Available for consulting

Marouan Chakran Platform Engineering Consultant,
Kubernetes, Crossplane, SRE

I help teams adopt Kubernetes and cloud native platforms through platform engineering, Crossplane based infrastructure automation, GitOps workflows, and SRE practices. Remote, worldwide.

Remote, worldwide Kubernetes + Crossplane SRE and reliability
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marouan@consulting ~ kubectl whoami
$ cat /etc/engineer.yaml
apiVersion: engineer.io/v1
kind: PlatformEngineer
metadata:
  name: marouan-chakran
  location: Remote, worldwide
spec:
  role: "Platform Engineering Consultant"
  focus: "Kubernetes, Crossplane, SRE"
  status: Ready
// Services

What I Can Help With

Engagements typically focus on one of the following areas.

Internal Developer Platforms

Design and build self-service platforms that reduce cognitive load and accelerate delivery for your engineering teams.

Platform Engineering Golden Paths Self-Service

Crossplane Adoption

Implement Crossplane compositions, providers, and operating models for declarative infrastructure management at scale.

Compositions Providers XRDs

Cloud Migration

Plan and execute bare metal to cloud migrations with minimal disruption, including architecture design and workload modernization.

Multi-Cloud Architecture Lift & Shift

Containerization

Modernize legacy applications with containers and establish cloud native delivery patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and runtime best practices.

Docker CI/CD GitOps

Kubernetes & SRE

Kubernetes adoption, cluster design, security hardening, and reliability foundations with SLOs, observability, and incident readiness.

K8s SRE Observability
// Engagement Flow

How I work

1

Discovery

Short call and review of current stack, constraints, and desired outcomes.

2

Design

Target architecture, delivery roadmap, risks, and trade-offs aligned to your teams.

3

Delivery

Implementation and productionization with documentation, runbooks, and handover prep.

4

Enablement

Training, enablement, and next-step planning so teams can operate independently.

// Career Path

Professional Experience

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Instadeep LTD / BioNTech
Oct 2023 – Present

Internal Developer Platform architect focused on platform reliability, delivery workflows, and infrastructure automation.

  • Designed and operated multi cloud Kubernetes foundations supporting multiple teams
  • Standardized infrastructure and application delivery using GitOps workflows
  • Built Crossplane abstractions to reduce cognitive load and improve consistency
  • Delivered platform tooling to improve self-service and operational visibility
  • Improved reliability through SLO oriented operations and incident readiness

DevOps Engineer

Blocs & Compagnie
May 2022 – Oct 2023

Built observability platforms and operated multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure for production workloads.

  • Established metrics, logs, and traces platform with consistent dashboards and alerts
  • Implemented secrets management workflows and access controls with Vault
  • Operated Kubernetes delivery pipelines across cloud providers with CI/CD automation

Kubernetes Expert & Technical Referent

Société Générale
Nov 2021 – May 2022

Technical referent for Kubernetes foundations supporting critical financial services.

  • Maintained production Kubernetes platforms with reliability and governance focus
  • Established incident response practices and on-call readiness routines
  • Created runbooks and post-incident reviews to improve operational maturity

Deployment Engineer

Sagemcom
Sep 2019 – Aug 2021

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

  • Containerized legacy workloads and introduced modern delivery workflows
  • Designed Helm packaging and GitOps release patterns with ArgoCD
  • Managed on-prem infrastructure lifecycle and storage foundations
// Featured Work

Open Source & Personal Projects

⬡ Crossplane Provider

Provider MAAS

Problem: Bare-metal provisioning needed the same declarative workflows as cloud resources.
Approach: Built a Crossplane provider and compositions to expose MAAS resources as Kubernetes APIs.
Result: Consistent infrastructure requests and reusable abstractions for platform teams.

View Provider MAAS on GitHub →
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◎ Internal Platform

Platform build blueprint

Problem: Teams needed self-service infrastructure with guardrails and consistent delivery.
Approach: Defined platform building blocks, GitOps governance, and Crossplane abstractions.
Result: Faster onboarding and repeatable platform patterns across environments.

Discuss a platform build →
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📊 Observability

Multi tenant observability stack

Problem: Teams needed observability with isolation, secure access, and consistent SLOs.
Approach: Designed tenant-aware telemetry pipelines with strong identity and mTLS.
Result: Reliable dashboards, trusted telemetry, and clear operational ownership.

Discuss an observability roadmap →
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// Latest Writing

Crossplane Python Functions

Newest posts from the series. Read the full series on the blog.

Part 10 Building a Production Multi-Cloud Cluster Platform

Building a Production Multi-Cloud Cluster Platform

Putting the full platform together with everything learned in the series.

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Part 9 Importing Existing Infrastructure

Importing Existing Infrastructure

Bring in existing resources and evolve toward declarative management.

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Part 8 Building CI/CD Pipelines for Functions

Building CI/CD Pipelines for Functions

Automate testing and releases for Crossplane function development.

Read article
View full series
// Credentials

Certifications & Education

CKA

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

The Linux Foundation / CNCF

ID: LF-svrxqtbxri • Oct 2021

Verify CKA on Credly →

Computer Science Engineering

Sorbonne Paris-Nord

Sep 2017 – 2021
// Get in Touch

Let's Build Together

Happy to discuss platform engineering, Crossplane adoption, or infrastructure reliability challenges.

Typical response: 1-2 business days

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