I'm a tech engineer based in the Netherlands 🇳🇱, with extensive experience in Staff and Principal engineering roles.
A Stoic apprentice, lifelong learner, and book addict — intrigued by consciousness/mind, and seeking knowledge.
Ah... Sometimes, I write code 👨🏻‍💻.

• 👨‍💻 Staff/Principal Platform Engineer by day — magician & philosopher by night 🌙
• 🚀 CTO atIdeaUP
• 🤖 AI Engineer & indie hacker obsessed with intelligent systems
• 🧠 Currently focused on:AI agents,DevEx, and buildingMCP Servers
• 💬 Available for freelance work, consulting, or OSS in:Kubernetes,AWS,AI,Iac,MCP,DevEx, and full-stack development (MVPs, NextJS)

• Engineering leadership (Staff/Principal roles)
• Systems design & architecture
• Developer Experience (DevEx)
• Infrastructure as Code:Terraform,Terragrunt,Pulumi
• Cloud infrastructure:AWS,GCP,k8s,Serverless
• Languages:.go,.rs,.tf,.hcl,Python,JavaScript
• CI/CD & automation:GitHub Actions,GitLab CI,Dagger.io
• Obsessed with clean code, radical simplicity and developer experience

I'm passionate about OSS and always tinkering with ideas and tools that empower engineers.
Check out some of my recent projects:

• 🔧terragrunt-ref-arch-v3 – Scalable, opinionated Terragrunt architecture
• 📚mcp-terragrunt-docs – MCP documentation template with AI-powered generation
• 🧱terraform-registry-module-template – Template for building Terraform registry modules

• 💼LinkedIn — Alex Torres Ruiz

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1. terraform-registry-module-templateterraform-registry-module-templatePublic template

   A comprehensive template repository for Terraform modules with best practices and GitHub workflow integrations.

   Just 3

2. golang-cli-boilerplategolang-cli-boilerplatePublic template

   Golang CLI Boilerplate is a bulletproof Golang CLI template with batteries included 🔋

   Go 4

3. tftesttftestPublic

   A collection of commonly use functions for terratest 🧪 & terraform 🏗️

   Go 5 2

4. terragrunt-ref-arch-v3terragrunt-ref-arch-v3Public template

   Modular Infrastructure as Code Reference Architecture with Terragrunt and Terraform

   HCL 3

5. mcp-terragrunt-docsmcp-terragrunt-docsPublic

   Deno/TypeScript MCP Server providing context related to Terragrunt documentation.

   TypeScript 12

6. mcp-terraform-aws-provider-docsmcp-terraform-aws-provider-docsPublic

   Deno/TypeScript MCP Server providing context related to the AWS provider for Terragrunt documentation.

   TypeScript 1