Pedro Alvarez Piedehierro

Manchester, UK
Email: pedro@alvarezpiedehierro.com

Personal Statement

Computer Science Engineer with experience working with Python, Go, and containerised applications. Special interest in automation and reproducibility, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and contributing to open-source projects. Additional experience, in software integration, embedded devices and building Linux systems from scratch. A team player who is always willing to help and share knowledge.

Programming Languages and Tools

Python, Shell, Go, basic knowledge of C++, Rust. Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform. Git, Gerrit/GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, Travis, GitLab CI, GitHub actions, Zuul CI. OpenStack, AWS, OpenNebula. Linux, systemd

Employment History

SoftIron - Senior Systems Engineer (11/2021 - Present)

SoftIron specialises in creating high-performance datacentre hardware and provides appliances for building private clouds. As a senior engineer I am responsible for:

• Lead Kubernetes solutions and integrations: CSI, Rancher, Node Driver, ArgoCD, GPU enablement.
• Deployment and maintenance of internal OpenStack, using kolla-ansible with Ceph.
• Support deployment tooling for the storage solution.
• Integrate external solutions to create strategic partnerships (ownCloud, TrueNAS, Rancher, Filterbox, etc.)
• Manage networking, servers, and services on a datacentre.
• Lead open sourcing effort, and creation of public examples with supporting videos.
• Maintenance of the Marketplace, expanding support for various appliance types, and tools used in the build process

Codethink - Senior Software and Systems Engineer & Tech Lead (08/2013 - 10/2021)

Codethink specialises in software engineering and consulting services, with focus on embedded, software integration, and Open Source. As a senior engineer, I acted as the tech lead on various projects, including:

• Deployment of BuildBarn on OpenStack using Terraform and Ansible, integrating with Zuul CI
• Python autumation to split several projects from SVN into separate Git repositories, including the implementation of a Pull Request workflow.
• Migration of Lorry mirroring tool to Python 3 and containers running on AWS EKS, including Helm deployment scripts.
• Build Linux platform for a conference demo, in addition to OTA upgrades using OSTree.
• Public test suite creation for Remote Execution API compatibility between different clients and servers, using GitLab CI.
• Support OpenStack ARM64 deployments using Kolla, contributing fixes upstream.
• Lead a team of six people in developing a Python application and libraries for flashing and configuring ANC audio devices.

Previously I worked and ended up leading the team working on Baserock. As part of this role I worked on:

• Maintained and improved core tools in Python
• Integration and maintenance of software on Linux systems, including OpenStack, Systemd, Kernel, etc.
• Create and maintain core infrastructure, using Ansible and OpenStack.
• Improve atomic system upgrades tooling using Btrfs.
• Ported Baserock to new architectures (POWER, ARMv6, ARMv7)
• Engaged with various open-source communities,

Education

MSc Computer Science Engineering (09/2007 - 09/2012)

Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain