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Samuel Baena

Senior Platform Engineer Site Reliability Engineer Devops Engineer
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ABOUT ME

Hello there! I'm Samuel, a Senior Platform Engineer.
I have a passion for infrastructure at scale, diversity and inclusion, impact and helping other people grow. Good vibes are a must for me and I consider myself tenacious and a team player.
In my spare time I like to watch F1, basketball, spend time with my family and learning new things.

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EXPERIENCE

  • Senior Platform Engineer

    Docplanner 2025-current
  • Senior Infrastructure Engineer

    Stenn 2024-2025

    · Foster, teach and upscale a Platform vision and philosophy.
    · Design, implement and secure key infrastructure projects at company level

  • Senior Cloud SRE

    Glovo 2019-2024

    As a Site Reliability Engineer in Glovo, my job consists in designing and providing infrastructure solutions for the entire organization. Some examples of my work are:
    • Bootstrapping, scaling and maintaining all the kubernetes clusters in the company serving tens of millions of orders a week.
    • Led the adoption of Kubernetes and successfully implemented multiple CD transitions using a GitOps approach, significantly improving efficiency and scalability.
    • Started as one of the first system engineers in a small team and progressed to leading the Infrastructure Runtime team within the Platform Cluster, ensuring 24x7 availability for a high-volume business with over a million orders per day.
    • Recruited, managed, and mentored a diverse team of engineers at various career stages, fostering growth and development within the organization.

  • Junior Systems Engineer

    Ofertia 2018-2019

    Started as a Help Desk, quickly jumping into Systems Engineering.
    Tasks included managing the infrastructure, automating manual processes and migrating old infrastructure to Kubernetes while supporting the developers.

SKILLS

Cloud (AWS, Azure) 90%
Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm, Docker) 95%
IaaC (Terraform, Terraform Cloud) 95%
CI/CD (Argo, Github Actions, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Ansible) 80%

Monitoring (Datadog, Grafana) 85%
GNU/Linux administration (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Centos) 75%
Scripting (Python, Shell, Golang) 70%
SDLC (Jira, Confluence, Github) 90%

STUDIES

  • CFGS Network Systems Administration (Second year)

    Institut Jaume Balmes 2018-2019

    - Linux LPI

    - Systems administration (Ubuntu Server, Windows Server)

    - Web servers (Apache)

    - Databases (Mysql, Postgresql)

    - XML

    - IT security

  • CFGS Network Systems Administration (First year)

    IES Escola del Treball 2017-2018

    - Linux LPI

    - Linux Systems Administration (Red Hat/Fedora, Debian)

    - Network administration and maintenance (TCP/IP)

    - Cisco (IOS , Devices)

    - Scripting (Python, Bash)

    - Database administration (Postgresql)

  • Computer Maintenance & Repair course

    AIP Barcelona 2018-2019

    - Hardware maintenance

    - Helpdesk

    - Troubleshooting

    - OS setup

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