DevOps / Platform engineer with 20+ years across telecom, finance and education — Kubernetes & OpenShift, enterprise observability & AIOps, GitOps/Infra-as-Code, and local-first AI infrastructure.
Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ceph/Rook/Longhorn storage, HA + DR design.
CA Spectrum/UIM, BMC AIOps, Grafana, Zabbix — proactive detection & remediation.
Ansible, Terraform, n8n, GitHub Actions, BlueBuild, immutable OS images.
LLM gateways, LM Studio, prompt-cache-aware compression, self-hosted model routing.
Immutable, signed Fedora Silverblue OS image built with BlueBuild. GitOps: every change lands as a PR into a GitHub Actions pipeline emitting a Sigstore/cosign-signed image, rebased via rpm-ostree.
Self-hosted multi-node cluster (kind-based) with RustFS distributed storage for persistent volumes, exposed via dedicated console & API endpoints — a real running control-plane.
Self-hosted LLM gateway routing one endpoint across local LM Studio models and 90+ free cloud tiers, with stacked RTK + Headroom lossless compression that preserves the prompt cache.
Automotive reverse-engineering: read the KTM CAN bus (ECU 0x7EA) and decode TPMS at 433 MHz. Kotlin/Android dashboard fed by CAN-to-BT/USB bridges and an ESP32+MPC2515 interface.
Containerized personal agent (WebUI gateway + dashboard + terminal) on IPG, fronted by oauth2-proxy, wired to an LLM gateway via MCP — scheduled jobs and a real terminal + browser.
ESP32-S3 fan controller with a web UI — 25 kHz PWM on GPIO7, WS2812 status LED, WiFi, mDNS/CDCOnBoot. Plus a 4S3P Li-ion battery-pack engineering plan for an EV bench.
Automation and agent platform hosted at n8n.tarcins.network: live status API endpoints for the Kubernetes & PostgreSQL clusters, an SSH command runner across the lab, an MCP server exposing web search, and an LLM agent that chats with the Postgres store.

Central Grafana dashboard aggregating health and metrics from the Kubernetes cluster and a cloud-native, high-availability PostgreSQL (operator-managed) database — fed by the lab's live status endpoints for real-time, single-pane monitoring.

Open to platform / DevOps / observability engineering roles and principal consulting engagements.