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01 · platform engineer

I build the platforms that other teams deploy on.

Senior Cloud Engineer with seven years of experience, deep in AWS — based in Buenos Aires, working across hemispheres.

Venezuelan in Argentina, endlessly curious — I built this site and the infra behind it from scratch because I believe the best way to learn is to ship.

Rubén Ricaurte
Current focus
Platform Engineering
Primary cloud
AWS
IaC
Terraform
Orchestration
Kubernetes
02 · what I'm working on now
featured project · live

aws-cloudfront-site — the infra behind this site

AWS Organizations hub-and-spoke with Identity Center, OIDC federation with GitHub Actions, S3 + CloudFront + ACM + Route 53, an independent preview environment for every pull request, and a tiered cache strategy (HTML 5 min, assets 1 year immutable). The site you're looking at is the artifact; the infra is the demo.

AWS Organizations CloudFront ACM Route 53 OIDC GitHub Actions S3 Terraform
aws-cloudfront-site architecture GitHub Actions federates via OIDC into the management AWS account, chains roles into the production account hosting S3 behind CloudFront with ACM and Route 53, serving ricaurtef.com over TLS in us-east-1. GitHub OIDC MGMT Account AssumeRole (chain) PROD Account S3 CloudFront ACM + R53 ricaurtef.com (tls · us-east-1)
lab

aws-account-foundation repo

Organizations, IAM Identity Center, hub-and-spoke IAM. The "day one" of a new AWS account.
03 · capabilities

Cloud foundations

Multi-account AWS Organizations · Identity Center Hub-and-spoke IAM OIDC federation Global edge delivery Linux · On-prem Docker

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Reusable module libraries Terragrunt Ansible Packer AWS CDK

CI/CD & release engineering

Pipeline design & migration GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD Bitbucket Pipelines

Observability

Cross-account CloudWatch Hybrid CloudWatch + Datadog OpenTelemetry · learning

Platform practices · growing

Kubernetes · CKA roadmap Internal developer platforms Golden paths

Languages & scripting

Python Bash HCL
04 · certifications & roadmap
AWS Certified Developer — Associate
AWS Developer — Associate
AWS · earned Sep 2025
 HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (004)
Terraform Associate (004)
HashiCorp · earned Apr 2026
AWS Certified Cloud Operations Engineer — Associate
AWS CloudOps — Associate
in progress
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer — Professional
AWS DevOps — Professional
planned · Q3 2026
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CKA — Kubernetes Administrator
planned · Q3 2026
Q3 '25
AWS Developer Assoc.
Q2 '26
Terraform Assoc.
Q2 '26
AWS CloudOps
Q3 '26
AWS DevOps Pro
Q3 '26
CKA
Q4 '26
CKAD / OTel / ArgoCD · tentative
05 · get in touch

What are you building?

Hiring for a platform role, shipping something new on AWS, or just want to compare notes on CI/CD? The inbox is open — no ping-pong required.

email ricaurtef@gmail.com linkedin rubén-ricaurte-francia github ricaurtef