Francisco Javier Tsao Santín

SRE at Telefónica

Pontedeume, Spain

Introduction

I am an engineer. My first contact with computers was when I was 11 years old, when I learned to program Basic for Spectrum 48k. Since then, computing science has always been a hobby in my life. At university I studied Civil Engineering, and in my first jobs I applied my programming and systems knowledge to Civil Engineering projects. I acquired much of that knowledge at GPUL, the Linux users group of the University of A Coruña. As of 2012 I started working on purely IT projects (but I apply on them the hard work, scientific thinking and self-learning that characterizes us as civil engineers). Like many IT people, over the years, my jobs have evolved from traditional sysadmin to DevOps/Platform Engineer, which is my current position.

Languages

Galician
Native/Bilingual
Spanish
Native/Bilingual
English
Intermediate

Interesting facts about me

Free Software activist

I meet the Free Software movement in 1998, the same year I joined to GPUL-CLUG (Coruña Linux Users Group). I actively participated in the activities of that group until 2012 when I moved to Madrid. Also, I have been collaborating with other FLOSS projects like The Free Translation Project, Fedora and pkgsrc.

Homelabber

I built my own homelab on a 12U-rack. I run there a pfsense appliance, an HP ProCurve switch, and some server nodes (HP Proliant, Supermicro) that are my 2nd level backup (built on FreeBSD) and my private cloud for develop and testing (built on SmartOS).

Technologies and tools

I master

  • Jenkins
  • Docker
  • Prometheus
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL
  • Elasticsearch
  • Linux
  • Ansible

I want to work with

  • Python
  • AWS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Google Cloud
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Azure
  • Prometheus

I prefer not to work with

  • Windows

My skills

Continuous learning
Proactivity
Analytical thinking

Career

SRE

dic 2022TODAY
(10 months)

SRE at Novum. Automation, IaC, gitops, cloud, observability.

Technologies and tools
  • Linux logo
    Linux
  • Jenkins_Icon
    Jenkins
  • Docker logo
    Docker
  • Kubernetes logo
    Kubernetes
  • Terraform_Icon
    Terraform
  • Puppet_Icon
    Puppet
  • Azure_icon
    Azure
  • grafana_avatar
    Grafana
  • Prometheus_icon
    Prometheus

Platform Engineer

feb 2019nov 2022
(3 yrs. and 10 months)

Member of the Platform Team. Systems architecture and reliability, automation, CI/CD, observability. Security champion. Improved infra/services automated testing. Architected logs centralization. Helped to integrate brands adquired by idealista in our platform. Driven good practices in devops methodologies and systems administration.

Technologies and tools
  • Python_Icon
    Python
  • PHP_Icon
    PHP
  • JAVA_Icon
    JAVA
  • PostgreSQL_Icon
    PostgreSQL
  • MySQL_Icon
    MySQL
  • Elasticsearch logo
    Elasticsearch
  • Linux logo
    Linux
  • Jenkins_Icon
    Jenkins
  • Docker logo
    Docker
  • Nginx_Icon
    Nginx
  • Apache_Icon
    Apache
  • Ansible_Icon
    Ansible
  • Kafka_Icon
    Kafka
  • Jira_icon
    Jira
  • Git_icon
    Git
  • redis_avatar
    Redis
  • grafana_avatar
    Grafana
  • GitHub_Icon
    Github
  • s
    Nexus
  • avatar
    Vim
  • BitBucket_icon
    Bitbucket
  • avatar
    Solr
  • Tomcat_icon
    Apache Tomcat
  • Prometheus_icon
    Prometheus
  • ava
    Nomad
  • ava
    Gitflow
  • avatar
    Debian
  • lua
    Lua
  • s
    ClickHouse
  • NewRelic_Icon
    New Relic

DevOps Engineer

mar 2016ene 2019
(2 yrs. and 11 months)

Systems/database/network/private cloud/distributed storage architecture, capacity and administration; hardware maintenance. DB performance tuning. Implementation of DevOps methodologies (we evolved from git flow to TBD) and tooling. Implementation of configuration management. Improved observability with the modernization of tools and implementing logs centralization. Improved security policies. Improved disaster recovery procedures. Built a private cloud with OpenNebula and Ceph. Integration at idealista, datacenter migration.

Technologies and tools
  • PHP_Icon
    PHP
  • AWS Logo
    AWS
  • PostgreSQL_Icon
    PostgreSQL
  • MySQL_Icon
    MySQL
  • MongoDB_Icon
    MongoDB
  • Elasticsearch logo
    Elasticsearch
  • Linux logo
    Linux
  • Jenkins_Icon
    Jenkins
  • Nginx_Icon
    Nginx
  • Apache_Icon
    Apache
  • Ansible_Icon
    Ansible
  • Jira_icon
    Jira
  • redis_avatar
    Redis
  • grafana_avatar
    Grafana
  • d
    ELK
  • avatar
    Vim
  • BitBucket_icon
    Bitbucket
  • Perl_icon
    Perl
  • Prometheus_icon
    Prometheus
  • s
    Varnish
  • s3_icon
    S3
  • s
    Pfsense
  • PostGIS
  • ava
    Gitflow
  • s
    Nagios
  • d
    KVM
  • Bacula
  • r
    Xen
  • NewRelic_Icon
    New Relic
Up and Running Supporting Services

Technical consultant

oct 2012feb 2016
(3 yrs. and 5 months)

Mission critical systems administration. Member of an Hewlett-Packard Enterprise team that administrated the core systems at the insurance company MAPFRE. Managed SUSE, RHEL, HP-UX, AIX operating systems and HP Service Guard clusters. Level 2 support and on call rotations. Troubleshooting, performance tuning, design and deployment of infrastructure enhancements. MAPFRE datacenter migration. ITIL and security policies implementation.

Technologies and tools
  • Linux logo
    Linux
  • Git_icon
    Git
  • avatar
    Vim
  • Bash_icon
    Bash
  • vm
    VMWare
  • svn
    SVN
  • avatar
    RedHat
  • ava
    SUSE
  • ava
    AIX

Developer and structural analyst

oct 2010sept 2012
(2 yrs.)

vPULO Project: Development of GUI for launched bridges design and optimization program. MAAXIMUS Project: Structural optimization engines development for BOSS quattro. VoidSlab project: Simulia Abaqus scripts and GUI plugins development and structural analysis to develop a tool for designing voided slab deck bridges.

Technologies and tools
  • Python_Icon
    Python
  • C_Icon
    C
  • C++_Icon
    C++
  • Linux logo
    Linux
  • Git_icon
    Git
  • Drupal_icon
    Drupal
  • ava
    Emacs
  • avatar
    Qt
Freelance

Developer

ago 2010sept 2010
(2 months)

Assistant developer (awk/Fortran) in GIS environments in A Cidade dos Barrios (urban planning and social participation project in A Coruña).

Technologies and tools
  • ava
    Fortran
  • ava
    Emacs
  • s
    AWK

SysAdmin/developer

oct 2008mar 2010
(1 year and 6 months)

Linux systems administration: design, implementation and administration of laboratory infraestructure, network, and services organization. Assistant developer in GIS and Civil Engineering projects.

Technologies and tools
  • JAVA_Icon
    JAVA
  • PostgreSQL_Icon
    PostgreSQL
  • MySQL_Icon
    MySQL
  • Linux logo
    Linux
  • Apache_Icon
    Apache
  • Git_icon
    Git
  • ava
    Fortran
  • CMS
  • svn
    SVN
  • PostGIS
  • avatar
    Debian
  • s
    Geoserver
  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • ava
    Emacs
  • ava
    openlayers
  • Samba
  • s
    AWK
  • r
    Xen
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GIS technician

ago 2008sept 2008
(2 months)

GIS technician at EIEL (Infrastructures and equipments inquiry of A Coruña Provincial Government).

Technologies and tools
  • PostgreSQL_Icon
    PostgreSQL
  • s
    QGIS
  • PostGIS

Developer/SysAdmin

nov 2005may 2006
(7 months)

Developer and systems administrator at SAPO (Oceanographic Forecast Autonomous System) at Ferrol Outward Port.

Technologies and tools
  • C_Icon
    C
  • Linux logo
    Linux
  • Apache_Icon
    Apache
  • Bash_icon
    Bash
  • ava
    Fortran
  • avatar
    Debian
  • ava
    Emacs

Education

Courses

LFC192: Generating a Software Bill of Materials

jul 2022ago 2022
(2 months)

Earners of LFC192: Generating a Software Bill of Materials badge can identify the minimum data elements for a SBOM and understand the reasoning behind why those elements are included in an SBOM. They have foundational knowledge about the options and the tools available for generating SBOMs. By knowing how to generate an SBOM, they are better equipped to help with efficient analysis for security, licensing, and other use cases.

Jenkins Pipeline - Fundamentals

feb 2021

Credential ID: jje34tm8uiuc

Technologies and tools
  • Jenkins_Icon
    Jenkins

Intro to DFIR: The Divide and Conquer Process

nov 2020

Credential ID: estzdb9cel

PGConf.EU

Postgresql Performance Workshop

oct 2019
Technologies and tools
  • PostgreSQL_Icon
    PostgreSQL

Machine Learning

dic 2018feb 2019
(3 months)

Machine Learning by Stanford University at Coursera. Credential ID: 8AWUCUB428HE

Technologies and tools
  • mat
    Matlab

LFS258 Kubernetes Fundamentals

ago 2017sept 2017
(2 months)
Technologies and tools
  • Docker logo
    Docker
  • Kubernetes logo
    Kubernetes

LFS253 Containers Fundamentals

abr 2017
Technologies and tools
  • Docker logo
    Docker

M102 MongoDB for DBAs

ene 2016feb 2016
(2 months)
Technologies and tools
  • MongoDB_Icon
    MongoDB
Arrow ECS

IBM Course AN11 Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning

mar 2014
Technologies and tools
  • ava
    AIX
Arrow ECS

IBM Course AN142: AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

ago 2013
Technologies and tools
  • ava
    AIX
Hewlett-Packard

HP H6487S HP Serviceguard I

feb 2013
Stanford Know it! (now Coursera)

Introduction to Artificial Ingelligence (advanced track)

sept 2011dic 2011
(4 months)
Spain National Geographical Institute

Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)

oct 2009dic 2009
(3 months)
Technologies and tools
  • s
    QGIS
  • s
    Geoserver
  • ava
    openlayers

Certificates

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Issued by: The Linux Foundation
jul 2019dic 2019
(6 months)

Certified Kubernetes Administrator. Certificate ID Number: CKA-1900-004716-0100

Technologies and tools
  • Docker logo
    Docker
  • Kubernetes logo
    Kubernetes
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Issued by: The Linux Foundation
ago 2015nov 2015
(4 months)

Linux Foundation Certified Engineer. License number LFCE-1500-0146-0200

Technologies and tools
  • Linux logo
    Linux
  • Apache_Icon
    Apache
  • DNS

Highlights

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Description

Workshop on how to recompile the linux kernel to adapt it to our needs (in Spanish)

Technologies and tools
  • Linux logo
    Linux

Bookmarks

Website

GPUL

The Coruña Linux Users Group

Podcast about tech I've been collaborating with (in Spanish).

This excerpt from the movie "Margin Call" explains my main goal at work quite well.

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