Principal Platform Engineer
Carlos Gorrochategui
Open to opportunitiesSpain · CET · open to US hours
I run the platform layer for a living and a cluster at home for the practice. Both teach the same lesson: the interesting part is never the install, it's what happens on the third rebuild at 2am.
Bay 01
19U populated · all of it real
- patch panel24-port
- switchL2/L3 · VLANs · LACP
- Talos Cluster ManagerProxmox · Terraform · Talos · Kubernetes
- DeckctlGolang
- Gitlab Project ManagerTerraform · Gitlab
- CKA + CKS ScenariosKubernetes · Security · CKA · CKS
- Sentry Project managerTerraform · Sentry
- observabilityPrometheus · Grafana · Loki · Tempo
- UPSthe boring part that saves you
Flagship · 4U
Talos Cluster Manager
Manage your Proxmox Talos cluster lifecycle using Terraform
Standing a cluster up once is a weekend. Standing it up identically every time — nothing undocumented, no machine that only works because of something I did and forgot — is the actual job, and the only version that survives contact with a team.
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Carlos Gorrochategui — Principal Platform Engineer
Building reliable systems at scale
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What I'm good at
Platform & Infrastructure
- Kubernetes operator development
- AWS & cloud infrastructure design
- Terraform & infrastructure as code
- Helm chart authoring & management
- ArgoCD & GitOps workflows
Developer Experience & CI/CD
- GitLab CI pipeline templates
- Reusable pipeline frameworks
- Docker image optimization
- Internal developer platforms (IDP)
- MLOps pipeline automation
Observability & Reliability
- OpenTelemetry instrumentation
- Prometheus & Grafana dashboards
- Loki log aggregation & Tempo tracing
- SLO/SLA definition & alerting
- Incident response & runbooks