About

At work, Ricky or Rilex (short for Ricky Alexander), is a Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer, at home he is a father who enjoys cooking, reading books and writing on his personal blog.

Ricky is an Indonesian who was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and lived in the Sandy Bay suburbs with his family for 4 years. Later, he moved with his family back to Indonesia.

He has been enjoying the Site Reliability Engineering  & DevOps role for around 4 years ago. During his entire career, he has been working as several roles, an IT Support, Fullstack Engineer, Engineering Manager with a total of 15 years.

One day he dreams to open his own restaurant while still pursuing his interest in writing and publishing his own book


Skills & Expertise

  • Container Orchestration (Kubernetes + Docker)
  • Cloud Platform (GCP, AWS & Alicloud)
  • RDBMS (MySQL, Postgres), NoSQL (MongoDB)
  • IaC (Terraform, Ansible)
  • CI/CD (Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Bitbucket)
  • Programming (Bash, Go, Node.js, Python)
  • Monitoring Tools (Grafana Stack, Datadog, New Relic)
  • SecOps Tools (Wazuh, Sonarqube, Cloudflare)
  • On-call schedule (Opsgenie)
  • Incident Management
  • Leadership