// platform engineer · sofia, bulgaria

Hristo Hristov

Platform Engineer. Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy at Project Capsule. Making shared clusters safe, scalable and boring.

I make Kubernetes safe to share. Maintainer of Project Capsule, Kubestronaut, and CNCF community contributor working at the intersection of multi-tenancy, cluster security, and platform reliability.

Psst… click me. Fast. I'm a fire god - making clusters "boring" is the day job. Setting things ablaze is the hobby. 🔥
Svarog emblem - Hristo Hristov's avatar

# What I work on

The hard part of platform engineering: letting many teams share infrastructure without stepping on each other or breaking isolation.

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Multi-Tenancy

Turning single clusters into safe, self-service platforms for many teams - the core problem Project Capsule solves.

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Cluster Security

Policy, isolation, and least-privilege by default. Backed by CKS and KCSA.

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Platform Reliability

Scalable, boring-in-a-good-way infrastructure that teams can actually trust.

# Experience

A decade-plus from Linux operations to cloud-native platform engineering.

  1. Staff Cloud Engineer

    Tide

    Dec 2025 - Present · Sofia, Bulgaria · Remote

    Building cloud-native platform infrastructure in Go for a global business-banking platform - ArgoCD, Kubernetes, and the tooling that keeps its clusters reliable.

  2. Technology Lead

    Vaerolabs

    Jun 2024 - Sep 2025 · Sofia, Bulgaria

    Led design and delivery of cloud-native applications and infrastructure on OpenShift, ArgoCD, and AWX, with a focus on high availability, security, and performance.

  3. Site Reliability Engineer

    VMware

    Apr 2022 - Feb 2024 · Sofia, Bulgaria · Hybrid

    Owned ArgoCD/Kubernetes deployments and enterprise CI/CD across VMware private cloud and AWS (including FedRAMP), holding a 99.99% SLA. Doubled as Scrum Master.

  4. Technology Team Lead

    DXC Technology

    Jan 2018 - Apr 2022 · Sofia, Bulgaria

    Drove Linux automation (SaltStack, SUSE Manager) across a 50+ engineer organization, reaching 100% patch compliance and cutting operational overhead by ~20%.

  5. Senior Linux / SRE / NOC roles

    Miss Hosting · FFW · Zertios

    2015 - 2018 · Bulgaria

    Ran large-scale Linux infrastructure, automation, and high-availability hosting environments across thousands of physical and virtual servers.

Full history on LinkedIn ↗

# Open Source

I build in the open. Maintainer and contributor across the cloud-native ecosystem.

A CNCF Sandbox operator that brings native multi-tenancy to Kubernetes - letting platform teams host many isolated tenants on shared clusters with strong guardrails around namespaces, network policies, RBAC and quotas.

# Speaking

Making multi-tenancy and cluster security approachable - on stage.

📣 Want me to speak at your event or meetup? me@hhristov.info

# Certifications

Kubestronaut - earned the full stack of CNCF Kubernetes certifications.

# Current Mood

What's fueling the commits right now, piped straight from Spotify. No skips, no shame.

Consulting the gods of shuffle...

# Off the Clock

When the clusters are green, the grind is on. Public Steam stats, zero shame.

114 Steam levelhigher than my on-call stress
346Games owned~340 more than I have time for
2,159Achievements100% patch-compliance energy
15Perfect gamesclosed every ticket, twice

Recently grinding

  • Path of Exile 2128 h
  • Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap67 h
  • Where Winds Meet38 h

128 hours into Path of Exile 2 and it still restarts less than a CrashLoopBackOff. Full profile ↗

# Get in touch

Open to speaking invitations, open-source collaboration, and conversations about platform engineering.