Available for new platform engagements
Valbjon Dako · Platform / Cloud Engineer

Cloud Platforms That Don’t Wake You Up at 3 a.m.

I design, build, and operate cloud-native platforms that keep your applications online and your engineers shipping. From greenfield Kubernetes clusters to modernizing legacy infrastructure, I help teams move faster with confidence.

  • Production-grade Kubernetes & container platforms
  • End-to-end CI/CD with GitOps & automated rollbacks
  • Security, observability & SRE best practices baked-in
8+ years platform experience
50+ teams enabled in production
99.99% uptime targets met
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Valbjon Dako

Platform & Cloud Engineer

📧 valbjon.dako@gmail.com
📞 +49 176 63665032
📍 Koblenz, Germany
Kubernetes & OpenShift CI/CD & Automation Security & DevSecOps Cloud (Azure, AWS, etc)

My Expertise

End-to-end platform engineering: from infrastructure and delivery pipelines to security, observability, automation, and reliability.

Cloud Infrastructure

Architect and manage multi-cloud and hybrid environments with AWS, Azure, and GCP. Design secure, scalable foundations for your applications.

AWS Azure GCP VPC / Networking

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

Codify your infrastructure so it’s repeatable, reviewable, and version-controlled. From greenfield builds to refactoring existing setups into IaC.

Terraform Terragrunt Pulumi Ansible

Kubernetes & Container Platforms

Design and operate Kubernetes clusters at scale with sane defaults, secure multi-tenancy, and developer-friendly workflows.

Kubernetes Docker Helm Istio

CI/CD & GitOps

Build automated deployment pipelines with quality gates, security scanning, and progressive delivery to ship faster with less risk.

GitLab CI GitHub Actions Argo CD Tekton

Cloud Security & Vulnerability Management

Bake security into the platform: container image scanning, SBOMs, policy enforcement, and automated remediation across your stack.

Trivy Grype Snyk OPA / Gatekeeper

& Monitoring

End-to-end visibility with metrics, logs, and traces so you can spot incidents early and fix them fast, before customers notice.

Prometheus Grafana Loki Jaeger / OpenTelemetry

Selected Projects

Concrete examples of platform, cloud, IaC and DevOps work I’ve delivered in production environments.

Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Platform for Fintech

Designed and implemented a secure, multi-tenant Kubernetes platform across two regions with GitOps-driven delivery, centralized observability, and self-service onboarding for teams.

  • Stack: EKS, Terraform, Argo CD, Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
  • Outcome: 4× faster deployments, 99.99% uptime, major reduction in manual ops work.

Container Security & Vulnerability Management

Built a security pipeline for container images integrated into CI/CD, with policy gates, SBOM generation and runtime alerting integrated into the platform.

  • Stack: Trivy, Snyk, GitLab CI, OPA Gatekeeper, Kubernetes
  • Outcome: 90% reduction in critical CVEs in production within three months.

IaC Automation for Enterprise Cloud Migration

Migrated legacy workloads to the cloud using fully automated, reusable Infrastructure as Code modules with environment-specific configurations and safe rollout strategies.

  • Stack: Terraform, Terragrunt, AWS, Ansible, GitHub Actions
  • Outcome: Consistent environments, shorter provisioning times, and fewer drift issues.

About Me

As a platform engineer with over 8 years of experience, I specialize in creating robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure that enables development teams to innovate quickly.

My approach combines deep technical expertise with a focus on operational excellence. I believe that the best platforms are those that are invisible to developers – handling complexity so they can focus on building great products.

I've helped organizations of all sizes transform their infrastructure, from startups scaling rapidly to enterprises modernizing legacy systems.

50+
Projects Delivered
99.99%
Platform Uptime
40%
Faster Deployments
Valbjon Dako

Curriculum Vitae

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Get In Touch

Have a project in mind or need consultation? Let's discuss how I can help your team.

Let's Collaborate

I'm currently available for new projects and consulting engagements. Whether you need help with cloud migration, Kubernetes implementation, CI/CD, security, observability, or IaC automation, I'm ready to help.

valbjon.dako@gmail.com
Koblenz, RLP
+4917663665032