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Available for opportunities Hi, I'm Raul
Senior Software Engineer at Dell Technologies
Air Force veteran → Real estate broker → Self-taught coder → Software engineer. Family man, lifelong learner, and builder of things. I specialize in DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Hashicorp Vault at enterprise scale.
3+
Years at Dell
15+
Years Real Estate
🇺🇸
USAF Veteran
~$ whoami
name: Raul C. Peña
role: Sr. Software Engineer @ Dell
focus: DevOps, Vault, CI/CD
location: Georgetown, TX
~$ cat skills.txt
Go, Python, TypeScript
Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible
Hashicorp Vault, CI/CD
Machine Learning, Data Science
An Unconventional Journey
From serving my country to serving clients to serving code — my path proves it's never too late to reinvent yourself.
'94-'97
Air Force
Honor Guard & Security
'04-'14
San Antonio
Real Estate & Family
'14+
Georgetown
Home, School & Code
Now
Dell Sr. Engineer
DevOps & Vault
Skills & Technologies
DevOps & CI/CD
Hashicorp Vault, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible
Programming
Go, Python, TypeScript, Shell, SQL
AI & Data
Machine Learning, Apache Airflow, Data Pipelines
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Latest from the Blog
Thoughts on software engineering, DevOps, and lessons learned along the way.
Career 4 min read
Learning to Code at 40: What No Bootcamp Tells You
After 15 years in real estate, I taught myself to code at 40. Here's what I wish someone had told me about late career transitions into tech.
career-change self-taught learning software-engineering
February 2, 2026
Read more Tutorial 6 min read
CI/CD Best Practices for Enterprise Teams
Lessons from building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines at Dell Technologies—what works, what doesn't, and the mistakes that taught me the most.
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January 29, 2026
Read more Career 5 min read
What Real Estate Taught Me About Debugging Production Issues
How 15 years of handling real estate crises prepared me for on-call rotations and production incidents in tech.
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January 29, 2026
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