Kirtis Bakalarczyk

I build and own infrastructure end-to-end — from provisioning and configuration to secrets management, PKI, DNS, observability, and the CI/CD pipelines that keep it all moving. Day to day that means a fleet of virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters spanning on-premises data centers and Azure, driven by Terraform, Ansible, Flux, and GitLab CI, with OpenBao handling certificates and secrets across the board.

I’ve spent the better part of a decade moving from hands-on systems administration toward treating infrastructure as software: version-controlled, testable, and reproducible. The principles I hold to — no static credentials, every artifact signed and verified, every dependency mirrored internally, Git as the authoritative source for everything — aren’t process for its own sake. They’re what makes a production environment something you can reason about and hand off.