JuanJo Ciarlante
Research Scientist at Grafana Labs
Mendoza, Argentina
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RockstarJuanJo Ciarlante is a research scientist and seasoned SRE/platform engineer based in Mendoza, Argentina, with 16 years of experience building and hardening cloud-native infrastructure. He pairs academic work as an assistant professor with hands-on contributions to high-profile open-source Kubernetes projects like kops and Kubeless, where he improved CI/CD, testing, and cluster deployment workflows. His work spans EFK logging stacks, cert-manager upgrades, container-friendly JVM tuning, RBAC fixes and low-level Linux networking (he authored IP aliasing), reflecting both systems depth and production pragmatism. He also cares about developer ergonomics—contributing macOS Karabiner keyboard customizations—showing a rare blend of platform reliability focus and attention to everyday developer productivity.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (49)
kubernetes10
dockerce10
docker10
elasticsearch710
amazon-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch810
karabiner10
dev-ops10
terminal-application10
elasticsearchapi10
dockers10
kbar10
keyboardlayout10
keyboard10
elasticsearchquery10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-archive/kube-prod-runtime
Apr 2018 - Oct 2020
A standard infrastructure environment for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 136 commits, 88 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:JuanJo focused on setting up and configuring an EFK (Elasticsearch, Fluentd, Kibana) stack within a Kubernetes environment. Their work involved integrating Elasticsearch and Kibana, including adding JVM flags for container-friendly deployments. They templatized Fluentd configuration files, added external DNS configuration, and upgraded cert-manager. Additionally, the user made various fixes, addressed review comments, and updated dependencies within the infrastructure setup.
vmsdevopsansibleinfrastructurekubernetes
vmware-archive/kubeless
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Kubernetes Native Serverless Framework
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 11 PRs, 41 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:JuanJo's contributions primarily revolved around improving the testing and deployment infrastructure for the Kubeless project. They refactored tests to use the 'bats' testing framework, updated the CI/CD configuration in `.travis.yaml`, and implemented integration tests utilizing kubeadm-dind-cluster and minikube. The user also fixed RBAC roles and made adjustments to support the dind cluster. Their work aimed to streamline the testing process and ensure the project could be reliably deployed and tested in various environments.
golangserverlesskubelesskubernetesaws
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