Cloud native infrastructure | Kubernetes virtualization | Edge and AI platforms | Open source

Global Field CTO at Mirantis CNCF Ambassador | Linkerd Ambassador | Kairos Maintainer

I build infrastructure for running demanding workloads across Kubernetes, bare metal, edge environments, and regulated platforms.

My work sits where platform engineering, virtualization, cluster lifecycle, and AI infrastructure meet. Although I work with customers and engineering leaders at a strategic level, I remain hands-on: designing APIs, building operators, testing infrastructure stacks, and contributing upstream.

• Kubernetes-native virtualization

  Building KubeSwift, a Cloud Hypervisor-first platform for running lightweight virtual machines and isolated OCI workloads as native Kubernetes resources. Its focus includes GPU passthrough, Kubernetes DRA, VM fleets, snapshots, sandboxes, and migration.

• Cloud Hypervisor orchestration

  Building vQuasar, an open-source virtualization management platform built directly around Cloud Hypervisor. It manages fleets of Linux hypervisor hosts through a central control plane, per-host agents, reconciled VM resources, Open vSwitch networking, and live migration.

• Multi-hypervisor infrastructure

  Building VirtRigaud, a Kubernetes operator for managing virtual machines across VMware vSphere, Libvirt/KVM, and Proxmox VE through a unified API, including migration between different hypervisors.

• Immutable edge and bare metal

  Maintaining Kairos, contributing to its Cluster API integration, and developing Beskar7 for Kubernetes-native bare-metal lifecycle management.

• AI and GPU platforms

  Exploring GPU scheduling, confidential workloads, agent sandboxes, distributed inference, hardware isolation, and platform patterns for operating AI in regulated environments.

• Enterprise platform engineering

  Helping organizations design, build, and operate Kubernetes platforms spanning cloud, bare metal, sovereign infrastructure, edge locations, and financial-services environments.

• Maintainer of Kairos
• Creator and maintainer of KubeSwift
• Creator and maintainer of vQuasar
• Creator and maintainer of VirtRigaud and Project Beskar
• CNCF Ambassador
• Linkerd Ambassador
• Organizer of KCD Netherlands

• Languages: Go, Rust, TypeScript, Python
• Platforms: Kubernetes, Cluster API, k0s, Kairos, Cloud Hypervisor, KVM
• Infrastructure: Bare metal, edge, GPU, networking, virtualization, confidential computing
• Engineering: Kubernetes operators, distributed systems, reconciliation, GitOps, platform APIs
• Strategy: Platform engineering, AI infrastructure, regulated cloud, open-source ecosystems

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