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Hello, it's me... Andrés

Platform Engineer
Software Engineer
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Andrés Bretón

Sr. Principal Platform Software Engineer in Biotech industry

Highly motivated and passionate software engineer with 9+ years of industry experience building web apps, workflows, and deploying cloud infrastructure resources using a multitude of languages and technologies.

Passionate in delivering an elevated developer experience by leveraging tooling, enforcing standards, and increasing automation via Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, and the creation of developer tooling.

Continuously driven to learn new technologies and implementing innovative solutions with the objective of automating processes that deliver increasingly productive solutions to complex problems,translating requirements into impactful deliverables.

All about open-source software and fascinated by working with multitudes of technologies and languages to make a positive impact in this world.

Learn a little bit more about me and checkout out what I am up to.

Leadership

Team Work

Problem Solving

Creativity

Adaptability

Communication

Skills

IaC

Leverage Pulumi Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision Cloud resources, mostly AWS.

As a Platform Engineer, I build infrastructure resources that expand the developer experience by ensuring standards are followed, guardrails are set, and automation does the work.

Nx

Leverage Nx monorepo tooling to elevate the developer experience.

As a Platform Engineering, my goals is to empower developers to self-service by self-provisioning their infrastructure needs.

AWS

AWS

Provision AWS services for personal and professional use cases; including, but not limited to IAM, CodeArtifact, ECR, S3, etc.

Docker

Docker

Containerized applications for production deployments as well as building custom Docker images for base application builds and CI/CD workloads

TypeScript

TypeScript is the main language I use in my career, but not the only one I have used.

NodeJs

NodeJs

I love creating software that elevate the developer experience; CLIs, utilities, and more.

Linux

Linux

The terminal is where I like to live. POSIX anyone?

Shell

Shell

I love creating scripts to automate all kids of things and customizing BASH & ZSH shell configurations.

Git

Git

Advanced usage of git, including trunk-based and git-flow workflows both local and in CI/CD environments, as well as implementing GitOps operational strategy

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

Led web application developments integrated with Aurora RDBMS using Sequelize, a modern TypeScript and Node.js ORM.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes

Novice Kubernetes experience working on learning and expanding my knowledge in managing and deploying K8 clusters.

Angular

Angular

Led the development of several Angular web applications deployed to production.

Python

Python

Previously dabbled in small Python scripts.

Projects

px

Creator February 2024 - Present

Pulumi IaC leveraging Nx workspace tooling.

iac pulumi nx

Setup

Setup

Creator March 2018 - Present

Automate setting up a Mac.

dotfiles mac macos utility

Gists

Gists

Creator Ongoing

Personal Gists.

gist resource

Featured

Don't Have a Boring Terminal, Personalize It!

This is your playground, make your bash session personal! Customize your terminal and command the Command Line user Interface (CLI)! Make it pretty. Make it fun. Make it yours… Maximize its Functionality .bash_profile If you’re using a Mac, you’d modify your .bash_profile. .bashrc If you’re running on Linux, modify your .bashrc. Example There are endless ways of customizing your terminal, from colors to aliases, to my favorite having a custom prompt layout with environmental variables. You can find some examples here, here, and here.

Friday, August 1, 2014 | 1 minute Read

Minimize The Times Your Fingers Leave The Keyboard

Ever since 2012 when I started programming and wanting to do everything through the command line interface (CLI) rather than the GUIs, I started developing a desire to never want to move my fingers off the keyboard. Every time I took them off the keys to grab the mouse, it felt really inefficient! I constantly found myself wondering how I could do certain things through the terminal, and that’s where it all began. I encourage you to do the same!

Friday, August 11, 2017 | 2 minutes Read

Installing CentOS on the Raspberry Pi 2

Continuing with the Raspberry Pi Server and Mini Cluster project, the first step to installing the current CentOS Linux AltArch Arm32 version on the Raspberry Pi 2 was to download the latest release. I’ll come back to this operating system (OS) image later. 1. Backing Things Up - Always, Always, Always My Raspberry Pis came bundled with a nice 8 GB micro SD card preloaded with NOOBS. In case I want to revert to this image later on, I created a cloned image of the SD card. Though installing NOOBS is pretty straight forward, I still backed this up just, cause I can.

raspberry pi

Saturday, July 2, 2016 | 3 minutes Read

Recent

Homebrew - Package Manager for Mac

Homebrew is a package manager for your Mac, and one of my favorite tools! It’s such an essential tool. Homebrew complements your Mac by allowing you to install a vast number of packages (programs), commanding more power to your fingertips! You will never live without it again. Installing Homebrew It’s as simple as entering the text below in your Terminal. /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" Yes. You are done. That is all. You are now ready to start sipping down all those taps!

Friday, August 11, 2017 | 3 minutes Read

Minimize The Times Your Fingers Leave The Keyboard

Ever since 2012 when I started programming and wanting to do everything through the command line interface (CLI) rather than the GUIs, I started developing a desire to never want to move my fingers off the keyboard. Every time I took them off the keys to grab the mouse, it felt really inefficient! I constantly found myself wondering how I could do certain things through the terminal, and that’s where it all began. I encourage you to do the same!

Friday, August 11, 2017 | 2 minutes Read

Shiny Framework by RStudio

Someone recently mentioned that they were building web apps at their job, and of course, I couldn’t resist. My curious nature and excitement for learning about new programming languages and frameworks burst, and I asked what they were using! Well, they told me they were using Shiny. I had never heard of it. And so ensued my journey to find out what this was. Shiny Well, looking it up, I realized that Shiny was a framework created by the wonderful folks at RStudio that helps you create web apps using the Bootstrap framework. I was excited!

Friday, July 28, 2017 | 3 minutes Read