role: Senior Platform & Infrastructure Engineer
platform: Amazon EKS · multi-tenant · 300-400 nodes · 250+ microservices
product: Nexus — a Frost & Sullivan Top-20 Global MDR
focus: [ kubernetes, ai-infrastructure, platform-engineering, cloud-security ]
lately: LLM inference at scale (vLLM · GPU · AWS Trainium & Inferentia)
agent-driven operations — ~70% of SRE toil, run by an AI operator
ask-me-about: [ k8s-at-scale, bare-metal-k8s, gitops, observability, zero-trust ]- 🚀 Sole platform engineer behind a multi-tenant EKS platform serving a Top-20 global MDR product.
- 🧭 I turn sprawling, manual infrastructure into self-service platforms teams actually rely on — zero-trust, fault-tolerant, self-healing.
- 🎖️ Golden Kubestronaut — every CNCF certification plus the Linux Foundation LFCS, held concurrently. One of only a few hundred worldwide.
- ✍️ I write up the hard parts — the trade-offs and the numbers I can defend → chrisjaimon.com/writeups
Every CNCF certification · HashiCorp · Red Hat & Linux Foundation · AWS · Microsoft Azure
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| 🏗️ Kubernetes on Bare Metal | A 15-part series on production bare-metal K8s — Talos, Cluster API, Metal3, Cilium. |
| 📄 The Death of the YAML Engineer | Building an internal developer platform that hides Kubernetes. |
| 🟦 When the Gap Is Huge, Leap | A blue-green Kubernetes upgrade — six versions in one jump. |
| 🧠 Multi-Model LLM Inference on EKS | Serving vLLM across three generations of silicon: Trainium, Inferentia, GPU. |
The fuller story — the projects, the trade-offs, and the numbers I can defend — is at chrisjaimon.com.
It has an AI concierge and an MCP server, so your agent can read it too.
It has an AI concierge and an MCP server, so your agent can read it too.