About

Hi there 👋🏾

I'm Sergio Francisco, a seasoned Cloud Architect and DevOps Expert with over 15 years of IT experience, including 8 years in Cloud and DevOps.

I help companies grow their business by designing and deploying highly available, secure, cost-effective, and high-performing applications on cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP, as well as delivering software more rapidly and securely with optimal DevOps solutions.

Clients and Projects

Throughout these years, I have gained valuable experience helping companies across various industries, including education, media, fintech, consultancy, healthcare, and web3/crypto, as well as companies of all sizes, from startups to enterprises.

These are the lovely clients with whom I have had the privilege to work recently:

I will soon publish a case study detailing each project I delivered for these companies. In the meantime, you can view the details of these projects on my LinkedIn profile.

What I do

I can help you with the following services:

• Cloud Foundations & Migration

  • Establishing solid foundations to migrate your workloads

  • Cloud migration data transfer and validation

• Infrastructure & DevOps Modernization

  • Creating and maintaining fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment

  • Improving the release cycle by reducing deployment time

  • Reducing infrastructure costs and footprint

  • Building and improving infrastructure performance, availability, scalability, and security

• Application Modernization

• Cloud Security & Compliance

How I do

My vast experience with Infrastructure-as-code, Containers, and CI/CD, especially utilizing tools like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions, has allowed me to contribute to numerous successful projects.

⚒ My infrastructure toolbelt includes:

• Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud (GCP) - I'm a certified professional in both platforms. Digital Ocean.

• Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform and Ansible

• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ECS Fargate

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Flux, CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines

• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, New Relic, Sentry

• Languages: Bash and Python

• SQL Databases: MySQL and PostgreSQL

• Networking: VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, Firewalls, VPNs (Ipsec)

• Other: Linux (CentOS/Red Hat/Ubuntu), DevOps, DevSecOps, Serverless, Deployment Automation, Nginx, Tomcat, Git, GitOps.

🏅I also hold the following certifications:

• KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002)

• Google Cloud: Cloud Engineer (Associate)

• CompTIA Network+ Certification

Why Sergio Francisco?

If you're wondering why you should choose to work with me, check out these reasons:

1. Seasoned Consultant: Since February 2022, I've successfully delivered Cloud and DevOps projects for US companies in many sectors: education, transportation, healthcare, media, web3/crypto, etc.

2. Customer-centric approach: I prioritize understanding customer problems, goals, and issues before considering technology. This commitment ensures that my proposed solutions are practical and aligned with the client's needs. I want to make my clients feel valued and understood.

3. Strong communicator: I enjoy working closely with other engineers, project managers, and stakeholders to meet project requirements. This ability facilitates my collaboration in practical project execution.

4. Adaptability: My understanding of diverse business needs has been crucial in delivering successful Infrastructure and DevOps services.

Get in touch

😉 Does that sound good to you?

🤝 If so, let's work together to achieve your business goals.

📞 Send me a message, and let's schedule a call to discuss your needs!