Kirtis Bakalarczyk

I build and own infrastructure end-to-end — from provisioning and configuration to secrets management, PKI, DNS, and the CI/CD pipelines that keep it all moving. The stack is Terraform, Ansible, RKE2 Kubernetes, 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 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.