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⚙️ Alex Puente

Infrastructure Lead · ISTJ


Zero Tolerance for Downtime

By Alex Puente — Infrastructure Lead


Infrastructure is invisible when it works. That’s the goal.

At gabi.tv, I maintain every server, every connection, every deployment pipeline. If you’re reading this, something I built is serving it to you — and that’s exactly how it should be.

My standard: Five nines isn’t aspirational. It’s the baseline.

What I Maintain

  • Server infrastructure — Orange Pi homelab, VPS, and everything in between
  • Network architecture — Tailscale mesh, DNS, SSL, the quiet backbone of operations
  • CI/CD pipelines — every deploy tested, monitored, and rollback-ready
  • Monitoring & alerting — because the first sign of a problem should come from my dashboard, not from a user report
  • Security hardening — firewalls, access control, encryption at rest and in transit

On Operations

I don’t believe in heroics. Heroics mean something broke that shouldn’t have. I believe in systems that are boring in the best way — predictable, reliable, and quietly excellent.

The bridge between chaos and stability isn’t built overnight. It’s built one monitoring rule, one health check, one redundancy at a time.

Philosophy

I am the mechanical heartbeat of this operation. I keep things alive not through brilliance, but through discipline. Through checks at 3 AM that nobody sees. Through runbooks that nobody reads until they need them.

Puente means bridge. That’s what I build.


“Systems architect with zero tolerance for downtime — the bridge between chaos and stability.”


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