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Gastón Mardones

DevOps Engineer · Platform & DevSecOps

gastonmardones22@gmail.com · +54 294 4321600 · Buenos Aires, Argentinalinkedin.com/in/gastonmardones · github.com/gastonmardones · gastonmardones.dev

DevOps Engineer at the Buenos Aires City Government, operating an OpenShift cluster with 1,000+ namespaces and declarative CI/CD, specialized in troubleshooting platform, observability and pipeline incidents. I am steering my career toward DevSecOps: static analysis and secret detection at scale, software supply chain security and platform hardening. Background in full-stack development; starting a Bachelor's in Data Management and Analytics in 2027.

Work experience

Agencia de Sistemas de Información (ASI) · TECBA · GCBA — DevOps Engineer

  • Technical point of contact for process improvement across development, infrastructure and vendor teams.
  • Built an automated security audit (Python scripts with gitleaks and Semgrep, 1,100+ rules) across ~700 repositories, with consolidated per-project and per-file reports for development teams.
  • Took part in migrating the repositories to a new GitLab platform, resolving the impact on ~570 Tekton pipelines (DNS, SSH credentials and connectivity through F5).
  • Designed with Red Hat the golden path for Red Hat Developer Hub (Backstage) and support its rollout with client teams: pilot applications, template and pipeline gaps, and non-standard cases.
  • Contributed to GitOps secret management with Sealed Secrets: a Tekton pipeline that encrypts secrets and versions them in the manifests repository.
  • Resolved a 100% full Loki WAL: identified a stuck checkpoint as the root cause and recovered the service without restarting pods, preventing log loss.
  • Found that cluster workers had 99% of CPU reserved against 7-43% actual usage, and built an analysis of oversized resource requests across ~4,500 pods.
  • Built Grafana observability dashboards and Python automations with Jira Cloud, and drive a centralized component catalog as the single source of truth for ticketing and observability.

EduAnalytica — Full Stack Web Developer

  • Led the design, development and maintenance of a web management platform for schools.
  • Coordinated a team of 3 developers: task planning, code review and technical mentoring.
  • Gathered requirements from teachers and school staff and turned them into concrete features.
  • Migrated from dedicated servers to VPS, cutting costs, and improved application performance.

Education

Bachelor's in Data Management and Analytics (online) · Universidad Nacional de San Luis (UNSL) · Starting 2027

Certifications

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified Foundations Associate · Oracle · 2025

Languages

Spanish: Native

English: B1 (reading, writing and listening; speaking in progress)

Skills

Platform
OpenShift · Kubernetes · Docker · Linux · Varnish
CI/CD & GitOps
Tekton · ArgoCD · GitLab · Red Hat Developer Hub · Nexus · Git
Security
Sealed Secrets · Keycloak / OIDC · gitleaks · Semgrep · SonarQube
Observability
Loki · Grafana · Elastic / Kibana
Languages
Python · Bash · Django · React
Data
PostgreSQL · MariaDB · OracleDB · MongoDB