Senior Platform Engineer & Architect · Zürich

The trust behind critical platforms

20+ years designing and operating secure, scalable and resilient platforms for banks, telcos and international institutions – with Kubernetes, IaC and GitOps, increasingly for AI and MLOps workloads.

20+ years Experience15 Certifications5 LanguagesZürich, CH
Trusted across
BankingInsuranceTelecommunicationsInternational institutions
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About

For 20+ years I've delivered secure, scalable and resilient platform solutions across enterprise environments – banking, telecommunications and international institutions.

My focus is Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps and cloud-native platform engineering, on a deep foundation of Linux, automation and observability – and increasingly the platform layer for AI and MLOps workloads.

KubernetesOpenShiftDockerHelmTerraformAnsibleArgo CDGitHub ActionsGitLab CIAWSAzureLinuxRHELSLESPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryVaultCiliumvLLMOllama
Experience
20+ years
Based in
Zürich, CH
Certifications
15 · multi-vendor
Mode
Freelance / remote
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Services

I design, build and run robust, secure and sovereign IT infrastructure – from architecture to production. Technical focus: Linux, Kubernetes, OpenShift, IT automation and AI platforms.

Ways to work together
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Architecture Consulting

As a trusted advisor I translate your business requirements into solid, vendor-independent technical architectures – with a focus on digital sovereignty.

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Engineering Support

I reinforce your team as a senior engineer: design, implementation and operation of platforms, automation and infrastructure – hands-on.

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Open Source Projects

I develop and contribute to open-source technologies – focused on open solutions without vendor lock-in.

Technical focus areas
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Container Platforms & Kubernetes

I design and operate scalable, secure container environments on OpenShift and Kubernetes: multi-cluster setups, vulnerability management and continuous delivery via GitOps – so your teams keep shipping on a platform that stands up to production load and audits.

  • OpenShift
  • Kubernetes
  • Argo CD
  • Helm
S/02

IT Automation & Configuration Management

Repetitive tasks are a source of errors. I standardize and automate them end to end with Ansible and GitOps workflows: provisioning, lifecycle management and API integration.

  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • GitOps
S/03

Enterprise Linux & Virtualization

I design, harden and operate Linux environments at scale: architecture planning, secure supply chain, performance tuning and high availability on RHEL and KVM virtualization – a foundation your workloads can rely on for years.

  • RHEL
  • SLES
  • KVM
  • VMware
S/04

AI Platforms & MLOps

AI workloads need a solid platform, not a bolted-on setup. I build and operate the infrastructure for them: GPU scheduling, model serving and reproducible MLOps/LLMOps pipelines on Kubernetes – with the GitOps, observability and security you expect from any production platform.

  • Kubeflow
  • KServe
  • vLLM
  • Ollama
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Observability & SRE

Monitoring, logging and SRE practices for end-to-end reliability and visibility. Your teams see what's happening and react before it hits the business.

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • SRE
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Open Source & Cloud-Native Engineering

I build on open, vendor-independent technology – upstream-first and close to the CNCF ecosystem. Instead of vendor lock-in I rely on open-source building blocks I actively contribute to: for digital sovereignty and platforms that stay maintainable long-term.

  • CNCF
  • Cilium
  • Crossplane
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Experience

Senior Platform Engineer & Architect
Freelance - Santiago Vilas Creo
2025 - Present · Zürich · Kubernetes · AI Infrastructure · Cloud Architecture
Senior Platform Engineer
Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
2024 - 2025 · Basel · OpenShift · Ansible · Observability
Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer
Bank Julius Bär
2022 - 2024 · Zürich · Azure · RHEL · OneTick · Automation
Senior DevOps Engineer
UBS Card Center AG
2017 - 2021 · Zürich · RHEL · Ansible · Platform Ops
Unix & Linux Engineer
Sunrise Communications AG
2004 - 2017 · Zürich · Cfengine · Solaris · Automation

Sectors

Banking · Insurance · Telecommunications · International institutions

Focus

Kubernetes · IaC · GitOps · Observability

Languages

EN · DE · ES · IT · PT

Education

TBZ Technische Berufsschule Zürich

Certified by
AWSMicrosoftRed HatLPICompTIAVMwareITIL
04 · Let's talk

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