About

I’m Paolo Carta, a freelance Kubernetes consultant, DevOps engineer and Trainer. I’ve spent the past several years helping engineering teams move faster without breaking things, designing container infrastructure, automating delivery pipelines, and building the internal tooling that removes toil from developers’ daily lives. Moreover I trained several teams to use effectively Kubernetes clusters and containers.

I work with startups scaling their first production Kubernetes clusters, and with larger organisations untangling years of manual, fragile infrastructure. In both cases, the goal is the same: reliable systems that teams understand and trust.

Background

Before going independent, I worked across backend engineering and infrastructure roles, which means I can have honest conversations with both the application developers and the platform teams. I’m comfortable reading Go, YAML, shell scripts, writing Terraform modules, and debugging production incidents.

Technical focus areas

• Kubernetes — EKS, GKE, and on-premises clusters
• GitOps — Argo CD, Flux
• CI/CD — GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins
• Infrastructure as Code — Terraform, Pulumi, Config Connector
• Observability — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, Datadog
• Security — RBAC, network policies, secrets management (Vault, External Secrets)
• Platform engineering — Backstage, internal developer portals

How I work

I take on a small number of clients at a time so I can be genuinely useful — not just a body filling a ticket queue. Engagements typically start with a short discovery phase to understand your infrastructure, your team’s pain points, and where you actually need help. From there we agree on a scope and work iteratively.

If you’d like to explore working together, get in touch.