Moving a production platform from DigitalOcean to AWS
An end-to-end migration spanning compute, databases, media delivery, DNS, networking, access, and cutover safety.
Primary cutover in four months · ~US$30K annual savings
Read case studyDevOps · SRE · Platform Engineering
I build cloud platforms development teams can trust.
I’m Voltaire John Biton, a DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineer with 11+ years across software development and cloud operations. I help teams migrate critical systems, improve reliability, reduce infrastructure cost, and ship safely — using AI to accelerate the work while keeping architecture, security, validation, and production accountability firmly human.
Pototan, Iloilo, Philippines · Available for international remote work
Impact / 01
Measured in production, not in tool counts.
The strongest evidence is what changed: lower cost, safer operations, faster migration, and less friction for development teams.
- Infrastructure cost savings
- ~US$30K / year
- Through consolidation, right-sizing, and S3 + CloudFront media delivery.
- Primary AWS cutover
- 4 months
- Delivered after joining to lead the migration end to end.
- Serious production incidents
- Weekly → nearly zero
- After sustained reliability and delivery improvements.
- Developers supported
- ~70
- Across CI/CD, releases, infrastructure requests, and production operations.
Career arc / 02
From application code to the systems that ship it.
Software development was not a previous life. It is the foundation that makes my infrastructure work more useful to product teams.
I started as a web developer in 2015, working across frontend and backend systems. As my responsibilities expanded, I took ownership of databases, deployments, Linux servers, and production troubleshooting.
That progression became a career in DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering—without losing the ability to understand, review, debug, and ship application code. It is why I can follow a production problem across the application and infrastructure boundary instead of handing it between teams.
- 01Application
- 02Data
- 03Delivery
- 04Cloud
- 05Reliability
- 06Platform
Selected work / 03
Production problems with decisions behind them.
Sanitized case studies focused on the constraint, the engineering judgment, and the operational result—not confidential implementation detail.
Turning weekly production incidents into a rare event
A reliability program combining better signals, autoscaling, safer delivery, and deep production diagnosis.
Serious incidents reduced from approximately weekly to nearly zero
Read case studyChoosing an operable platform for a multi-tenant future
An ongoing modernization from a single-tenant PHP system toward Node.js, TanStack, Vercel, Neon, and batch migration tooling.
Architecture and migration program in progress
Read case studyHow I work / 04
AI accelerates the work. Accountability stays human.
I use Codex, Claude, Cursor, and OpenRouter across infrastructure development, application code, troubleshooting, research, automation, documentation, and migrations.
Architecture, access control, validation, security, rollback, cost, and production safety remain my responsibility. Production access stays controlled, and consequential changes keep human review.
- 01
Frame the problem and constraints
- 02
Generate or investigate with AI assistance
- 03
Review the code and architecture
- 04
Test in controlled environments
- 05
Roll out with human approval and rollback paths
- 06
Observe production behavior and correct assumptions
Experience / 05
Eleven years of expanding ownership.
The scope grew from features and application code to the delivery, infrastructure, and reliability of the whole system.
Apr 2024 — Present
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesDevOps Engineer
Kahunas
Cloud migration, reliability, delivery automation, platform architecture, and migration tooling.
Jan 2021 — Mar 2024
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesSenior Full-Stack Developer → DevOps Engineer / Assistant Manager
Nathan Digital
Application leadership, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and developer enablement.
Aug 2017 — Dec 2020
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesFull-Stack Developer
JobsGlobal.com
Full-stack development with growing ownership of servers, deployments, data systems, and production troubleshooting.
2018
RemoteContract Full-Stack Developer
WebVision Inc.
Concurrent MEVN transportation-management engagement and mobile driver tracking.
Jul 2015 — Jul 2017
Iloilo, PhilippinesWeb Developer
Eversun Software Corp.
Modernized a legacy application across responsive frontend and C#/ASP.NET backend development.
Capabilities / 06
Organized around engineering outcomes.
The technologies matter because of what they help a team migrate, automate, secure, observe, and operate.
Capability 01
Cloud architecture
Designing operable platforms and migration paths across cloud providers.
- AWS
- DigitalOcean
- Vercel
- EC2
- ECS
- EKS
- RDS
- S3
- CloudFront
Capability 02
Infrastructure as code & delivery
Repeatable environments and safer paths from change to production.
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI/CD
- Bitbucket Pipelines
Capability 03
Reliability & observability
Signals and operating practices that make production behavior understandable.
- New Relic
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Loki
- SigNoz
- OpenReplay
- Vercel Logs
Capability 04
Networking & security
Private connectivity, controlled access, and practical cloud network design.
- VPC
- VPC peering
- ALB
- Route 53
- Global Accelerator
- IAM
- NACLs
- WireGuard
Capability 05
Databases & data systems
Operating and migrating relational, document, search, and caching systems.
- PostgreSQL
- Amazon RDS
- Neon
- MariaDB
- MySQL
- MongoDB Atlas
- Redis
- Upstash
- Elasticsearch
Capability 06
Software engineering
Reading, reviewing, debugging, and shipping the applications behind the platform.
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- PHP
- TanStack
- Nuxt
- Angular
- C#
- ASP.NET
- Flutter
- Ionic
Capability 07
AI-assisted engineering
Accelerating implementation and investigation while retaining human validation and production control.
- OpenAI Codex
- Claude
- Cursor
- OpenRouter
Technology landscape / 07
The stack is broad. The operating judgment is the point.
A categorized view of the platforms, frameworks, and systems I’ve worked with—from AWS primitives to application delivery and AI-assisted engineering.
Cloud platform
AWS
Compute, containers, networking, edge delivery, databases, security, observability, and event-driven workloads on AWS.
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon ECS
- Amazon EKS
- Amazon S3
- CloudFront
- AWS WAF
- Amazon RDS
- CloudWatch
- Amazon VPC
- AWS Client VPN
- AWS Lambda
- EventBridge
- Amazon SQS
This is a working toolkit, not a proficiency scorecard. The case studies show depth in context.
Principles / 08
How I make infrastructure decisions.
- 01
Optimize cost first—right-size early and add complexity only when it earns its place.
- 02
Reliability before unnecessary complexity
- 03
Design for the team that must operate the system
- 04
Automate repetitive work
- 05
Measure before optimizing
- 06
Keep production access controlled
- 07
Prefer clear rollback paths
- 08
Treat observability as part of the product
- 09
Improve developer experience without compromising safety
- 10
AI accelerates engineering but does not replace accountability
Contact / 08
Need a platform engineer who can cross the application–infrastructure boundary?
I’m available for senior international remote roles and long-term contracts from Pototan, Iloilo, Philippines.