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David Espinoza

DevOps / SRE

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Operations Board

Real Operations & Troubleshooting

Hands-on experience resolving incidents, diagnosing production platforms and keeping critical services operating under pressure.

Operational areas

Linux/AlmaLinux and Windows Server
Hosting with Plesk/cPanel
DNS, SSL/TLS and Cloudflare
Email: Postfix, Qmail, Exim, MailEnable, SpamTitan
Virtualization: VMware, Proxmox, ESXi, vCenter
Backups: Veeam, snapshots, restores
Containers: Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes/K3s
Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, PMM, PRTG, BitNinja
Networking: SSH, Tailscale, firewall, CSF, iptables
Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis

Troubleshooting cases

PHP process saturation.
Concurrent connections.
Ports, permissions and ownership in containers.
SMTP issues, bounces and IP reputation.
SPF/DKIM/DMARC.
DNS propagation and controlled changes.
Migrations with rollback.
DatasourceNoData alerts in PMM/Grafana.
Longhorn, CSI and distributed storage.
Exim/Postfix/Plesk/cPanel log analysis.
Internal networking between microservices and reverse proxies.
Health checks, metrics and curl-based validations.

Operational mindset

My experience does not come only from lab work. It has been built by resolving real incidents where operational continuity directly impacts business outcomes.

Runbook board

  • Stability first.
  • Automation next.
  • Scalability after that.
  • Validation before moving traffic.
  • Observability before blaming code.
  • Rollback before destructive changes.
  • Documentation and runbooks.

Technical validation

  • Health checks before traffic changes.
  • Log, metric and alert review for fast decisions.
  • Planned rollback before high-risk changes.
  • Incident documentation and operational learning.