Cloud-Native Platform Transformation
Kubernetes
Helm
ArgoCD
Istio
Jaeger
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
Kiali
Context
Company operating with manual deployments across 3 environments, experiencing 4+ hour recovery times, 1 hour build times, and 30% deployment failure rate impacting 60+ engineers.
Action
Led migration and creation of 40+ services to Kubernetes orchestration with Helm charts and ArgoCD GitOps. Architected multi-cluster strategy with Istio service mesh for traffic management. Implemented comprehensive observability stack with Prometheus/OTEL metrics, Jaeger distributed tracing, and standardized health checking. Enabled self-service deployments with ArgoCD SSO/RBAC.
Result
Reduced deployment failures from 30% to <2% and MTTR from 4 hours to <10 minutes. Decreased build time by 60%. Saved $500K annually through improved resource utilization.