I build developer platforms and the agentic AI layer on top of them. Kubernetes at scale, custom operators for GitOps-managed WAF and rate limits, production AI agents in daily use by engineering. Deep fintech and PCI DSS background.
Fifteen years across telecom, fintech, and SaaS. I own platforms end to end — Kubernetes and EKS at scale, AWS with tight IAM and least-privilege, secrets and PCI DSS controls, cost and FinOps, observability, and the incident response that ties it all together. Lately, the agentic AI layer that sits on top of all of it.
My work sits at the intersection of platform engineering, security, and AI infrastructure. I design the guardrails, ship the operators and CRDs, own the on-call rotation, and set the standards other engineers build against. GitOps by default, evidence-first debugging, and a strong preference for automating the boring parts so humans can spend time on the interesting ones.
I built and run a production fleet of AI agents used daily by engineering — for incident triage, code review, alert correlation, and ops automation. Not demos. Real agents with least-privilege cloud access, strict evidence-first prompting, and no hallucinated data. This is where platform engineering is going, and I'm already there.
Founder of Openerra — consulting on platform engineering and AI infrastructure. Owner of zygadlo.ca and openerra.com. 12+ engineers route through me daily for platform, security, and AI infra decisions. I lead by shipping and by making the sharp calls quickly, then documenting the reasoning so the team can follow the same pattern next time.
The platform and AI infrastructure layer I work with daily. Production-grade, not slideware.
Kubernetes
Terraform
Python
PostgreSQL
Cloudflare
Docker
Grafana
Anthropic
OpenClawFifteen years across telecom, fintech, and SaaS.
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