[{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/categories/","section":"Categories","summary":"","title":"Categories","type":"categories"},{"content":" Platform engineer building reliable cloud platforms with Kubernetes, GitOps, and Azure. I design and operate secure, scalable platform capabilities across Kubernetes and Azure, with a focus on practical automation and team enablement.\nExperience # DevOps Engineer Feb 2025 - Present Deutsche Telekom IT Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany (Hybrid) I design and operate platform capabilities across Kubernetes and Azure, with a focus on secure automation, standardization, and resilience.\nLed migration of GCP-hosted Kubernetes clusters from RKE1 to RKE2. Implemented centralized secret management with CyberArk Conjur and GitOps bootstrapping with ArgoCD. Onboarded several team members by rewriting docs and running hands-on workshops. Contributed to Azure Landing Zone: subscription vending, cross-tenant monitoring, CI/CD standardization, and security hardening. Planned and executed a business-critical ExpressRoute migration with zero downtime. Apprentice Sep 2022 - Feb 2025 Deutsche Telekom AG Greater Nuremberg Metropolitan Area (On-site) During my apprenticeship, I worked across platform engineering, automation, and internal tooling used at scale.\nContributed to a namespace-as-a-service platform and GitOps workflows. Open-sourced the Sparrow infrastructure monitoring tool. Helped maintain Azure Landing Zone components and raise engineering standards across teams. Built and operated an internal GenAI + RAG application serving tens of thousands of internal users. View my projects Skills # Languages Go Python Bash TypeScript Cloud Platforms Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform Amazon Web Services Kubernetes Containers and Orchestration Kubernetes Docker Helm Rancher RKE1 / RKE2 Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure Arc Infrastructure as Code Bicep Terraform GitOps and CI/CD ArgoCD Rancher Fleet GitLab CI/CD GitHub Actions Renovate Dependabot PaaS and Serverless Azure Container Apps Azure App Service Azure Functions AI and LLMs GitHub Copilot opencode Model Context Protocol (MCP) Azure AI Foundry Multi-agent systems Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Version Control Git GitLab GitHub Collaboration and Tooling GitLab Docusaurus Obsidian Jira Confluence Microsoft Teams Networking and Connectivity ExpressRoute VNet Peering vWAN Calico Security CyberArk Conjur Azure Key Vault External Secrets Operator Workload Identity Federation Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Microsoft Defender for Cloud Observability Grafana Prometheus OpenTelemetry Azure Monitor Frontend and DX templ Tailwind CSS HTMX React ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/","section":"Hi, I'm Tom","summary":" Platform engineer building reliable cloud platforms with Kubernetes, GitOps, and Azure. I design and operate secure, scalable platform capabilities across Kubernetes and Azure, with a focus on practical automation and team enablement.\nExperience # DevOps Engineer Feb 2025 - Present Deutsche Telekom IT ","title":"Hi, I'm Tom","type":"page"},{"content":" Open-source work I maintain or have contributed to. Main Projects telekom/sparrow A monitoring tool to gather infrastructure network information Go 23 7 lvlcn-t/secret-detection-operator 🔍 Detects hardcoded secrets in ConfigMaps and auto-remediates them via Kubernetes-native resources. Go 3 0 lvlcn-t/loggerhead A powerful and extendable Go logging library.🧾 It offers enhanced log levels, formatted and context-aware logging, and thread-safe operations. 🚀 Go 3 0 lvlcn-t/go-kit 🔧 My personal collection of tools and utilities for the Go programming language. Go 3 0 lvlcn-t/wireflow A simple dependency injection library that allows you to provide and resolve dependencies. 🏗 Python 0 0 Templates and Automation lvlcn-t/meta This repository contains my github workflow templates and general repository templates. It\u0026rsquo;s build on top GitHub\u0026rsquo;s reusable workflows feature. Makefile 0 0 lvlcn-t/templates-golang This repository is a template for GoLang projects. 📦 It includes pre-configured GitHub actions for testing, linting, scanning, and building the project. It also includes a Makefile for easy project management. 🔧 Smarty 1 0 lvlcn-t/templates-general A template for general projects. 📦 It has several existing GitHub actions for testing, continuous integration, and releasing the project. 🔧 Smarty 0 0 Tooling and Personal Infra lvlcn-t/dotfiles Manage your dev environment with ease! 🛠️✨ This repo houses my dotfiles for zsh, Git, Brew, npm, and more, ensuring a seamless and secure setup across machines. Shell 3 0 lvlcn-t/agents This repository houses my personal opencode configurations like agents, commands and model overwrites. JavaScript 1 0 lvlcn-t/raid-mate [WIP] A simple discord bot for managing chores and tasks in a discord server. Go 0 0 ","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/projects/","section":"Projects","summary":" Open-source work I maintain or have contributed to. Main Projects telekom/sparrow A monitoring tool to gather infrastructure network information ","title":"Projects","type":"projects"},{"content":"","externalUrl":null,"permalink":"/tags/","section":"Tags","summary":"","title":"Tags","type":"tags"}]