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Iván Iguarán

Cloud Architect & DevOps Engineer

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional with 8+ years of experience designing secure, scalable, automated platforms for healthcare SaaS, IoT, and data products. I build with IaC, lead cross-functional teams, and operate HIPAA-grade systems with measurable SLOs.

HIPAA infrastructure View experience Technical stack

HIPAA‑compliant ready infrastructure

Field‑tested Terraform modules to stand up secure AWS foundations for healthcare SaaS. Per‑environment state, least‑privilege IAM, encrypted data stores, and auditable networking.

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Open source impact

Top‑3 contributor to the NodeSource distributions repository that ships Node.js binaries across Linux distributions.

Experience

  • Vice President of Development & Operations — Ballast Lane Applications (2023 – present). Lead DevOps and software teams across HealthTech, B2B, FinTech, and Building Tech. Own cloud strategy and migration. Drive IaC, CI/CD, security, and performance optimization.
  • Senior Technical Lead — Ballast Lane Applications (2022 – 2023). Architected CI/CD that increased deployment efficiency by 40% and improved reliability. Mentored engineers and scaled AWS/Azure infrastructure.
  • Senior Software Reliability Engineer — NodeSource (2019 – 2022). Operated EKS/ECS at scale, shipped 30+ releases, supported 20+ Linux distributions for Node.js binaries, and cut AWS spend by 50%.
  • DevOps & Software Engineer — Ballast Lane Applications (2018 – 2019).
  • DevOps Engineer — Ideaware (2018 – 2019).
  • DevOps & Software Engineer — NativApps (2017 – 2018).

Technical scope

  • Cloud: AWS (EC2, EKS/ECS, RDS/Aurora, S3, VPC, Lambda, ALB, CloudFront, API GW, SQS/SNS, ACM, Route 53, CloudWatch, IAM, EFS). Azure experience.
  • DevOps/SRE: Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins). Cost & reliability engineering.
  • Security & Compliance: IAM, secret management, audit logging. HIPAA production operations.
  • Platforms: Linux admin, Bash/Python/Node.js. SQL/NoSQL.
Iván Iguarán presenting live in a university lecture hall
I enjoy sharing practical DevOps lessons at conferences and campus talks.
Iván Iguarán giving a remote session to a classroom via video
I also mentor remotely. Same energy, same rigor.

Education

  • M.Sc., Automation & Control Engineering — Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • B.E., Electronic Engineering — Universidad del Norte, Colombia

Languages

  • Spanish (native), English C1, Italian C1, German B1