Career Profile

Hi there!

I’m Joan, your IT gentle giant. I am a huge people-person and have a passion for everything IT. Working at Lidl Digital, I interact and work with some of the smartest, IT keen people you’ll ever meet. Together we solve Lidl biggest IT challenges and join forces to make sure Lidl completes its digital transformation in the most efficient, effective, and securest way possible so that our clients can get the ultimate customer experience.

Outside the office I am committed to my continuous education and working on my EMBA at La Salle. I love spending my time with friends and family. Cards Against Humanity is the best game ever. I would be lost without Amazon.

Technologies I work with: Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, GCP, Go.

Looking forward to connecting and chatting with you!

Experiences

DevOps - PO

2018 - Present
Lidl Digital/Schwarz IT BCN

Product Owner for the cloud solution of Lidl digital to the digital transformation and cloud migration.

  • Identify stakeholders needs and build our solution accordingly.
  • CI/CD and automation of processes.
  • Contributed to devops/SRE in our application projects.
  • Improve the observability of any cloud application.
  • Migration of docker based applications to a GCP and Azure hybrid cloud.
  • Coordinated with multiple business units in order to achieve the integration of business and people.

CTO

2018
Mediastream

Lead the transformation to the new technologies, embrace the new tools and speed up the business processes.

  • ISO 27001 implementation.
  • Migrate from servers on premises to a new docker infrastructure.
  • Adopt new cloud tools to offer business metrics so we can take better and faster decisons.
  • Implemented ITIL methodologies, ticketing system, and processes in the IT department.
  • Contributed to devops in our application projects.

DevOps / IT Manager

2015 - 2018
AXA Group Solutions

Managed team in charge of the IT help desk and devops

  • Standardized the docker platform within AXA (registry, development, integration and production environments)
  • Oversaw AXA’s internal IT infrastructure (windows, ubuntu, centos, squid, SQL server, AD).
  • Implemented ITIL methodologies, ticketing system, and processes in the IT department.
  • Responsible for all IT purchases.
  • Coordinated with multiple business units in order to achieve the integration of business and people.
  • Contributed to devops web and mobile application projects.

Operations Engineer

Mar 2015 - Nov 2015
ADP

Project Management, set up and tunning of the following systems:

  • OS: Windows Server 2008, 2012; Linux Suse Enterprise.
  • Business Intelligence: SAP BI 4.1 over Linux.
  • High availability: Windows Server (DFS, F5).
  • Queuing systems: RabbitMQ.
  • Monitoring : Nagios, Splunk.
  • Web hosting: IIS 7 and 8, Apache Tomcat.
  • Intranet: Confluence, Jira, SubVersion.
  • Content Management Systems: SiteCore (.NET, MS SQL, IIS), Joomla (PHP, MySQL, Apache).
  • Databases: MS SQL 2008, Oracle 11g.

Sysadmin

2014 - 2015
Opscaling

  • Linux webserver administration (Linux + Apache/Nginx + Ruby/PHP).
  • Database administration (MySQL / PostgreSQL).
  • Monitorization, maintenenace and continuous improvement of linux servers (CentOS, RedHat, AWS Linux, Debian…).
  • Manage servers using Puppet (350+ servers).
  • Cloud migration.
  • Manage customer’s AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, CloudFront, ElastiCache, RDS, ELB, Auto Scaling, CloudFormation, Glacier, CloudWatch, Route 53, SES, SQS…).
  • Manage projects with Gitosis, Github, BitBucket and Subversion.
  • Implement scripts for backups and service improvements with Python.
  • Infrastructure and procedure documentation

Customers

  • Futbol Club Barcelona: fcbarcelona.com
  • XAL: laxarxa.cat | xiptv.cat
  • Grup Godó: lavanguardia.com | mundodeportivo.com
  • Adegency

Aplication Management Engineer

2012 - 2014
NTT Europe Ltd.

  • 3rd line support on Windows enviroments.
  • Support large infraestructures on High Avaiability platforms.
  • Mid-size project management

Owner

2011 - 2012
Cloudguard

Owner of my own company

Desktop solution based on cloud computing.

We deliver virtual desktops so user can work wherever they want without worrying about anything IT related.

Skills & Proficiency

Cloud solutions (AWS / GCP)

Kubernetes

Terraform

Hashicorp Vault

OS and monitornig

Python

Go

Project management

Innovative

Bussiness mindset