Mossaab Stiri

Kubernetes Platform Engineer | Golden Kubestronaut

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Mobility: Île-de-France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

MicroservicesDevOpsKubernetesn8nLLMs / Large language modelsNodeRedisAIGolangPythonAWSElasticsearchDatadogPrometheusGoogle Cloud PlatformSupabaseGitDockerRESTful APIsGitHubPostgreSQLGitLabGrafanaWeWebTerraformMySQL

Languages

EnglishArabicFrench

About me

Intro

Platform Engineer specializing in Kubernetes and AI infrastructure, with 10+ years building and operating production platforms. Recent focus: designing internal AI platforms on Kubernetes: self-hosted Langfuse for agentic observability, n8n and MCP server fleets for automation agents, GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and Helm, event-driven automation with KEDA. Golden Kubestronaut (15 CNCF certifications) — among a few hundred engineers worldwide holding the full set.

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Work experience

Platform Engineer

PwC FranceFreelance

Oct 2023 - Present

2 years 9 months

Remote

• Build and maintain a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform (Azure AKS) hosting applications across multiple development teams. • Architect GitOps deployment workflows (ArgoCD + Helm) and a library of reusable Helm charts standardizing deployment patterns platform wide. • Productionize an internal AI platform: self-hosted Langfuse on Kubernetes (Azure Blob, Valkey, Postgres, ClickHouse) for observability and prompt management of agentic applications. • Deploy and operate a fleet of MCP servers and self-host n8n as the internal workflow automation platform with a vector database (pgvector). • Design and build an event-driven solution to automatically execute SQL scripts on databases hosted in Kubernetes clusters. • Implement scale-to-zero for non-production environments using KEDA, reducing idle compute overhead. • Develop Python tooling for platform components: ClamAV-based antivirus scanning, Langfuse data lifecycle management, and event-driven blob sync between Azure Storage Accounts (KEDA). • Work cross-functionally with Architecture, Security, and development teams to drive cloud-native adoption and upskill DevOps engineers. Stack: Azure, AKS, ArgoCD, Helm, KEDA, Istio, Kyverno, ExternalSecrets, Langfuse, MCP, n8n, PostgreSQL, pgvector, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Golang, GitLab, GitHub

DevOps Engineer

AkeneoFreelance

Apr 2022 - Aug 2023

1 year 5 months

Remote

• Externalize data services from Kubernetes to managed CloudSQL instances (GCP), including migration from MySQL Kubernetes services. • Develop Cloud Functions to dynamically provision CloudSQL instances, databases, users, and credentials. • Manage Kubernetes applications using ArgoCD and Helm. • Build Datadog dashboards for platform-wide observability. • Automate Datadog platform configuration using Terraform. Stack: GCP, GKE, Cloud Functions, ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform, CircleCI, Datadog, Elasticsearch, CloudSQL, GitHub, NodeJS

DevOps Engineer

Aldebaran, part of United Robotics GroupFreelance

Sep 2019 - Oct 2021

2 years 2 months

Paris, Île-de-France, France

• Design and deploy Kubernetes clusters across environments on AWS (EKS). • Create and maintain Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure (IaC). • Build Helm charts for microservices; collaborate with development teams on Kubernetes configuration and testing. • Set up monitoring and alerting for Kubernetes clusters (Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, PagerDuty). • Build a Python service to export Kubernetes TLS certificates to AWS Certificate Manager. • Automate instance configuration using Ansible; build CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes services. • Analyze cloud costs and implement optimization measures. Stack: AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, ExternalSecrets, ExternalDNS, Cert-manager, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Elasticsearch, WSO2 API Manager, PagerDuty, Python

DevOps Engineer

BoursoBank

May 2018 - Aug 2019

1 year 4 months

Paris

• L3 support on production systems; incident resolution and environment maintenance. • Migrate applications to Tomcat servers: environment provisioning (VMware). • Configuration / integration of external service providers. • Lead evaluation and deployment of a SAN storage solution across production datacenters (Pure Storage, Brocade FC). • Automate operational tasks using Terraform, Puppet, and Jenkins. Stack: Linux (RHEL, Debian), VMware, Terraform, Puppet, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Zabbix, Grafana, Pure Storage, IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, Apache, Tomcat

System Engineer

Metaware Technologies

Aug 2015 - May 2018

2 years 10 months

Casablanca, Morocco

• Set up and configure CICS transactional environments on Linux (IBM TXSeries on RHEL). • Develop tooling for automated CICS configuration generation (Java, Python). • Performance testing and system tuning for production environments. • L3 support for development teams; technical solution design and documentation. Stack: Linux (RHEL, Debian), VMware, IBM MQ, DB2, Java, Python, Git, JIRA


Education

Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications

Ingénieur (Bac +5)

2012 - 2015

3 years 1 month


Licenses & certifications

ICA: Istio Certified Associate

Issued: Jan 2026

Certified by The Linux Foundation

PCA: Prometheus Certified Associate

Issued: Jan 2026

Certified by The Linux Foundation

LFCS: Linux Foundation Certified Systems Administrator

Issued: Jan 2026

Certified by The Linux Foundation

CCA: Cilium Certified Associate

Issued: Jan 2026

Certified by The Linux Foundation

OTCA: OpenTelemetry Certified Associate

Issued: Dec 2025

Certified by The Linux Foundation

KCA: Kyverno Certified Associate

Issued: Dec 2025

Certified by The Linux Foundation

CGOA: Certified GitOps Associate

Issued: Dec 2025

Certified by The Linux Foundation

CNPA: Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineering Associate

Issued: Dec 2025

Certified by The Linux Foundation

CBA: Certified Backstage Associate

Issued: Dec 2025

Certified by The Linux Foundation

CAPA: Certified Argo Project Associate

Issued: Dec 2025

Certified by The Linux Foundation

KCSA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate

Issued: Nov 2025

Certified by The Linux Foundation

KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate

Issued: Nov 2025

Certified by The Linux Foundation

CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

Issued: Nov 2025

Certified by The Linux Foundation

CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

Issued: Oct 2025

Certified by The Linux Foundation

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Issued: Oct 2025

Certified by The Linux Foundation

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