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Alex Garcia

Alex Garcia, AWS DevOps Engineer and Cloud Architect

AWS DevOps Engineer and Cloud Architect focused on DevOps and generative AI on AWS.

I'm an AWS DevOps engineer with more than 17 years in IT. I build AWS infrastructure, delivery pipelines and generative AI platforms with Terraform, AWS CDK, CI/CD, containers and Amazon Bedrock, and I work with AI coding assistants and MCP.

Portfolio Website

17+
years in IT		 7
certifications		 16
public repositories		 2
university courses taught

Projects

Repository Outcome
aws-devops-portfolio Index of the projects in this portfolio, with a check that keeps them consistent
terraform-aws-rescue-lab Untrusted Terraform turned into tested modules with remote state and a plan gate
github-actions-aws-oidc-lab Long-lived CI keys replaced by OIDC, and deploys that fail when ECS rolls back
aws-iam-security-review-sample Security review report with ranked findings and a control-to-evidence map for SOC 2
terraform-aws-eks-gitops-lab EKS through Terraform modules, a Helm chart and Argo CD folders per environment
aws-ecs-fargate-deploy-lab API containerized and deployed to Fargate with a circuit breaker and alarm-based rollback
terraform-aws-landing-zone-lab Multi-account foundation with AWS Organizations and guardrails tested against real requests
aws-well-architected-assessment-sample Assessment across the pillars and the DevOps lens, with a ranked backlog and roadmap
aws-cost-optimization-audit-sample Savings split into quick wins and planned work, each recalculated from billing data
aws-migration-runbook-sample Wave plan, AWS DMS tasks and a timed cutover runbook with a way back
aws-devops-workshop-labs Numbered labs on AWS, Terraform, CDK and CI/CD, each tested against its solution
terraform-aws-bedrock-rag-lab Private RAG API on Amazon Bedrock that cites its sources or refuses, with evaluation gates
terraform-aws-agentcore-agent-lab AI agent on Bedrock AgentCore whose every tool call is authorized per staff member
bedrock-genaiops-release-gate-lab Release gate that blocks prompt, model and guardrail changes failing quality, safety or cost
aws-genai-architecture-review-sample GenAI review against the Generative AI Lens, with a fix per finding and a cost model
cdk-python-nag-pipeline-lab CDK Pipelines app in Python that stops on any unacknowledged cdk-nag finding

Tech stack

Tech stack

AI stack: Amazon Bedrock, Claude, OpenAI, Amazon Q Developer, Kiro, Model Context Protocol

AWS, Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, Helm, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, Docker, Python, Bash, Checkov, Trivy, Amazon Bedrock, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, MCP.

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner AWS Certified AI Practitioner AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate AWS Certified Developer – Associate AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate AWS Academy Certified Educator HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate

Teaching

ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara

Adjunct professor of Cloud Architecture and Scalable Systems Design at ITESO, the Jesuit University of Guadalajara.

Activity

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  1. aws-devops-portfolio aws-devops-portfolio Public

    Demonstrates an AWS and DevOps portfolio through one card per service, each linked to its repository; verified offline by a catalog check across every repository.

    Python

  2. terraform-aws-rescue-lab terraform-aws-rescue-lab Public

    Demonstrates a Terraform rescue through a ranked diagnosis, fix pull requests and a zero-destroy state migration; verified offline with Checkov, tflint and terraform test.

    HCL

  3. github-actions-aws-oidc-lab github-actions-aws-oidc-lab Public

    Demonstrates keyless CI/CD to Amazon ECS through a GitHub Actions OIDC pipeline with security gates; verified offline with policy tests and mocked Terraform.

    Python

  4. terraform-aws-eks-gitops-lab terraform-aws-eks-gitops-lab Public

    Demonstrates Amazon EKS delivery through Terraform modules, a Helm chart and Argo CD folders per environment; verified offline with mocked Terraform and Helm render tests.

    HCL

  5. bedrock-genaiops-release-gate-lab bedrock-genaiops-release-gate-lab Public

    Demonstrates a GenAI release gate on Amazon Bedrock through quality, red-team and cost checks in GitHub Actions; verified offline against recorded evaluation runs and mocked Terraform.

    Python

  6. terraform-aws-bedrock-rag-lab terraform-aws-bedrock-rag-lab Public

    Demonstrates a private RAG API on Amazon Bedrock through Knowledge Bases, S3 Vectors and a guardrail in Terraform; verified offline with retrieval and answer evaluations and mocked Terraform tests.

    Python