# Álvaro Mantilla — Cloud Systems Architect

> Senior Cloud Systems Architect with 20+ years building and securing mission-critical AWS infrastructure. Architecture, DevOps automation, security, AI operations, and custom AI systems for teams that need resilience, clarity, and fewer production surprises.

## About

Álvaro Mantilla architects secure AWS, DevOps, AI operations, and Linux/OpenBSD/Unix-like infrastructure for teams that need resilience and calm delivery. He turns hidden risk into boringly reliable systems — connecting architecture, security, automation, and AI-assisted operations into one calm delivery loop — and also designs and builds custom AI systems end-to-end.

Philosophy: "I build invisible castles made of bits and logic — just as Hiro taught me to guard what matters, in silence."

## Capabilities

- **Cloud Architecture** (AWS / network / IAM): Design AWS environments that are explicit, resilient, and cost-aware: accounts, networks, IAM, compute, edge, storage, and recovery patterns.
- **DevOps & Automation** (Python scripts / Terraform / Ansible / CI): Replace fragile manual work with Python infrastructure scripts, pipelines, infrastructure as code, repeatable deployments, and operational runbooks teams can trust.
- **Security & Reliability** (zero trust / encryption): Treat security as system design: threat modeling, least privilege, encryption, network segmentation, and operational controls that survive growth.
- **AI for Infrastructure & Ops** (Bedrock / diagnostics): Use LLMs where they create real leverage: log triage, alert explanation, incident summaries, knowledge retrieval, and root-cause acceleration.
- **Custom AI Systems** (RAG / AWS Knowledge Base / client fit): Design client-specific AI systems with different capabilities, retrieval layers, and AWS Knowledge Base integrations so the model fits the workflow.
- **AI Engineering** (RAG / agents / apps): Build focused AI systems around business workflows: retrieval pipelines, internal assistants, agentic tools, and integration with existing infrastructure.
- **Observability & Incidents** (metrics / traces / logs): Build signal systems that reveal what matters: useful logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alert policies, and incident practices.

## Impact

- 20+ years building critical systems
- 52% faster incident resolution with AIOps
- 78% workforce savings via AI-powered automation
- 27% infrastructure cost reduction at scale

## Skills

- Cloud: AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, IAM, KMS, VPC, CloudFront, S3, Bedrock, Knowledge Base)
- Systems: OpenBSD, Linux, Nginx, Docker
- Languages: Python, Rust, Bash
- DevOps & Security: Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Zero Trust
- AI & LLMs: AWS Bedrock, Claude, GPT, RAG systems, AWS Knowledge Base, AI agents

## Availability

Available for senior cloud architecture, DevOps/security leadership, AI operations, and consulting engagements — full-time remote roles, contract or consulting work, and architecture review or technical advisory. Remote / worldwide.

## Contact

- Website: https://www.alvaromantilla.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvaro-mantilla-aws-architect
- Contact form: https://www.alvaromantilla.com/#contact

## Links

- [Full details](https://www.alvaromantilla.com/llms-full.txt)
- [Spanish version](https://www.alvaromantilla.com/llms-es.txt)