Rael Arnes
Principal Site Reliability Engineer - EMEA Region Lead at CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolRael Arnes is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently leading EMEA SRE efforts for Azure Red Hat OpenShift at Red Hat. He combines deep hands-on experience across Kubernetes, multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and API management with practical infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible and CI/CD pipelines. An active OSS contributor and Kubernetes advocate, he organizes Cloud Native Barcelona and teaches containerization and Kubernetes as a postgraduate lecturer at UPC. His background spans high-performance scientific computing to enterprise API platforms, giving him a knack for translating research-grade performance needs into production-grade reliability. Colleagues rely on him for incident leadership, platform design and mentoring, while his community work surfaces emerging cloud-native patterns back into production practices. Based in Barcelona, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic engineering and a long track record of shipping resilient systems at scale.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaBachelor Degree in Theoretical Physics Physics, Bachelor Degree in Theoretical Physics Physics at Universitat de Barcelona
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (200)
python10
python-telegram-bot10
terraform10
gcp10
telegram10
nlb10
cloud-native10
operator10
sendgrid10
kubernetes-cluster10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
prompt10
kubernetes-secrets10
helm10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
3scale-sre/soyuz
Apr 2020 - May 2025
Docker image to use as toolbox and base image for pipelines
Contributions:12 releases, 23 PRs, 79 pushes in 5 years 1 month
docker-imagetoolboxbase-imagedockercd
raelga/kubernetes-website
Mar 2019 - Mar 2025
Kubernetes website and documentation repo:
Contributions:4 PRs, 106 pushes, 33 branches in 6 years
kubernetes
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