Andres LeonRangel

Platform Engineer - DevOps Mindset

Auckland , New Zealand

Expert cloud engineer, DevSecOps resilient solutions, SRE, and high-velocity software delivery

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Andres Leon-Rangel
  • Andres Leon-Rangel
  • December 10, 1990
  • New Zealand
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  • www.andres.nz

Currently serving at Accenture Serving from Sept 2021

Hands-on Cloud Software Engineer with over a decade of experience in driving cloud adoption and modernization for global enterprises. Specialized in AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a knack for architecting secure, resilient cloud solutions. A passionate, practical learner and problem solver, contributing to New Zealand’s booming IT sector. Proficient in design, development, deployment, and optimization of cloud-native applications and DevSecOps best practices. Instrumental in migrating legacy systems to the public cloud AWS, Azure and GCP.

My Soft Skills
Problem-solving

I love creativity in solutions, the value of sketching and modelling systems to see different perspectives. To solve a problem identify the problem first. The approach I learned

Creativity

I have never had a day at work that feels the same. Working in the career that you choose should be fun! Work has purpose and should be fun and enjoyable. A mindset like that allows a creative mind to flow and thrive

TeamWork

Ability to easily adapt true interest in people. Every person is a complete universe and all skills play a role in the achievement of goals for the team

Technical Skills

DevOps Mindset

A collaborative, experimental mindset to create high quality processes and products.

Infrastructure & Systems

Systems Thinking problem solving skills developing, installing, configuring, managing, monitoring, tweaking and even reporting bugs. Some of the systems i have worked with: TIBCO, Financial Back ends, stock exchange legacy systems, a Huge Telco environment, Enterprise Service Buses, Service Oriented Computing. My main expertise is Cloud Computing with AWS and Azure. I have experimented with Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud


Inspirational Quote

Formulating a problem is more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of math or experimental skill. Creative imagination raises new questions, new possibilities,a new angle to regard old problems... marks real advances in science.
Albert Einstein

Programming languages and SQL Data Storage

Definetely love them. I started learning the basics with pseudo code to evolve my learning into basic C the GrandFather of languages. I went to develop a simple video game in Java to learn Object Oriented Programming concepts. Python came to my life to help solve automation problems. Javascript has been useful to me.
SQL=Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Informix.

Andres Leon Rangel CV

Industry Knowledge
Micro Services Architecture
SOA
90%
Docker Containers
65%
Sofware Engineering
65%
Automation
35%
Programming Skills
Java
85%
Python
60%
Bash
70%
PHP
30%
Soft Skills
Persistence
85%
Creativity
95%
TOOLS, PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES
Music
60%
Sport
95%
Reading
85%
Languages and hobbies Skills
English
Fluent - Bilingual
Español
Native
Português
40%
Reading
85%
Scuba Diving
Love NZ diving!
Travelling
Exploring NZ
My Resume
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Work Experience
  • DevOps Engineer 2018 - 2020
    Deref New Zealand

    Actively involved in CI/CD for different clients. Containerise apps, deliver them via IaaC. Run and monitor the clouds specially AWS. Automate with Python and bash. Deliver software with a mix of products Atlassian, Jenkins, Spinnaker.

  • Software Process Developer 2015 - 2017
    Iron Mountain Colombia

    In short, I released the first BPMS as a Service for a health and nutrition client in Colombia, South America.

  • Integration Developer 2013 - 2015
    Bogota Telco ETB

    As member of the ESB team I monitored production, managed dev and Prod env, delivered many automated web services to ensure integrity of the system. I contributed an automated reporting system that encrypts reports in an SFTP.
    Worked as part of 2 companies for the same client Wipro and SQDM

  • Software Developer 2011 - 2013
    Colombian Stock Exchange

    Sopohos bankings solutions hired me to be full time at client location. Developer for the web portal and Integration service Bus. Achieved the creation of a service to transfer data from mainframe database to the transactional system DB.


Education
  • Master Service Computing 2017 - 2018
    Auckland University of Technology AUT New Zealand

    MSOC masters: built on my professional experience in the information technology industry. Cloud computing, service science and service-oriented computing. latest trends in practice and research. Research on BPMS with IoT in the cloud.

  • Bachelor Systems Engineer 2010 - 2015
    Catholic University of Colombia

    A 5 year super cool degree. Thesis in learning software for children in a SOA Service Oriented Architecture


Internships
Volunteering
  • Evangelism Explosion NZ 2018 - 2020

    Content manager and web developer for the website.


    I started Volunteering in 2014 for one school in a slum from Colombia. The experience encouraged me to proceed.


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Professional Timeline

Blog - IT Blogposts


100 docker-compose stacks in 1 EC2 instance
  • Active Quora Discussions
  • January 10, 2020
  • by Andres Leon Rangel
  • docker, AWS EC2, #webDev, #DevOps

DevOps the frugal way...

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First BPMS as a Service in Colombia
  • Active forum Discussions
  • October 10, 2016
  • by Andres Leon Rangel
  • DevOps, software development, CI/CD

The automation of a billing process running in a private cloud. The process was offered to Abbott (company that produces Ensure health drink). An Amazing project that started me as a DevOps engineer without knowing what it truly meant!

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Feels like Andres married computers...
  • Active Quora Discussions
  • July 23, 2018
  • by Sweanie Larie Flores Leon
  • Inspiring, DevOps, love, curiosity, writing, thoughts, girlsTech

My wife gives an interesting view on DevOps. Her background is non-IT. She is a great nurse who became a children's teacher by passion.

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  • Adress: Auckland , New Zealand

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