Curriculum vitae

Infrastructure & systems engineer.

Linux, networking and Go, built on eight years in SRE: the last three leading automation for critical banking systems at Citibanamex. Current focus: Kubernetes networking, Cilium and eBPF.

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$ kubectl describe engineer cristian
Name:
Cristian Gómez Aranda
Kind:
InfrastructureEngineer
Background:
~8y SRE on Linux (2018–2026)
Leadership:
8 direct reports, ~23 at peak
Automation:
~30k production runs/yr
Focus:
kubernetes-networking, cilium, ebpf, go
Status:
Sabbatical · open to remote roles · Mexico (UTC−6)

Experience

  1. Jun 2023 — Jun 2026

    Assistant Vice President | SRE Automation

    Citibanamex · Mexico City · Hybrid
    • Led SRE automation for critical banking systems: 8 direct reports, ~23 during an acceleration project.
    • Self-service Ansible and Bash playbooks, ~30,000 production runs a year, removed the wait for specialist teams: ~15 min to remediate when run at incident creation, against a ~60 min average.
    ansiblebashservicenowleadership
  2. Aug 2018 — Jun 2023

    SRE | Monitoring & Automation

    Tata Consultancy Services · Mexico
    • Monitoring and automation for production systems with Splunk, AppDynamics, Ansible and Bash scripting on Linux.
    splunkappdynamicsansiblebashlinux

Skills

production current focus

Production

Linuxproduction
Ansibleproduction
Bash · Python scriptingproduction
Splunk · AppDynamicsproduction
Team leadershipproduction

Current focus

Kubernetes networkingcurrent focus
Cilium · eBPFcurrent focus
Gocurrent focus
Master’s degreeData Science for Business · Utel Universidad · 2022
Engineering degreeInformation and Communication Technologies · UTVAM · 2017
LanguagesSpanish (native) · English (B2)