DevOps Engineer • Platform Engineering
Luis Bauza
Building resilient AWS platforms that ship fast and stay compliant.
I integrate Terraform, automation, and strong guardrails so teams can deploy safely without losing speed. Recent work spans healthcare and large-scale financial platforms.
Cloud coverage
One Pipeline powered most Capital One AWS infra
Fargate adoption
Teams guided into serverless containers
Policies shipped
OPA guardrails cut deploy failures by 1.8%
Developer support
Threads resolved for internal teams
Current
Qualexa Healthcare
DevOps Engineer • Nov 2025 - Present
Integrating Terraform into every AWS workload and cleaning up the cloud baseline so healthcare engineers can ship with confidence.
Terraform-first apps
Reusable modules, drift-free pipelines.
Clean cloud
Guardrails and sane defaults for AWS.
Recent roles
Hands-on platform work across healthcare and enterprise-scale finance.
Nov 2025 - Present
Qualexa Healthcare
DevOps Engineer
Remote - Crown Point, IN
Integrating Terraform into every AWS app and cleaning up the cloud baseline for a healthcare platform.
- Standardizing Terraform modules and CI/CD so new services launch with repeatable infrastructure.
- Hardening AWS environments while keeping developer velocity high for clinical products.
Sep 2022 - Sep 2025
Capital One
Sr. Associate Platform Engineer
Remote - Richmond, VA
Built and supported One Pipeline, the internal AWS deployment suite powering most of the company.
- Kept Terraform-based ECS and ALB provisioning humming for thousands of services across the bank.
- Led the move to AWS Fargate, enabling 45% of engineering teams to adopt serverless containers with guardrails.
- Authored 10+ Rego policies that improved safety and cut pipeline failure rates by 1.8%.
- Drove documentation and office hours that bumped developer experience metrics by 10%.
Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
Capital One
Software Engineer (Contract)
Remote
Supported internal AWS deployment platforms and shipped features that reduced friction for app teams.
- Diagnosed and fixed deployment issues across ECS, EC2, ALB, and Route53 powered stacks.
- Delivered tagging and signing features to improve compliance and auditability.
- Built a reference app deployed via Jenkins as a hands-on guide for internal developers.
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
Perlogix
Software Engineer
Remote - Manassas, VA
Full-stack work for healthcare and finance clients, mixing data automation with cloud delivery.
- Built a React-based patient insights dashboard that increased engagement for clinicians by 30%.
- Automated data workflows with Python (OpenPyXL, Pandas, NumPy), eliminating 300+ hours of manual entry.
- Leveled up AWS (EC2, IAM, S3) quickly to support client deliverables and later platform engineering.
Featured projects
Internal platforms, guardrails, and migrations that moved the needle.
Qualexa Terraform Cloud Baseline
2025Integrated Terraform-first workflows across healthcare AWS apps with reusable modules, guardrails, and CI/CD hooks.
OPA Policy Pack for Deployments
2025Wrote 10+ Rego policies that improved deployment safety and reduced pipeline failures by 1.8% across internal platforms.
One Pipeline Platform - Capital One
2024Internal AWS deployment suite powering 80%+ of cloud infrastructure with Terraform-based automation for ECS and ALB services.
AWS Fargate Transition Playbook
2023Guided 45% of engineering teams to serverless containers with migration patterns, guardrails, and hands-on support.
Toolbox
Infrastructure, policy, and app tooling I reach for often.
Let's make your platform boring in the best way.
Terraform-first apps, safer pipelines, happier developers. I can help you ship faster without sacrificing reliability.