I'm a Cloud Native Engineer at bestcloudfor.me. The job is "get dropped into a customer's environment and make production behave". Cluster designs, GitOps pipelines, secrets and identity, the cost spreadsheet nobody wants to maintain. Mostly Kubernetes: EKS when we can, RKE2 or kubeadm when the customer can't go cloud, hybrid setups when nobody can agree. I work across all of them.

The customers are a mix of sectors. Retail and e-commerce, fintech, SaaS, cybersecurity, marketing tech, logistics, dev-tooling startups, hospitality groups. Some run on prod-grade Kubernetes at scale, some are mid-migration from on-prem GitLab and a fifteen-year-old Active Directory. The interesting part is rarely the tool. It's the customer who needs spend cut by half and won't take downtime as an answer.

The rest of my time goes into community work, technical events, and sharing what I learn through talks, workshops, and writing. I enjoy building communities around cloud and tech, while continuing to explore platform engineering, infrastructure, automation, and security. Long-term, I want to keep working on reliable systems at scale and contribute more through writing and the engineering communities I'm part of.