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Jose Manuel Ferrer Mosteiro

DevOps & Infrastructure and MLOps Engineer
Kubernetes • CI/CD • GenAI • Cloud Infra
Madrid, Spain | Remote | jmferrerm@gmail.com | blog | GitHub and GitHub2 | LinkedIn

Profile

20+ years of experience in infrastructure and distributed systems, working closely with Developers and Data Scientists.
Specialized in deploying microservices, storage, and ML models on Kubernetes, automating CI/CD pipelines, and building scalable infra for data-driven products. Passionate about Generative AI, LLMs, and robotics.

Skills

  • Unix administrator with experience in multiple GNU/Linux distributions (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian).
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes and OpenShift on AWS, Azure, and GCE.
  • Strong expertise in private IaaS / PaaS with OpenStack, Kubernetes, OpenShift as well as Docker and KVM.
  • Deep knowledge of FluxCD and ArgoCD.
  • Monitoring with kube-prometheus-stack and Grafana on GKE.
  • Monitoring with ELK stack on GKE.
  • Development of Helm charts for microservice deployments.
  • API Gateways on Kubernetes (Kong and Istio) and integration into app Helm charts.
  • Strong knowledge of public IaaS / PaaS with AWS, Azure, and GCE.
  • Extensive experience with CI/CD systems: Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Concourse.
  • Soft skills to collaborate with developers and data scientists for deploying apps and models.
  • Configuration management (Puppet, Ansible, FluxCD).
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and OpenStack Heat).
  • Programming with Python + Flask, Ruby + Sinatra, Bash, and Perl.
  • Version control systems git and svn.
  • API Manager wso2.
  • Experience deploying and managing distributed systems (ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Logstash, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ).
  • Skills in virtual reality environments (OpenSim, High Fidelity).
  • Ollama, openwebui and continue.dev with my favorite models: gemma3, llama, llava, deepseek-coder/starcoder2, mxbai-embed-large/nomic-embed-large.
  • Building predictive regression and classification models using pandas, scikit-learn, and TensorFlow (AI Master’s program).
  • Basic use of AWS Sagemaker + AWS Lambda + AWS S3 + CloudWatch for data extraction, data wrangling, and CSV-based price prediction (AI Master’s program).
  • Basic Spark DataFrame with Python on a Spark cluster deployed in Kubernetes (AI Master’s program).
  • Basic knowledge of HDFS and Kafka (deployment and usage).
  • Development of a physical agent driven by gemma3 served by Ollama, API built in Flask, with sensors on ESP32 WROOM.

Talks

Education and training

Certifications

Experience

Feb 2023 – Present: Aramis Group

  • Clicars was acquired by Stellantis’ Aramis Group, and we are unifying group processes with colleagues across countries.
  • Daily work in an international environment, improving my English and understanding the challenges of multicultural teams.
  • Built global infrastructure on GKE with Terraform and ArgoCD – a real game changer.
  • Created and maintained Helm charts and base images for the group.
  • Migrated legacy apps to the new infrastructure (100% Infrastructure as Code).
  • Deployment, management, and architecture of apps with multiple dependent services and various storage (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL), caching (Redis), and queues (RabbitMQ).
  • Integrated new apps with legacy group apps.
  • Maintained legacy Clicars infrastructure during migration.
  • Deployment and maintenance of AppSearch and Elasticsearch for group websites.
  • Modified data scientists’ software to run in Kubernetes (batch jobs and Flask APIs).
  • I still enjoy delivering training sessions that shift perspectives and make others’ lives easier.

Dec 2020 – Feb 2023: Clicars

  • Started as the only person handling everything outside of dev, QA, and helpdesk (lots of Kubernetes on Google Cloud, CI/CD, on-prem, …) using the cheapest tech to make the company grow faster.
  • Tried a paradigm shift: empowering teams to take ownership of infrastructure-as-code on Kubernetes and Jenkins pipelines. It didn’t succeed as much as I hoped.
  • Grew the group to two people while keeping that philosophy.
  • One of the most enriching periods of my career, only comparable to my time at Paradigma.
  • Worked with Data Scientists deploying and maintaining Airflow.

Sep 2019 – Dec 2020: Global Data & Content / Solera Inc

  • Founded the DevOps group in EMEA.
  • Worked in an international English-speaking environment.
  • Migration procedures from Pivotal CloudFoundry (PCF) to Pivotal Kubernetes (PKS).
  • Azure Pipelines and Concourse.
  • Azure managed with Terraform deploying apps on AKS.
  • Kubernetes managed with fluxcd.io.
  • Worked with microservices ecosystems in Java, Node, and .Net.
  • Absorbed DevOps tasks from another company with:
    • AWS infra
    • Kubernetes deployed with kops
  • Used Mac (Apple) for CI/CD tasks with iOS and Kubernetes.

Sep 2014 – Sep 2019: Paradigma Digital

  • Trainings on using PaaS and IaaS technologies to implement agile methodologies.
  • Deployment, management, and use of Kubernetes, OpenShift, and OpenStack.
  • Automation and config management with Ansible and Puppet.
  • Deployment and management of Jenkins jobs and pipelines.
  • Docker.
  • Coding in Python and bash.
  • Git.
  • Managing RHEL, Debian, CentOS, and Ubuntu.
  • Deployment and management of ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana inside/outside OpenShift.
  • Deployment and management of MongoDB and Redis with Sentinel or HAProxy.
  • Deployment and management of RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ.
  • HAProxy, nginx, apache.
  • Django.

Feb 2013 – Sep 2014: Eurobits Technologies

  • Implemented ELK to detect performance issues and generate usage reports.
  • Managed data center hosted at Colt.
  • Migrated Nagios to Zabbix.
  • Built an anti-ban proxy system (AWS, Squid, Ruby with Sinatra).

Jun 2007 – Feb 2013: Ándago Ingeniería

  • Developed SaaS app (puppet, ruby, php).
  • ISO 27001 and ISO 20000 consulting.
  • Coraid storage management.
  • Backup (Amanda and BackupPC).
  • Virtualization with Xen.
  • Networking (bind, openvpn, openldap, iptables).
  • Fax service (Hylafax).

Apr 2005 – May 2007: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

  • Helpdesk technician.
  • Technician at the Free Software Office.

May 2004 – Mar 2005: IT Deusto

  • Backup (Solaris 8, Legato Networker 7, Scalar 100 and LTO2).
  • Linux distribution LUC3M.

Feb 2003 – May 2004: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

  • Backup (Legato Networker, Solaris 8).
  • Windows network maintenance.

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