About Me
👋 Hey, I'm Diego — a cloud staff engineer from Uruguay 🧉 who builds tools and infrastructure that help teams ship software more confidently.
I spend most of my time working with cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and the tooling that sits in between. I'm interested in making complex systems easier to understand, debug, and operate — especially when things go wrong.
🧰 Recent Projects
I've built tools for detecting drift in Kubernetes deployments, visualizing CI/CD workflows, and comparing infrastructure changes across versions. Most of my work focuses on turning invisible problems into visible ones before they cause incidents.
🧭 Areas of Focus
I work across cloud infrastructure (mostly AWS), container orchestration, GitOps workflows, and security tooling. My approach tends toward boring, maintainable solutions over clever ones.
Key themes:
- Making multi-region and distributed systems easier to reason about
- Building secure-by-default infrastructure and CI/CD patterns
- Improving observability and debugging workflows
- Creating tools that reduce cognitive load for development teams
🧑💻 Technical Background
I write Go for infrastructure tooling, TypeScript for web-based dev tools, Python for scripting and analysis, and Bash when nothing else will do. I prefer readable code over clever code.
Most of my work involves Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD systems, and cloud platforms — but the specifics matter less than the patterns.
🧠 How I Think
- Security is an architecture problem, not a checklist
- The best platforms fade into the background
- Clear ownership beats perfect tooling
- If you can't explain it at 3 a.m., it's too complex
I'm especially interested in systems that are boring in production, easy to inspect, and clear to own when something breaks.
📫 Get in Touch
Email: me@dcotelo.dev
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dcotelo
GitHub: github.com/dcotelo
X/Twitter: @dcotelo13