Carlos Nunez

469-382-9361 1942 West Gray #1165, Houston TX, 77019 carlosonunez carlosinhtx

Experience


Red Hat - Principal Solutions Architect - Financial Services

01/2025 - Present

Principal Solutions Architect - Financial Services Houston, TX (remote)
  • Responsible for setting technical pre-sales strategy and product growth at a global payments network and a global cloud-native bank. and a global cloud-native consumer bank.
  • Delivered the technical win for net-new OpenShift AI consumption at a global payments network
  • Designed a framework for accelerating and streamlining AI proof-of-concepts for FSI customers

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.

Contino - Technical Principal

5/2017-6/2020

Technical Principal Dallas, TX (remote)
  • Specialized in reducing deployment times into production environments by up to 2000% at large and heavily-regulated enterprises within the FSI and Retail sectors.
  • Lead several engagements for quickly enabling and upskilling large development teams on foundational DevOps and Reliability Engineering topics.
  • Expanded the business into US Central and West regions through proposals, SoW generation, discovery workshops and pre-sales efforts (blogs and conference talks).
  • Grew senior consultants into Techncial Principals through coaching and mentorship.

Older Experience


  • 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


  • Cloud: AWS, Azure, vSphere, Serverless
  • Containers: Kubernetes, 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


Interests


Road cycling, Fitness and weight lifting, Beer and breweries, Coffee (v60 switch with Chemex filters), Minimalist sneakers and sandals