Lead Software Engineer & Solutions Architect at Capgemini Technology Services (since 2016)
Helping major clients in transportation, education, luxury, and public sectors achieve Cloud Native transformation, DevOps maturity, and platform engineering excellence.
Currently working on designing an Internal Developer Platform, reducing hosting costs and accelerating delivery cycles.
- DevOps & Platform Engineering: CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code
- Cloud Native: Kubernetes, Azure, ArgoCD, Kargo
- Automation & Security: Dagger.io, Renovate, HashiCorp Vault
- Programming: Go (Golang), Python, Groovy, Bash
- Reduced hosting costs by 3x through the design of an Internal Developer Platform.
- Accelerated CI/CD integration by 20% with reusable GitLab components and Dagger modules.
- Migrated multiple artifact repositories to Artifactory, lowering maintenance overhead and improving artifact management.
- Enhanced Kubernetes security by implementing rootless BuildKit and hardening container builds.
- Implemented Renovate automation, moving from 3 updates/year to daily updates for OCI artifacts.
- Cut development time by 50% with a Go-based CLI for streamlining integration tasks.
- DevOps Leader β DevOps Institute (2022)
- Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) β Linux Foundation (2024)
- SAFe 5 Architect β Scaled Agile (2022)
- Connected Manager β Harvard Business School x Capgemini (2025)
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vmiko


