David Martin

I’m David Martin Planelles, a Systems Administrator and DevOps Manager based in Olot, Spain. I specialise in infrastructure, automation, monitoring, and BI. I’m proactive, resourceful, and self-driven, always focused on improving IT processes and tackling complex technical challenges.

Key achievements:
- Automation of CICD Pipelines of a monolith project with microservices.
– Reduced Microsoft Fabric costs by 80% through automation
– Built a custom VM (droplets) autoscaler on DigitalOcean, saving 20% annually
– Led a full migration from an on-premises datacenter to the cloud (40 VMs, AD, CI/CD)
– Integrated critical alerting into Microsoft Teams
– Automated internal processes using ClickUp and n8n

Core skills:
DevOps (GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes), automation (n8n, AI, CLI tools), monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana), BI (Power BI, ERP, Navision), Python/Bash development, and server/network administration.

Experience:
– Energy Tools (2021–present): I lead infrastructure and DevOps, managing hybrid datacenter operations, improving CI/CD workflows, overseeing network infrastructure, ensuring disaster recovery, managing Microsoft 365, building Power BI pipelines, creating automations, and monitoring production environments.
– Masias Invest (2011–2021): I worked as a systems administrator, helpdesk technician, and internal developer, handling vSphere, JDEdwards, Python/Django/Flask, PHP, Bash, and Asterisk.
– Freelance (Hikari-Dev): I founded and managed my own small hosting service for local clients.