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I'm Daniel Ulisses. I build cloud platforms and like teaching people how they work.

I'm a cloud architect and DevOps engineer who enjoys the teaching part of the job as much as the building part. I've spent years designing cloud platforms on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, automating everything with Infrastructure as Code and running Kubernetes in production.

Lately I spend a lot of my time on AI engineering applied to operations: LLM-based agents that review infrastructure changes, help on-call engineers triage incidents and remove toil, with the same guardrails we'd apply to any engineer.

This site is where I keep my notes, my projects and a bit about me.

Focus areas

Cloud architecture

Landing zones, networking, identity and guardrails on AWS, Azure and GCP, designed so security and cost are built in from the start.

Platform & DevOps engineering

Kubernetes platforms, GitOps with Argo CD, CI/CD with short-lived credentials, observability and policy as code.

AI engineering for DevOps

LLMs and agents for IaC review, incident triage and runbook automation, plus the infrastructure to run them safely.

Teaching & mentoring

I like explaining things. Workshops, pairing and writing about Kubernetes, Terraform and GitOps are a big part of how I learn.

Skills

Cloud
AWSAzureGoogle Cloud
Containers & GitOps
KubernetesHelmArgo CDKustomizeDocker
Infrastructure as Code
TerraformOpenTofuCrossplane
CI/CD
GitHub ActionsGitLab CIAzure DevOps
Observability & policy
PrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryKyverno
AI engineering
LLM APIsAgentsMCPEvaluation harnesses
Languages
PythonGoBashTypeScript

How I like to work

Teach while building

The best platform is one the whole team understands. I pair, document and record walkthroughs as I go, so nobody depends on me to run what I built.

Everything as code

Infrastructure, policies, pipelines, dashboards. If it is not in Git and reviewed, it does not exist.

Boring technology first

Managed services and well-known CNCF projects before custom tooling. The most maintainable platform is the one your next hire already knows.

AI with guardrails

LLMs and agents are great teammates for operations, as long as they go through the same reviews, permissions and audit trails as everyone else.

Contact

Get in touch

Questions about a post, want to swap notes on platform engineering or AI tooling, or just want to say hi? My inbox is open, and I read everything myself.

No newsletters, no spam. Just a reply from me.