer app. - Django API with Celery workers, PostgreSQL and Redis, and a Next.js frontend, deployed with Docker Compose behind Cloudflare. Technologies: Django, Celery, PostgreSQL, Redis, Next.js, Docker Compose, Cloudflare. ### ignaciosilvera.com — This website (https://ignaciosilvera.com/notes/how-this-site-is-built) Static Astro site generated from a single typed data file, which also emits machine-readable versions of this CV for AI agents (llms.txt, Markdown, JSON Resume). - Zero client-side JavaScript; the same data renders the web page, the printable CV, the PDF and the notes feed. - Deployed on Cloudflare straight from the repository as static assets: every branch gets a preview URL, and the build fails if the committed PDF drifts from the data. Technologies: Astro, TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers, Playwright. ## Skills - **Containers & Orchestration:** Kubernetes (CKA), RKE2, OpenShift, AKS, Helm, Docker - **IaC & Config Management:** Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, Crossplane - **CI/CD & GitOps:** ArgoCD, FluxCD, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Pipelines - **Observability:** Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki, Zabbix, InfluxDB, Telegraf - **Cloud:** AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, Route 53, ALB), Azure (AKS, ACR) - **Networking & Service Mesh:** Istio, Cilium, nginx, Apache, Load balancers, HA (keepalived) - **Databases:** PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch - **Languages & Scripting:** Python, Bash - **Platforms & Practices:** Red Hat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, VMware, ITIL, ISO 27001 - **AI & Automation:** AI-assisted development, n8n workflow automation ## Certifications - Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) — LF-i9ylsg5wmo - HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003) - Zabbix Certified Professional — CP1711-13 - Zabbix Certified Specialist — CS1711-28 - Red Hat Certified Specialist in Virtualization — 190-285-668 ## Education - Degree, Computer Science / Information Technologies — Universidad de la Empresa (UDE), Montevideo (2016) - Technician, Operating Systems and Networks — Universidad ORT, Montevideo (2012–2015) - Professional Development Plan, Information Security — Universidad ORT, Montevideo (2015) ## Languages - Spanish: Native - English: Professional working proficiency