Golden-path templates
Ready-to-use service templates with build, deploy, monitoring and alerting wired in from day one.
Platform engineering: one paved road for every team
When every team deploys differently, every incident is a new puzzle. I build internal developer platforms on Kubernetes — golden paths, self-service environments and standard pipelines — so shipping a new service becomes a routine, not a project.
When to call me
Sounds familiar?
These are the situations where teams usually bring me in.
- Every team has its own deployment scripts, and only their authors understand them.
- Spinning up a new service or environment takes days of tickets and hand-holding.
- Your DevOps engineers are a bottleneck: everything waits in their queue.
- Production, staging and local environments drift apart and behave differently.
- New engineers need weeks of tribal knowledge before their first deploy.
What I deliver
What you get
Self-service environments
Developers create preview and staging environments on their own — with guardrails instead of tickets.
Standard CI/CD
One pipeline model for every service: the same stages, checks and rollback story across teams.
Kubernetes as the common layer
The same experience on Google Cloud and bare metal, so teams don’t have to care where a workload runs.
Clear ownership
A defined split between what the platform provides and what product teams own — no more grey zones.
Docs & onboarding
Documentation and runbooks that let new engineers ship without relying on tribal knowledge.
How it works
From first call to handover
- 01
Map the current paths
Talk to the teams and trace how code gets to production today — where time is lost and where things break.
- 02
Design the paved road
Agree on the golden path: templates, environments, pipelines and the ownership model.
- 03
Roll out incrementally
Start with one team, learn, then migrate the rest — no big-bang rewrites.
- 04
Hand over
Your team owns and extends the platform, backed by documentation and runbooks.
Tools
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- GitOps
- Terraform
- GitLab CI
- GitHub Actions
- Docker
- Google Cloud
- Prometheus
- Grafana
FAQ
Common questions
- Do we need Kubernetes to build a platform?
- Not always — a platform is about consistent workflows, not a specific tool. That said, Kubernetes is often the most practical common layer when you run many services across cloud and bare metal.
- When does platform engineering start to pay off?
- As soon as more than one team deploys to production, or when a single DevOps engineer becomes the bottleneck. A platform can start small and grow together with the company.
- Will you replace our existing tooling?
- Only where it hurts. I prefer to standardize and automate what already works, and to change tools only when there is a clear reason.
Related services
Kubernetes
Clusters on Google Cloud (GKE) or bare metal — designed, migrated, upgraded and hardened. Secure by default, boring to operate.
CI/CD & Releases
Fast, reliable pipelines in GitLab CI or GitHub Actions — from commit to production with automated checks and safe rollbacks.
Observability & Reliability
Metrics, logs and alerts with Prometheus and Grafana: alerting that wakes people up only when it matters, and a plan for when things break.
Contact
Let’s talk about your infrastructure
Tell me what you’re building and where it hurts — I’ll get back to you with next steps.