About
I'm a DevOps and platform engineer who also writes the tools. I have spent 13+ years in IT infrastructure, eight of them in DevOps: Kubernetes on AWS and bare metal, GitOps with Argo CD, Terraform, Istio, Vault, and the Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Tempo stack. One habit came out of it: when something in production annoys me twice, I build the fix.
Track record
- Consolidated 10+ Kubernetes clusters across four clouds into four, under one hub-and-spoke Argo CD control plane — the write-up.
- Scaled a crypto exchange from 2–3k to 15–20k requests per second on EKS and bare-metal Kubernetes, with zero-downtime releases.
- Ran Kubernetes in air-gapped enterprise environments under strict infosec and compliance rules.
- Since July 2026, building ICE and deusex.
What I'm building
- ICE — active defence for Kubernetes. It turns findings and drift into GitOps pull requests a person approves, and keeps a case open until a fresh measurement proves the fix. In development; looking for design partners.
- deusex — an autonomous development loop that plans, builds, reviews and merges code on a schedule and stops only at the decisions people have not handed over. It develops ICE, and itself.
- KubeMeridian — Kubernetes observability for Grafana. Archived in October 2026.
Work with me
Design-partner pilots for ICE, conversations about autonomous development with deusex, contract work on Kubernetes, observability, cost and SLOs — or just comparing notes on platform engineering.
or write to [email protected]