A global hospitality company needed to choose a container platform that would underpin its entire modernization strategy — microservices, CI/CD, observability, security. Standard vendor demos could not reveal day-2 operations reality at their scale, so I built four competing platforms and let the work decide.
Skills Applied
- Designed, built, and automated four competing Kubernetes platforms (OpenShift, EKS, GKE, Tanzu TAS) using Terraform — each evaluated through real workloads, not slide decks
- Led platform selection through a structured bake-off where engineering teams operated each environment hands-on
- Architected an aggregated logging platform ingesting 1TB daily from 2,000+ edge software instances
- Led the decomposition of a monolithic Java application into distributed microservices with a full CI/CD lifecycle
- Implemented Istio service mesh so QA could test release candidates directly in production using traffic routing and header-based tracing
- Integrated container security scanning into the CI/CD pipeline before any workload reached production
- Built training programs for development, operations, and security teams covering container operations and CI/CD workflows
Results
- 4 Kubernetes platforms evaluated through parallel hands-on proof — replacing a process that would have relied on vendor presentations and analyst quadrants
- 1TB daily log volume aggregated from 2,000+ edge instances into a single observability platform, up from fragmented per-site logging
- Monolith decomposed into production microservices with automated build, test, and deploy pipelines
- QA gained production-safe testing through service mesh traffic routing — eliminating the prior dependency on separate staging environments
If your platform decision is stuck in vendor demos and comparison spreadsheets, I can help you build the proof instead. Reach out at nocelion.com.