Infrastructure Engineer obsessed with building robust, scalable infrastructure and empowering developers through self-service platforms. Based in New York with 9+ years of experience transforming how teams deploy, monitor, and operate at scale.
Currently co-founding Glamer — a peer-to-peer marketplace for hairstylists and barbers.
I design and operate large-scale infrastructure that just works. My sweet spot is at the intersection of platform engineering and site reliability — building self-service systems that reduce friction and let developers focus on shipping features instead of provisioning infrastructure.
Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, VPC) · VMware vSphere · Kubernetes · Cluster API
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform · Ansible · FluxCD · Carvel (kapp, ytt, kbld) · GitOps
Observability: Prometheus · Grafana · Thanos · Loki · Tempo · Alertmanager
CI/CD: GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · GitOps
Languages: Go · Python · Bash
Specialties: Platform Engineering · SRE · Incident Management · Capacity Planning · Toil Reduction
Beyond infrastructure, I'm passionate about:
- Home Automation & IoT: Tinkering with ESP32 microcontrollers and building smart home solutions
- Distributed Systems & Advanced Storage: Deep dives into Ceph, placement groups, and erasure coding strategies
- Furniture Restoration: Restoring mid-century modern pieces (recovering my Herman Miller Aeron, one adjustment at a time)
- Photography: Capturing stories, especially street photography capturing fleeting moments
- Battery Technology: Exploring lithium-ion pack rebuilding and energy storage optimization
Glamer — Building the Airbnb for hairstylists. A two-sided marketplace with Go backend, Next.js frontend. Currently in beta, actively testing with focus groups and iterating on core features.
- Portfolio: ricardoherrera.co
- Email: ricardo@ricardoherrera.co
- Location: New York
Always open to conversations about infrastructure challenges, distributed systems, or building products that scale. If you're working on cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes optimization, or need to reduce infrastructure toil, I'd love to chat.
"Infrastructure is good when nobody notices it. That's what I build."