Carlos Nunez
Experience
Red Hat - Principal Solutions Architect - Financial Services
01/2025 - Present
Principal Solutions Architect - Financial Services
Houston, TX (remote)
- Delivered PoCs, workshops and custom demos for Internet-disconnected OpenShift Container Platform, OpenShift App Services, and OpenShift AI opportunities with financial services customers (average deal size: $1M)
- Built and delivered a custom multi-cloud and multi-partner demo highlighting stateful, multicloud active-passive failover with OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management.
- Contributed pull requests, documentation and field feedback for various components of OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management.
Wiz - Federal Presales Engineer
05/2024 - 12/2024
Federal Presales Engineer
Houston, TX (remote)
- Drove the technical win for >$2MM of Wiz ARR and provided technical contributions to the Wiz for Government FedRAMP environment.
- Designed bespoke demos and proof-of-values to accelerate deal close and time to value for the customer
- Accelerated complex demo creation with demo automation based on Terraform, Bash and Make
VMware - Federal Presales Engineer
02/2023 - 05/2024
Federal Presales Engineer
Houston, TX (remote)
- Provided consulting and drove the technical win for >$5MM of Tanzu ARR and Services contracts in the US Public Sector.
- Guided the creation of a Platform Engineering center of excellence for a major program within the US Department of Defense.
- Guided several engineering teams within the US Government on developing faster paths to production and more secure software supply chains.
VMware - Staff Solutions Architect
12/2020 - 02/2023
Staff Solutions Architect
Dallas, TX (remote)
- Designed and built a Cloud Foundry-like and Kubernetes-agnostic developer platform in Bash that enabled developers within the US Government to go from idea to production on their own Kubernetes clusters with a single manifest file in minutes.
- Paired with several application teams at a large national retailer to reduce deployment times by as much as 40% while migrating to OpenShift and improving codebase test coverage and release safety.
- Architected a comprehensive, 70+ point framework for assessing DevOps and SRE capabilties at enterprise customers that reduced Platform Services onboarding by several weeks.
10th Magnitude - Senior Cloud Architect
6/2020-11/2020
Senior Cloud Architect
Dallas, TX (remote)
- Reduced deployment time of the company’s leading Landing Zone service by 40% through automation and authoring additional tooling.
- Served as a principal consultant for a large retail provider through their migration onto Azure Kubernetes Service from OpenShift.
- Conducted design sessions and discovery workshops for onboarding applications being refactored to cloud-native designs.
Older Experience
- 2020: Contino, Dallas, TX - Executed and led small consulting teams in helping the world's most highly-regulated organizations embrace DevOps, improve cloud infrastructure, and upskill engineering capabilities and ship customer value faster and easier.
- 2017: ThoughtWorks, Dallas, TX - Cloud consulting for Fortune 100 companies. Built automation to provision infrastructure and app deployments and create ephemeral development environments.
- 2016: Namely, New York - SRE for Namely Payroll. Maintained 99.5% uptime. Built automation to create multi-region Active Directory forests for testing AD SAML auth with third-party benefits providers.
- 2015: Google, New York - SRE for Corp Eng Managed Systems. Built a Kerberized command execution sandbox for multi-thousand Windows server fleet across Google X and acquired entities to reduce team toil by 60%.
- 2014: Two Sigma, New York - Improved effiency of new hire onboarding and terminations by >30% by implementing a pluggable, Powershell-based employee management workflow engine. Designed and led a proof-of-concept of Citrix XenDesktop VDIs for trading.
- 2012: Jane Street, New York - Architected and built an in-house configuration management platform for kickstarting and provisioning Windows servers from power-on using PowerShell and F#. Provided advanced support for homegrown Excel Add-ons used for $USD billions of daily order flow.
- 2008: Macquarie Capital, New York - Optimized in-house scripts that improved provisioning and decommissioning speed of Dell and HP Windows servers worldwide by over 40%. Wrote scripts and other automation to improve file server migration reliability.
Skills
- AI/Agents: Claude Code, ChatGPT, vLLM
- Cloud: AWS, Azure, vSphere, Serverless
- Containers: Kubernetes (xKS, OpenShift), Docker/Podman, Developer platforms
- Software Engineering: Golang, Bash
- Agile and Leadership Skills: Value stream mapping, Providiing technical vision, Agile storyboarding and facilitation, Motivating teams, Written communication, Verbal communication, Strong analytical skills, Collaboration skills, Mentoring
- Presales and consulting: Maturity assessments, Value-based selling, Technical discovery, Modern application transformation, Proof of Concepts
Education
Stevens Institute of Technology
2005 - 2010
BEng, Computer Engineering
Publications
- 2022: Learning Docker (LinkedIn Learning)
- 2023: Docker Essential Training (LinkedIn Learning)
- 2023: Kubernetes Provisioning for Infrastructure As Code (LinkedIn Learning)
- 2024: DevOps Fundamentals: Your First Project (LinkedIn Learning)
- 2025: Kubernetes: Your First Project (LinkedIn Learning)
Interests
Road cycling, Fitness and weight lifting, Beer and breweries, Coffee (v60 switch with Chemex filters), Minimalist sneakers and sandals