#NicolasPalavecino

#NicolasPalavecino

MANAGER
I'm Nicolás Palavecino, a seasoned Tech Manager with 10+ years of experience driving reliability, performance, and quality in large-scale platforms across Latin America and beyond.
Nicolas Palavecino
SRE
I didn't code every line of this site — I adapted a template. But staying close to the work matters. Even in leadership, I believe we should understand the craft, speak the language, and sometimes code a little too.
OPERATIONS
I am an engineering manager with a strong foundation in site reliability, quality, and performance. I lead distributed teams across Latin America and globally, driving stability, efficiency, and business-aligned outcomes. With a background in IT operations, cloud infrastructure, and engineering leadership, I’m passionate about building resilient systems, enabling autonomy, and creating high-performing cultures. I'm a results-driven leader on the path to C-Level roles, focused on impact and purpose at scale.

Professional milestones

Grupo Falabella
Dec 2023 – Present Tech Team Lead SRE & PERF

Leading Site Reliability Engineering and Performance teams at the Digital Factory Logistics.

Design and implementation of technical and business observability strategies across LATAM.

Definition of key metrics, dashboard generation, alert automation, and MTTR reduction.

Coordinated work with teams in Chile and India under agile methodologies.

Grupo Falabella
Jun 2022 – Nov 2023 Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Implemented technology to streamline deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of critical services.

Developed performance and scalability tests.

Managed incidents, postmortems, and distributed systems maintenance.

Business observability, monitoring, and KPI definition.

Grupo Falabella
Sep 2021 – Jul 2022 Site Reliability Engineer

Member of the SRE team for Digital Factory Logistics, working with teams in Chile and India.

Managed Kubernetes clusters, load testing, and monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog.

Contributed to the design of autonomous solutions, CI/CD, and resilient platforms.

Technical stack: Bash, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, HELM, Linux. GCP, Azure, Terraform, GitLab.

CLM Consultores
Jan 2021 – Oct 2021 Site Reliability Engineer

Member of the SRE team for Falabella's CIAM platform.

Critical platform with over 7 million active users 24/7.

Implemented technology for autonomous service deployment, monitoring, and operations.

Incident management, postmortem analysis, and load testing.

Maintained availability, latency, and overall system health.

Kubernetes cluster management, monitoring, and observability.

Agile environment and systematic problem-solving.

Evertec (ex-BBR)
Sep 2019 – Jan 2021 Infrastructure/Platform Consultant

Part of the infrastructure and platform team, ensuring operational continuity of B2B, B2C, store, and logistics platforms in Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Argentina.

Clients: Cencosud, SMU, ABCDIN, Construmart, Inkafarma, Santander, Hites, Esmax, Forus, H&M, Samsonite, among others.

Configured and automated Dev, QA, and PROD environments.

Managed Linux servers and virtualized environments (XenServer, Ovirt).

SNMP monitoring and Jenkins pipeline configuration.

Managed services like Apache, Pulse, Keepalived, HAProxy, JBOSS, Wildfly, Tomcat.

Used Docker, AWS (EC2, S3), Git, Amanda Backup.

Palavecino & Co spa
Feb 2017 – Sep 2019 Co-founder

Specialty coffee shop and roastery in Tomé, Biobío region.

Co-founder: project evaluation, design, and business implementation from scratch.

Managed operations, sales, marketing, and business strategy.

Led and trained a team of 10 people.

P.M.S CHILE
Sep 2016 – May 2019 Project Manager

Responsible for IT project planning and execution, milestone tracking, and performance indicator generation.

Ensured methodological compliance and supported strategic management of the department, including budgeting.

In charge of configuration and documentation for the company’s underwater robotics division.

Topics: Arduino, Linux, C.

Main clients: Multiexport, Asmar, Asenav, Camanchaca.

EyC Computación
Aug 2014 – Jun 2016 Infrastructure & HA Specialist

Systems engineering across Intel, System X, Storage, Linux, Windows, and VMware platforms.

Managed IT platforms, server consolidation, virtualization, security, networking, and performance.

Coordinated implementation teams and supervised on-site work.

Handled client conflict management, technical proposals, and department budgeting.

Clients: Evalueserve, Farmacias Knop, Mutual de Seguros, Chilean Navy, Demaria.

Keywords: Linux, VMware, Storage, TSM, IBM.

Educational journey

Postgraduate Diploma in Finance and Risk Management

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

2024 - 2025

Specialization in corporate finance, financial instruments, risk assessment, and decision-making models.

Bachelor of Applied Engineering in Computer Systems

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM)

2014 - 2016

Focus on software development, system architecture, databases, and IT project management.

Associate Degree in Telecommunications and Networking

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM)

2011 - 2013

Specialization in network infrastructure, telecommunications systems, routing/switching, and wireless technologies.

CTE in Electronics – Technical High School Diploma

Colegio Salesiano de Valparaíso

2007 - 2010

Career & Technical Education program focused on electronics, instrumentation, and electrical systems.

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