Alejandro Plaza
Cloud Architect and Lifelong Learner

About me

Based in Santiago, Chile, working in cloud infrastructure since 2018.

8+ years of hands-on infrastructure experience

From landing zones
to full cloud migrations

I work on landing zone design, migrations from on-prem to public cloud, and application modernization, with a focus on resilient, well-architected infrastructure.

• Migration planning and cost assessment.
• Environment and application assessment.
• Cloud environment selection (single or multi-cloud).
• Deployment model design (IaaS, PaaS & SaaS).
• Cloud architecture design.
• Data and application migration execution.

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01.

Expertise

Areas I work in day to day: cloud infrastructure, application modernization, data management, and security.

Cloud design

• Robust
• Highly Available
• Resilient

I design cloud infrastructure built to stay available through both scheduled maintenance and unplanned outages.

CloudDesign

Migrations

• Analyze
• Plan
• Migrate

I plan and execute cloud migrations end to end, from assessment through cutover.

VM and DataMigrations

Hybrid & Multi-Cloud

• Continuity
• Secure
• Saving Costs

I work with hybrid and multi-cloud architectures that split workloads across more than one public cloud provider.

Hybrid &Multi-Cloud

02.

My Skills

These are my main skills for cloud migrations and hybrid, cloud, and multi-cloud architecture design.

Language Skills

• Spanish · Native
• English · Professional working proficiency

Architect Skills

• VMware
• AWS
• GCP
• Azure
• Migrations
• Terraform

Certifications

Professional Cloud Architect Google Cloud · 2025

Professional Cloud Network Engineer Google Cloud · 2025

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional AWS · 2023

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate AWS · 2020

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner AWS · 2021

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals Microsoft · 2022

VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization Design Broadcom · 2020

VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization Deployment Broadcom · 2020

Master Specialist – VMware Cloud on AWS Broadcom · 2021

See all certifications on Credly

03.

Resume

My recent experience across on-prem and cloud projects, by company.

Work in company “Globant”

Mar 2022 - Present

Cloud Engineer - Google Cloud Projects

Working on landing zone configuration and migrations from on-prem environments to public clouds.

• Landing Zone creations.
• Evaluation of applications and servers to be migrated.
• Migration plan.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform, including Google's Cloud Foundation Fabric (CFF) for organization-level deployments.

Work in company “Zerviz”

Mar 2021 - Feb 2022

Tech Lead - Pre Sales

Supported customer cloud migration and application modernization projects, including web, mobile, and custom digital products.

• Reviewed incoming service requests.
• Evaluated solutions and presented proposals.
• Oversaw implementation and monitoring.

Work in company “VMware (Contractor)”

Apr 2018 - Mar 2021

Senior Consultant

Implementation, upgrade, and migration projects across on-prem and AWS environments. Designed VMware infrastructure for major public and private banks, plus other large companies in Chile and abroad.

• Project evaluation.
• Project execution.
• Project implementation.

See my LinkedIn Profile

Education

Universidad Autónoma de Occidente

Postgraduate

Telematics Specialist

Universidad Autónoma de Occidente

Undergraduate

Electronics Engineer

04.

Projects

A few of the organizations I've worked with over the course of my career.

.01

Banco Estado

Updated the production virtualization infrastructure (vCenter, vSphere, and SRM).

.02

Banco Central

Upgraded the production virtualization infrastructure (vCenter, vSphere, and SRM).

.03

Universidad Andres Bello

Migrated virtual machines from on-prem to VMware on AWS using the HCX tool.

.04

Kemet

Migrated virtual machines from Azure to GCP using the M4CE (Migrate to Compute Engine) tool.

.05

Banco Itaú

Migrated virtual machines between on-prem environments using the HCX tool.

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