About Andrevops

2025-04-05 2 min read Andrevops
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I’m Andres, an engineer who started writing backend code in 2007 and somehow ended up rebuilding cloud infrastructure from the ground up.

Currently working as an AI Cloud Software Engineer at RealManage. Most of what I write about on this blog actually happened in previous roles — cutting cloud bills by 40%, designing fraud prevention systems, dockerizing everything in sight, and building CI/CD pipelines that actually worked in production.

The blog exists because I kept solving the same problems over and over, and writing them down was easier than explaining them again.

What I’ve built

Some of the things I’m most proud of:

  • Cut cloud costs by 40% through service optimization and smarter resource allocation
  • Reduced VPN billing by 90% by building an in-house VPN solution instead of paying for one
  • Dropped DB CPU by 50% through query optimization and targeted code refactoring
  • Shrunk container images by 70% using multi-stage Docker builds
  • Built fraud prevention from scratch: WAF, CSRF protection, reCaptcha Enterprise, and comprehensive logging
  • Moved teams onto IaC pipelines for reproducible, auditable infrastructure

AWS Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Certified Security – Specialty

Before the cloud

I co-founded a tech company in Venezuela in 2013. I learned that wearing every hat — sales, delivery, technical, customer support — is either excellent training or a terrible idea. Probably both.

Spent time in Peru, eventually ended up working remotely from the US. Started in banking doing network administration, moved through e-commerce and ERP software, picked up PHP along the way, and gradually traded it for containers, cloud, and infrastructure.

What I write about

The real stuff. Cost spikes, debugging sessions that go sideways, decisions that saved money or cost it, tools I built because nothing else did exactly what I needed.

If you find something useful here, glad it helped. If you have questions, reach out.