Based in Cali, Colombia 🇨🇴 • Building secure, scalable, and enterprise-grade cloud solutions across the Americas

I'm a Senior IT Architect, Cloud Solutions Architect, and DevSecOps Engineer with a strong background in designing, modernizing, and securing enterprise technology platforms.

My work focuses on helping organizations improve their software production lines, strengthen their cloud architecture, accelerate delivery with DevSecOps practices, and evolve toward resilient, scalable, and secure systems.

I bring experience across industries such as banking, insurance, energy, healthcare, eCommerce, IoT, and agribusiness, participating in strategic initiatives that involve:

• cloud migration and modernization
• enterprise architecture design
• DevSecOps hardening strategies
• CI/CD enablement
• large-scale integrations
• zero-downtime transition planning
• legacy transformation and hybrid environments

In parallel with industry work, I also serve as a University Professor, where I enjoy sharing knowledge on software architecture, DevOps, systems thinking, and engineering ethics.

• Architect cloud-native and hybrid enterprise solutions
• Design and implement DevOps / DevSecOps transformation strategies
• Build secure and scalable CI/CD pipelines
• Lead cloud migration journeys on AWS and Azure
• Define architecture for mission-critical systems with high availability requirements
• Support modernization of legacy platforms, integrations, and enterprise application ecosystems
• Mentor engineers, teams, and students in architecture and technology strategy

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud migration strategy
• Hybrid environments
• Enterprise architecture
• Solution architecture
• High-level and low-level design
• Resilient and scalable systems

• CI/CD pipelines
• DevSecOps strategy
• Jenkins
• Git / GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Automation and orchestration
• Secure delivery practices
• Compliance-oriented engineering

• Java
• Python
• Node.js
• Ruby
• C++
• REST APIs
• SOAP services
• Microservices
• Distributed systems
• Integration architecture
• API strategy
• Legacy modernization

• Linux
• Bash
• Grafana
• JBoss / WildFly
• Tomcat
• Apache
• SQL Server
• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB

I’ve contributed to technology initiatives in sectors such as:

• Banking & Insurance
• Energy
• Healthcare
• eCommerce
• IoT / Surveillance
• Agribusiness / LATAM Enterprise Operations

Some of the initiatives reflected in my professional journey include:

• DevOps and quality implementation for banking and insurance

  • Process design, tool selection, workflow automation, and SLA definition using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Bitbucket Pipelines, and Jira.

• DevSecOps hardening strategy and implementation

  • Security strengthening initiatives integrated into delivery and operations practices.

• Journey to Cloud for enterprise environments

  • Architecture strategy for migration of IBM, SAP, DB2/AS400, and x86 ecosystem workloads.

• AWS migration design for YARA LATAM

  • Support for defining migration and deployment architecture for SAP environments across 7 countries.

• Zero-downtime cloud migration strategy for surveillance platforms

  • Strategy and architecture for migration of IoT APIs and monitoring systems with live migration requirements.

• Large-scale core transformation programs

  • Leadership in architecture strategy, cutover planning, stabilization, and integration design involving hundreds to thousands of integrations.

I care deeply about the intersection of technology, engineering responsibility, and long-term system thinking.

I regularly explore and share ideas around:

• DevOps and DevSecOps
• Cloud architecture and modernization
• Software production lines
• Software architecture
• Engineering ethics
• Technical leadership

• Hacia la automatización de líneas de producción de software con herramientas open-source
• Hacia un Método para Evaluar la Madurez de la Implementación de Principios y Patrones SOA: MeMSOA - Aplicado a un Contexto Empresarial

• AWS & Azure Certified ×3
• Master in Software Engineering
• University Professor
• Distinguished Graduate Recognition
  Best weighted GPA in the Master’s program at Universidad de San Buenaventura Cali

• Strengthening cloud security and DevSecOps maturity
• Advancing in French 🇫🇷
• Continuously refining my English communication 🇺🇸
• Sharing knowledge through teaching, writing, and mentoring

• Spanish: Native / Bilingual
• English: Full Professional Proficiency
• French: Elementary Proficiency

• 📫 Email: [email protected]
• 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/habolanos
• 👨‍💻 Projects: LinkedIn Projects

When I’m not working on architecture, automation, or cloud strategy, I enjoy spending time with my family, playing with my son, going on adventures, listening to stories, and sharing good jokes.