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Marouan Chakran Building the Platform
that builds platforms

CKA-certified Platform Engineer with 5+ years of experience architecting Internal Developer Platforms, automating multi-cloud infrastructure, and designing high-availability distributed systems. Passionate about GitOps maturity and operational excellence.

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marouan@platform ~ kubectl whoami
$ cat /etc/engineer.yaml
apiVersion: engineer.io/v1
kind: PlatformEngineer
metadata:
  name: marouan-chakran
  location: France
spec:
  role: "Sr. Platform Engineer & SRE"
  company: "InstaDeep/BioNTech"
  certified: [CKA]
  status: Ready
// Tech Stack

Platform Engineering Expertise

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Kubernetes & Orchestration

Deep expertise in Kubernetes operations, custom controllers, and operator patterns for production workloads at scale.

Kubernetes Helm Kustomize Rancher Istio Linkerd
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Crossplane & IaC

Building universal control planes with Crossplane compositions and custom providers. Infrastructure as code at the Kubernetes level.

Crossplane Compositions Providers Terraform
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GitOps & CI/CD

Implementing declarative infrastructure workflows with FluxCD and ArgoCD. Continuous delivery for cloud-native applications.

FluxCD ArgoCD GitHub Actions GitOps
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Multi-Cloud Infrastructure

Managing infrastructure across GCP, AWS, Azure and on-premises with unified control planes and consistent abstractions.

GCP/GKE AWS/EKS Azure/AKS Ansible VMware Proxmox
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Observability & SRE

Building comprehensive monitoring stacks with the LGTM stack. Implementing SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and toil reduction strategies.

Prometheus Mimir Grafana Loki Tempo OpenTelemetry
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Platform Security

Implementing mTLS, Workload Identity, and zero-trust networking patterns for secure service communication.

HashiCorp Vault mTLS Workload Identity OIDC/OAuth RBAC
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Development

Building custom tooling and operators to bridge infrastructure complexity with developer experience.

Python Kopf FastAPI Golang TypeScript Next.js
// Career Path

Professional Experience

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Instadeep LTD / BioNTech, Paris
Oct 2023 – Present

Internal Developer Platform (IdP) Architect designing comprehensive platform ecosystems to unify infrastructure management across teams.

  • Built custom Python-based Crossplane function for dynamic multi-cloud composition (GKE, EKS, AKS)
  • Developed Crossplane Provider for MaaS enabling bare-metal provisioning via unified control plane
  • Architected centralized Flux CD GitOps control plane with multi-environment isolation
  • Built full-stack platform dashboard (Next.js, FastAPI) with cost-allocation integration
  • Engineered multi-tenant observability stack (Mimir, Loki, Grafana) with mTLS security

DevOps Engineer

Blocs & Compagnie, Paris
May 2022 – Oct 2023

Built observability platforms and managed multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure for Web3 solutions.

  • Built comprehensive observability platform using LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir)
  • Implemented HashiCorp Vault for centralized secrets management
  • Operated clusters across AWS EKS, Azure AKS, and OVH with GitLab CI/CD automation

Kubernetes Expert & Technical Referent

Société Générale, Val de Fontenay
Nov 2021 – May 2022

Technical referent for Kubernetes infrastructure supporting critical financial services.

  • Maintained 20+ HA Kubernetes clusters for critical financial services
  • Participated in 24/7 on-call rotations with standardized incident response
  • Created detailed runbooks and post-mortem documentation

Deployment Engineer

Sagemcom, Rueil-Malmaison
Sep 2019 – Aug 2021

Led containerization initiatives and early GitOps adoption for legacy application modernization.

  • Led migration of legacy Java applications to containerized microservices
  • Designed Helm charts and implemented early GitOps workflows with ArgoCD
  • Managed on-premise infrastructure including VMware vSphere and Rook/Ceph storage
// Featured Work

Open Source & Personal Projects

⬡ Crossplane Provider

Provider MAAS

A comprehensive Crossplane provider for Canonical MAAS (Metal as a Service). Enables declarative bare-metal infrastructure management through Kubernetes-native resources. Built with Python function compositions for maximum flexibility.

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◎ Internal Platform

IdP Control Plane

Internal Developer Platform control plane built on Crossplane. Provides self-service infrastructure provisioning through a unified API, abstracting multi-cloud complexity for development teams.

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🏠 Home Lab

HA Kubernetes Homelab

High-availability Kubernetes cluster running on Proxmox VE bare-metal servers. Features Rook/Ceph distributed storage, ArgoCD GitOps pipelines, and Zero-Trust network architecture using WireGuard, Netbird, and Tailscale.

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// Credentials

Certifications & Education

CKA

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

The Linux Foundation / CNCF

ID: LF-svrxqtbxri • Oct 2021

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Computer Science Engineering

Sorbonne Paris-Nord, Villetaneuse

Sep 2017 – 2021

// Get in Touch

Let's Build Together

Open to discussing platform engineering, Crossplane implementations, or interesting infrastructure challenges.

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