Ricardo Rios
Gainesville, FL • [email protected] • (407) 852-8596 • linkedin.com/in/rickyriosp • github.com/rickyriosp
Experience
- Maintained enterprise Java and SpringBoot applications hosted on AWS by addressing incidents tracked in ServiceNow, applying troubleshooting techniques to deliver solutions before SLA deadlines; resolved recurring issues faster using tools such as Splunk.
- Implemented bug fixes and feature enhancements within agile sprint cycles, improving application stability and directly supporting business-critical operations.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams including DevOps, QA, and Product Management to ensure seamless integration and deployment of updates, enhancing overall product quality and user satisfaction.
- Enhanced observability by refactoring and expanding logging coverage across services by ~30%, enabling faster root-cause analysis and reducing time-to-resolution for recurring incidents.
- Led Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) initiative by implementing AWS CDK (TypeScript) to provision and manage core resources (EC2, S3, Auto Scaling Groups, Application Load Balancers), improving deployment speed, scalability, and consistency.
- Developed deployment pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, automating build, test, and deployment of both infrastructure and applications, reducing release cycles and manual errors.
- Drove AWS cost optimization eff orts by auditing resource usage using AWS Cost Explorer and Compute Optimizer, enforcing tagging strategy, and right-sizing underutilized EC2 instances, cutting infrastructure spend by ~20%.
- Configured services with AWS CDK to enable flexible scaling of cloud resources while applying automation techniques to align computing capacity with demand, improving EC2 cost efficiency.
Technical Skills & Projects
Programming: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, SQL, Oracle SQL, Angular, TypeScript.
Cloud: AWS, AWS CDK, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Git, GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, CI/CD.
Tools: Splunk, Confluence, Jira, ServiceNow.
- Built and deployed a serverless, AI-powered web application during a hackathon using a fully automated Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach with Terraform.
- Built and deployed a serverless web app using Terraform to provision AWS services end-to-end (CloudFront, S3, API Gateway, Lambda, Bedrock).
- Implemented secure CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and OIDC, automating Terraform deployments, S3 uploads, and CloudFront cache invalidation.
- Packaged and deployed backend Lambda functions with dependencies via Lambda Layers, securing API Gateway with API keys.
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional | HashiCorp Terraform Associate | CompTIA Security+