Staff Platform & Software Engineer with 20+ years building production systems — from distributed Go backends and Kubernetes operators to full observability stacks and GPU-aware schedulers. I care about systems that are reliable by design, not by accident.
Based in the UK.
As a software engineer, I write production Go — Kubernetes operators, custom schedulers, CLI tooling, gRPC services, and infrastructure automation. I've contributed to and maintain several open source tools in the Kubernetes and Terraform ecosystems.
As an SRE / Platform Engineer, I design and operate observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, VictoriaMetrics), define SLOs and error budgets, build incident response automation, and own reliability across distributed multi-cloud environments. I've built platforms that others ship on, not just infrastructure for its own sake.
| Project | What it does | Language |
|---|---|---|
| terraform-provider-kubectl | Terraform provider for managing raw Kubernetes manifests via kubectl — used by teams who need finer control than the official provider | Go |
| gitlab-runner-operator | Kubernetes operator to manage GitLab Runner lifecycle on-cluster | Go |
| terraform-application-argocd | Terraform module for deploying applications into Argo CD | HCL |
| Helm Charts | Various Helm charts for open source projects | Helm |
Languages Go (primary) · Python · Bash
Kubernetes EKS · AKS · OpenShift · bare-metal · Karpenter · Cilium · Istio
client-go · controller-runtime · admission controllers · operators
Observability Prometheus · Grafana · Mimir · Loki · Tempo · VictoriaMetrics
OpenTelemetry · Datadog · ELK · SLOs · SLIs · error budgets
IaC Terraform (Professional certified) · Crossplane · Ansible · CDK
GitOps Argo CD · Helm · Kustomize · multi-cluster fleet management
Cloud AWS (EKS · EC2 · VPC · IAM · CloudWatch · S3 · Lambda)
Azure · GCP · Hetzner · cross-cloud private networking
Security Kyverno · HashiCorp Vault · Keycloak · OPA · RBAC · Zero Trust
SOC 2 · policy-as-code · supply chain security · SBOM
CI/CD GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Jenkins · monorepo pipelines at scale
- CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- HashiCorp Terraform Authoring & Operations Professional
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate
I occasionally write about infrastructure, Go, and platform engineering at blog.alekc.org.