Portrait of Federico Barceló

Sr. L4 DevOps Engineer · Xops

Federico Barceló

I build calm, observable platforms that help teams ship fast without drama.

Focus right now

  • Multi-cloud landing zones
  • SLO-driven reliability & runbooks
  • DevEx paved paths & previews
  • Policy-as-code & supply chain security
  • FinOps guardrails for scale
  • Incident readiness & game days

Skills

Cloud platforms

Architecture, governance, and deployment of scalable multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Infrastructure as Code

Automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM; enforcing tagging and environment standards.

Containers & orchestration

Containerization with Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes and Helm.

CI/CD pipelines

End-to-end delivery with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc., including preview environments and automated promotion.

Testing & quality automation

Unit testing, integration tests in CI/CD, linting, code coverage tools.

Monitoring & observability

Metrics collection (Prometheus), visualization (Grafana), and log aggregation (ELK Stack).

Resilience & chaos engineering

Game days, failure injection, and iterative hardening to validate recovery paths before production incidents.

Security

Identity and access control (IAM, RBAC, OIDC), secrets management, secure configuration practices.

DevSecOps

CI/CD security scanning, policy-as-code, secrets rotation, and container/image hardening.

Networking

Network segmentation, routing, security groups, DNS zones, VPN connectivity, and private endpoints.

Scripting & automation

Workflow automation using Bash, Python, and PowerShell.

Operating systems

System administration on Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS) and Windows Server.

Version control systems

Git-based workflows with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, and AWS CodeCommit.

FinOps & cost optimization

Cloud spend analysis, resource rightsizing, tagging strategies, and usage-based scaling.

Soft skills

Leadership & mentoring, collaboration & alignment, security-driven decisions, problem-solving under pressure, and clear communication.

Clients & collaborations

Selected teams I've partnered with to ship resilient platforms and high-traffic experiences.

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Adidas logo
Google logo
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Spotify logo
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Levis logo
Disney logo
Burger King logo
Billet logo
EA Sports logo
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Values

  • Calm operations through clarity: great runbooks, SLOs, and small batches.
  • Developer experience is a product—paved paths, fast feedback loops, and safety nets.
  • Teach by doing: pair on incidents, codify learnings, and automate the dull parts.

Teaching & community

Associated teacher on DevOps at Universidad ORT Uruguay. I mentor engineers stepping into SRE/DevOps, run labs on delivery pipelines, and speak about reliability-first culture.