Jorge Vidal Flores

Character sheet

Quest log

Two decades of keeping things up, newest first.

1. 09/2026↓now

   Unlogic Games

   ● active

   Co-founder & DevSecOps

   Co-founder of an indie game studio. I automate things and keep our games healthy and secure.

   • Unreal Engine development, AI governance, infrastructure, pipelines, networking and security.
   • First game in the oven: SteamDreams: Lab & Workshop.

   DevSecOpsCI/CDGame devCo-founderAI

2. 07/2024↓08/2026

   VASS

   DevOps Lead & Infrastructure Architect

   Designing and running infrastructure for banking-grade products, in public cloud and in the datacenter.

   • Zenith: bank-as-a-service platform.
   • Bare-metal infrastructure platform for data scientists.
   • Kubernetes, Helm charts and Terraform on AWS and GCP; technical team coordination.

   KubernetesHelmTerraformAWSGCPBare-metal

3. 08/2018↓06/2024

   Intelygenz

   DevOps Lead & Infrastructure Architect

   Six years as the "superhero" a company full of developers calls so they can focus on shipping quality software.

   • Infrastructure architecture for public cloud and datacenters; Kubernetes and Helm everywhere.
   • CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins): builds, e2e/integration tests, quality gates, deploys.
   • Terraform and CloudFormation on AWS and GCP; leading international teams.
   • Turning business needs into technical requirements that developers can turn into elegant software.

   KubernetesHelmTerraformGitLab CIGitHub ActionsJenkinsAWSGCP

4. 09/2014↓06/2018

   Datatons

   Co-founder, CTO & Head of Systems

   Co-founded a big data company and built its whole platform: internal IT and customer infrastructure, DevOps style.

   • Led a technical team of 5; requirements with clients, technical and economic proposals.
   • Puppet and Ansible across AWS, Google Cloud and libvirt; published vim_tuning on Puppet Forge.
   • Docker and Kubernetes before it was cool, plus Varnish CDN, Bind, OpenVPN, GitLab, monitoring and backups.

   CTOPuppetAnsibleDockerKubernetesAWSGCP

5. 02/2012↓08/2014

   Schneider Electric

   Senior Systems Administrator

   Unix systems and telephony for big-name clients: RTVE, Vueling, Yoigo, Real Madrid, Gallina Blanca.

   • Responsible for Vueling Airlines Unix systems.
   • Yoigo's DNS servers, serving 1 billion queries per month.
   • Puppet orchestration, LDAP integration, automation; Avaya, Cisco Call Manager and Asterisk.

   UnixPuppetBindLDAPVoIP

6. 09/2005↓01/2012

   Matchmind → Telvent

   Systems Administrator → Senior

   Where the datacenter years happened: the only sysadmin for a cell of 6 racks, ~65 physical servers and 300+ VMs, 90% of it built by me from scratch.

   • 13 VMware environments; Nagios/Centreon monitoring; open source R&D for massive cost reduction.
   • Asterisk and Alcatel ACDs in 8 Spanish offices plus Brazil and Uruguay.
   • Led a team of level 1 technicians.

   DatacenterVMwareLinuxAsteriskNagios

7. 12/2009↓now

   Freelance & side ops

   ● active

   Senior Systems Administrator & Mentor

   Long-running freelance gigs and community work alongside the day job.

   • coches.com: whole platform on Puppet, Varnish HTTP acceleration and a custom CDN.
   • Open Source Weekends: lead of the "Goku" guild, 10 people running the platform behind the community projects.
   • Imaste-IPS, Open Retail, Dinaru: migrations, rack setups, Asterisk ACD hubs, monitoring.

   KubernetesDatacenterPuppetVarnishDebianDockerMentoring

8. 08/2003↓07/2005

   Tutorial level

   Hardware technician

   Screwdrivers, cable runs and end-user support (KIA Motors, Hardware & Programming, Ciberesquina), plus a degree in consumer electronics.

   Hardware

Inventory

Tools of the trade. Most of them battle-tested in production.

★ Achievements unlocked

• 2016 Varnish Administration
• 2013 LPIC-1
• 2013 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
• 2013 Cisco Voice Communications & QoS
• 2009 ITIL Foundation v3

Side quests

The stuff that keeps me happy when the pager is quiet.

$ apt moo