Senior Platform Engineer & Architect · ZürichThe 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
Experience across
BankingInsuranceTelecommunicationsInternational institutions
01

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

  • 01

    Architecture Consulting

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

  • 02

    Engineering Support

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

  • 03

    Open Source Projects

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

Technical focus areas

  • S/01

    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
  • S/05

    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
  • S/06

    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

  1. Senior Platform Engineer & Architect

    Freelance - Santiago Vilas Creo

    2025 - Present · Zürich · Kubernetes · AI Infrastructure · Cloud Architecture

  2. Senior Platform Engineer

    Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

    2024 - 2025 · Basel · OpenShift · Ansible · Observability

  3. Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

    Bank Julius Bär

    2022 - 2024 · Zürich · Azure · RHEL · OneTick · Automation

  4. Senior DevOps Engineer

    UBS Card Center AG

    2017 - 2021 · Zürich · RHEL · Ansible · Platform Ops

  5. 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
    • Solutions Architect - Associate
    • Azure Fundamentals
    • RHCSA
    • LPIC-2
    • LPIC-1
    • Linux+
    • Linux Network Pro (CLNP)
    • IT Operations Specialist (CIOS)
    • Systems Support Specialist (CSSS)
    • Network+
    • A+
    • Certified Professional · vSphere
    • Certified Associate
    • v4 Foundation
    • v3 Foundation
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