Engineering reliability at scale.
A solo consultancy built on 8+ years of hands-on platform engineering, driven by a simple belief: infrastructure should be boring — in the best way possible.
From console jockey to platform engineer
Arakaki started with a simple frustration: why does deploying a service to production require a PhD in tribal knowledge, three wiki pages that are outdated, and a prayer to the CI gods?
After 8+ years across startups and enterprises — building Kubernetes platforms from scratch, migrating legacy monoliths to microservices, and designing GitOps workflows that let developers ship with confidence — the answer became clear. Infrastructure shouldn't be exciting. It should be automated, observable, and self-service.
That's what Arakaki delivers. No vendor lock-in, no resume-driven development, no over-engineered platforms. Just pragmatic engineering that lets your team focus on shipping product, not fighting YAML.
Skills & expertise
Battle-tested across production environments serving millions of requests per day.
Technology stack
The tools I reach for daily — chosen for reliability, not hype.
8+ years in the trenches
Systems Administrator & DevOps Engineer
Cut my teeth on bare-metal Linux, VMware, and early Docker adoption. Automated everything in sight with Ansible and Bash. Learned the hard way why YAML indentation matters.
Cloud Engineer at a Fintech Scale-up
Migrated a monolithic Java stack to Kubernetes on AWS. Built the first CI/CD pipeline with GitLab and ArgoCD. Cut deployment time from 2 hours to 8 minutes. On-call war stories ensued.
Platform Engineer at an Enterprise
Designed and operated a multi-cluster Kubernetes platform serving 40+ dev teams. Implemented GitOps at scale, internal developer portal, and Golden Paths. SLO-driven alerting became religion.
Founder & Principal Consultant — Arakaki
Took the plunge into independent consulting. Now helping multiple clients build and operate Kubernetes platforms, mentor engineering teams, and navigate cloud-native transformation with pragmatism.
Let's build something
that doesn't break at 3am.
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