Natalie Villasana

Natalie Villasana

DevOps Engineer

Atlanta, GA • navillasa.dev

About

DevOps Engineer with 5 years of production cloud infrastructure experience at Storj Labs. After exploring advertising and creative work, I'm returning to DevOps with renewed focus on modern practices including GitOps, observability, and infrastructure automation through hands-on projects.

Featured Projects

📺 TV Dashboard on Kubernetes

A full-stack dashboard using production-grade DevOps practices including GitOps with ArgoCD, observability with Prometheus and Grafana, secrets management with Vault, and CI/CD pipelines deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine. Built around a simple premise – tracking trending shows across streaming platforms – to demonstrate cloud-native architecture patterns.

🚀 Live Dashboard:

Interactive monitoring with streaming analytics

Terraform Kubernetes ArgoCD Prometheus Vault GCP Docker Node.js PostgreSQL React

🪼 Multi-Cloud LLM Router(In Progress)

An AI gateway implementation that distributes LLM requests to the cheapest available cluster across external providers (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) and LLMs self-hosted on Kubernetes clusters in AWS, GCP, and Azure. Routing based on cost, latency, and capability requirements. Features real-time cost calculation, health monitoring, and scale-to-zero capabilities.

🧊 Simulated Demo:

Password: demo123

Go Pulumi Kubernetes Prometheus ArgoCD AWS EKS GCP GKE Azure AKS OpenAI Claude Gemini

☁️ Storj V3 Auditing & Repair Systems

Key contributor to the design, development, and infrastructure of Storj's distributed cloud storage system from 2017 to 2022. My work spanned major improvements to auditing, data repair, monitoring, incident response, fault tolerance, and driving operational excellence across the team.

Go Postgres gRPC Microservices Kubernetes Prometheus

Recent Writing

August 2025