excloud
platform engineer
jun 2023 to aug 2026
remote
my work crossed the whole machine: qemu/kvm compute, spdk block storage, managed kubernetes, networking, identity, and the tools people used to control them.
it was a small team, so production was part of the design. i handled escalations directly and carried what broke back into the control planes.
- compute / storage
- a go control plane over qemu/kvm, and spdk + nvme-of block storage whose reconciler recovered interrupted provisioning instead of leaving orphaned volumes behind.
- clusters / network
- managed kubernetes through bootstrap, cilium, csi, and karpenter; plus identity, authoritative dns, and the arp/ndp machinery under the network.
- developer surface
- a go http layer that derives openapi 3.1 from types, feeding the sdk, cli, and terraform provider used across more than twenty services.
4,000+ accounts380 active vms140 managed postgres clusters20+ internal services