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• Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on cloud cost management and optimization
• Core contributor to Koku - Red Hat's open-source cloud cost management platform
• Konflux fan - Leading GitOps and CI/CD initiatives
• DevOps/GitOps enthusiast with hands-on experience in modern deployment workflows
• M.Sc. in Computer Science
• Coffee-driven developer
• Remote worker, passionate about distributed systems, automation, and open source
• Python enthusiast with deep experience in Django, multi-cloud architectures, and data processing at scale

• Cloud Cost Management: Building systems to track, analyze, and optimize costs across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenShift
• DevOps & GitOps: Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows with Konflux, and automated deployment strategies
• Platform Engineering: Designing and operating scalable infrastructure with Kubernetes, OpenShift, and cloud-native tools
• Data Engineering: Processing massive datasets with Pandas, Trino, and PostgreSQL for cost analytics
• Backend Development: Designing scalable APIs with Django and Django REST Framework
• Open Source: Contributing to Red Hat projects and the broader open-source community

Konflux

• Leading the adoption and maintenance of Konflux for CI/CD workflows
• Implementing GitOps best practices and automated deployment pipelines
• Managing container builds, security scanning, and release processes
• Bridging development and operations for seamless software delivery

Koku Core Development

• Multi-cloud data ingestion and processing pipelines
• Cost allocation algorithms and reporting APIs
• Performance optimization for large-scale distributed systems
• GPU cost tracking and infrastructure cost analysis

Koku

Open-source cloud cost management platform for tracking and optimizing costs across multiple cloud providers and OpenShift. Built with Django, PostgreSQL, Trino, and Celery.

Key contributions:

• Multi-cloud data ingestion pipelines (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift)
• Cost allocation and reporting APIs
• Performance optimization for large-scale data processing
• GPU cost tracking and reporting features

Nise

Data generator for cloud cost and usage reports - essential for testing and development of Koku. Supports AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenShift data formats.

Konflux Integration

Leading the implementation of Konflux for GitOps-based CI/CD workflows in my team, including:

• Automated container builds and security scanning
• GitOps deployment workflows with OpenShift
• Integration with enterprise release processes
• Developer experience improvements and documentation

• Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Podman
• GitOps Tools: Konflux, ArgoCD, Flux
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Tekton
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Kustomize
• Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
• Security: Container scanning, SBOM generation, vulnerability management