Rael Arnes
Principal Site Reliability Engineer - EMEA Region Lead at Red Hat
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)
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k8s10
operator10
api10
jsonnet10
redhat10
dokku10
amazon10
aws-secrets-manager10
terraform-provider10
blackbox10
terraform10
argocd10
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
raelga/kubernetes-website
Mar 2019 - Mar 2025
Kubernetes website and documentation repo:
Contributions:4 PRs, 106 pushes, 33 branches in 6 years
kubernetes
3scale-sre/tf-aws-guardduty
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Terraform module to configure aws guardduty
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 push in 3 years 11 months
terraform-modulesconfigureterraformawsterraform-module
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