I help CTOs and platform teams design, build, and hand over Kubernetes-based platforms that can be understood, operated, and evolved by the teams that own them.
My work sits at the intersection of Go, Kubernetes API machinery, control-plane design, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, and distributed systems.
I am most useful when a team is not only deploying workloads to Kubernetes, but building a product, platform, or control plane on top of it. That is where API shape, controller behavior, ownership boundaries, and automation design become long-term architecture.
I work through focused architecture discovery, hands-on implementation, design review, documentation and structured handover.
The objective is not to create consultant dependency. The objective is to leave behind clearer technical decisions, production-oriented software, explicit ownership boundaries, useful documentation, and a team able to continue without me.
Typical problems I help with:
- Kubernetes APIs, CRDs, and resource lifecycle design
- controllers, reconciliation behavior, and failure handling
- custom API servers and control-plane components
- Go infrastructure software and automation tooling
- platform architecture that must remain connected to code
- review and simplification of existing platform codebases
- documentation and handover for internal teams
Available for selected consulting, fractional, contract, and staff-level engagements.
The best first conversation starts from the engineering problem:
what you are building, why it is difficult now, what decisions are hard to reverse, and what the internal team needs to own after the work is done.