Building K8s Monitoring from Scratch
Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana — deployed with Helm and wired to real workloads.
Cloud Architect · Platform Engineer · Trainer
Kubernetes, GitOps, zero-trust security, and observability — from bare-metal labs to enterprise-scale Azure/AWS deployments.
About
I've worked in enterprise telecom, investment banking, SaaS startups, and consulting. Today I architect production-grade Kubernetes platforms, design GitOps workflows, and train engineering teams on cloud-native operations. When I'm not deploying Crossplane compositions, I'm writing tutorials or building open-source tools.
Selected Work
Production-grade K8s with GitOps, SSO, Vault secrets, and full cluster rebuild in under 30 minutes.
Centralized SSH access via Keycloak groups — no FreeIPA, no LDAP, instant revocation.
K8s-native Python service reconciling blob access policies and rotating SAS tokens into Key Vault.
Self-service UI abstracting Crossplane behind a role-based wizard. Developers provision infra without K8s knowledge.
Non-invasive AI overlay on OTel → ClickHouse → Grafana for anomaly detection and LLM-powered incident reasoning.
Tutorials & Writing
Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana — deployed with Helm and wired to real workloads.
One ApplicationSet deploys any chart to any cluster — multi-env GitOps without duplication.
K8s API server integrated with OIDC — RBAC driven by identity provider group membership.
Declarative multi-cloud infrastructure using Crossplane compositions and XRDs.
Full telemetry pipeline — traces, metrics, logs via OpenTelemetry Collector into ClickHouse.
Skills & Stack
Experience
Azure, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Crossplane, AI tools
Azure, Terraform/Terragrunt, GitLab, Ansible, AKS, OpenTelemetry, Grafana
Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Grafana, Terraform, Crossplane, ClickHouse
Jenkins, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, ProxMox, Docker, Python, Terraform, Ansible
Kubernetes, OpenShift, Elastic Stack, Ansible, Terraform, Datadog, AWS, Azure, GCP
Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
Hadoop, ElasticSearch, Grafana, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes
OpenStack, Bash, Python, KVM/libvirt, Jenkins, Git
RHEL, Red Hat Cluster, IdM/IPA, RHEV, VMWare ESX, Nagios, ZenOSS
Oracle DS, Perl, Autosys, Zabbix, Linux
RedHat Cluster, RHDS, Oracle, MySQL, Python, Perl, VMWare ESXi
Red Hat Linux, Solaris, LDAP, Linux-HA, Postfix, Iptables, Nagios