Alberto Cortes embarked on his educational journey with a BSc in Electronics Engineering from the National Engineering University in Lima, Peru. He further honed his leadership and business acumen by earning an MBA from the University of the People in Pasadena, California.
Currently, Alberto serves as a Senior Cloud Engineer at CIBC Bank in Toronto, Canada, a leading financial institution. His areas of professional interest encompass cloud technologies and infrastructure, system observability and telemetry, and promoting a DevOps culture. His expertise in these domains greatly contributes to his current role and aligns well with the focus of the event.
Alberto's impressive achievements in his field include leading the implementation of deployment strategies DevOps tools and Ansible Automation Platform, which resulted in a groundbreaking 90% reduction in resource usage for deployments on-premises and the cloud.
In addition to this, Alberto has made substantial contributions to the field of system monitoring by engineering advanced systems using cutting-edge tools such as Dynatrace APM, Prometheus, Alertmanager, and Grafana. This innovation has been pivotal in revolutionizing methods for tracking and optimizing system performance in real-time.