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I'm Salvador Villegas Mancilla, a Cloud & Platform Engineer with 14+ years of experience delivering secure, scalable, and cost-optimised infrastructure. I've led enterprise-scale migrations from AWS to GCP and built AI/ML pipelines with Vertex AI to accelerate model development. I've evolved developer platforms to improve velocity, security, and governance, and I'm comfortable balancing operational cost with performance to align with business objectives. I enjoy creating self-service infrastructure and modernising software delivery pipelines to enhance the developer experience and embed operational excellence. I'm a collaborative leader who thrives in cross-functional teams, partners well with CTOs and engineers, and focuses on reliability, governance, and continuous improvement.…I'm Salvador Villegas Mancilla, a Cloud & Platform Engineer with 14+ years of experience delivering secure, scalable, and cost-optimised infrastructure. I've led enterprise-scale migrations from AWS to GCP and built AI/ML pipelines with Vertex AI to accelerate model development. I've evolved developer platforms to improve velocity, security, and governance, and I'm comfortable balancing operational cost with performance to align with business objectives. I enjoy creating self-service infrastructure and modernising software delivery pipelines to enhance the developer experience and embed operational excellence. I'm a collaborative leader who thrives in cross-functional teams, partners well with CTOs and engineers, and focuses on reliability, governance, and continuous improvement.

Salvador Villegas Mancilla

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I'm Salvador Villegas Mancilla, a Cloud & Platform Engineer with 14+ years of experience delivering secure, scalable, and cost-optimised infrastructure. I've led enterprise-scale migrations from AWS to GCP and built AI/ML pipelines with Vertex AI to accelerate model development. I've evolved developer platforms to improve velocity, security, and governance, and I'm comfortable balancing operational cost with performance to align with business objectives. I enjoy creating self-service infrastructure and modernising software delivery pipelines to enhance the developer experience and embed operational excellence. I'm a collaborative leader who thrives in cross-functional teams, partners well with CTOs and engineers, and focuses on reliability, governance, and continuous improvement.…I'm Salvador Villegas Mancilla, a Cloud & Platform Engineer with 14+ years of experience delivering secure, scalable, and cost-optimised infrastructure. I've led enterprise-scale migrations from AWS to GCP and built AI/ML pipelines with Vertex AI to accelerate model development. I've evolved developer platforms to improve velocity, security, and governance, and I'm comfortable balancing operational cost with performance to align with business objectives. I enjoy creating self-service infrastructure and modernising software delivery pipelines to enhance the developer experience and embed operational excellence. I'm a collaborative leader who thrives in cross-functional teams, partners well with CTOs and engineers, and focuses on reliability, governance, and continuous improvement.

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I’m Salvador Villegas Mancilla, a Cloud & Platform Engineer with 14+ years of experience delivering secure, scalable, and cost-optimised infrastructure. I’ve led enterprise-scale migrations from AWS to GCP and built AI/ML pipelines with Vertex AI to accelerate model development. I’ve evolved developer platforms to improve velocity, security, and governance, and I’m comfortable balancing operational cost with performance to align with business objectives.

I enjoy creating self-service infrastructure and modernising software delivery pipelines to enhance the developer experience and embed operational excellence. I’m a collaborative leader who thrives in cross-functional teams, partners well with CTOs and engineers, and focuses on reliability, governance, and continuous improvement.

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Work Experience

DevOps / Platform Engineer at Figured

March 1, 2023 - Present

Led end-to-end migration from AWS to GCP, designing shared VPC architecture, artifact registry strategy, and governance policies to improve platform scalability and security. Implemented Vertex AI pipelines for ML model training, testing, and deployment, standardising environments for reproducibility and compliance. Built reusable Terraform modules for GCP services (GKE clusters, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Eventarc), reducing provisioning time from days to hours. Embedded observability and SRE practices with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki to enhance incident response and reliability. Streamlined CI/CD workflows (GitLab CI, Workload Identity, automated secret management), cutting deployment friction and increasing release frequency. Aligned infra strategy with business priorities alongside leadership, balancing cost and performance.

Senior Full Stack Engineer at Figured

March 1, 2020 - March 1, 2023

Delivered scalable APIs and UIs for the Figured Intelligence Platform, leveraging MongoDB pipelines with precise validation rules for high-stakes reporting. Ensured data accuracy and reliability for clients including Fonterra, major banks, and the NZ Government. Collaborated with product and infra teams to optimise data access patterns, improve platform resilience, and maintain high security standards.

Lead Software Engineer at Coaching.com

October 1, 2017 - February 1, 2020

Led engineering delivery for enterprise clients (Salesforce, EY, Lockheed Martin, UK Government), managing security, SSO integrations, and infrastructure requirements. Improved the software development lifecycle by implementing self-service site previews using Netlify and Forge with GitHub Actions, enabling earlier feature validation and faster releases. Built and managed infrastructure on DigitalOcean, established CI/CD pipelines, and introduced automation for provisioning and deployments. Grew the dev team from 2 to 14 engineers, embedding best practices for code review, release management, and incident response.