Chief Product Officer @ cidaas & cnips | DevOps / Platform Engineer | Kubernetes | Go
My career blends deep technical expertise with strategic product leadership. With a hands-on foundation in engineering and architecture, I lead the creation and scaling of innovative, customer-centric platforms — today as Chief Product Officer for cidaas, the European Cloud Identity & Access Management platform, and cnips, a cloud-native Integration-Platform-as-a-Service.
I have a proven track record running identity and integration platforms at scale on Kubernetes — leading large-scale adoption of cloud-native microservices architectures and the platform engineering behind them. I'm a long-time contributor to the cloud-native open-source ecosystem (Bitnami charts, MongoDB Kubernetes Operator, Fluent Operator, Kubespray), and I bring that same open, community-driven mindset to building cidaas and cnips.
| Product | What it is |
|---|---|
| cidaas | The European Cloud Identity & Access Management platform — CIAM, Workforce IAM, SSO, MFA, and digital identity verification |
| cnips | Cloud-native Integration-Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) — connect any application and data source with a low-/no-code editor |
Large-scale microservices adoption on Kubernetes: cluster lifecycle (Kubespray), operators (MongoDB, Spark, Flink, Fluent Bit), storage orchestration (Rook), ingress (Traefik, NGINX, Contour), and certificate automation (cert-manager).
MongoDB — Expert Level: long-time contributor to the Bitnami MongoDB Helm chart (authored hidden-node support, custom CA support, external-access fixes) and the MongoDB Community Kubernetes Operator.
| Project | Contribution | Status | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| kubernetes-sigs/kubespray | #11106 Add support for Cilium 1.15 | ✅ Merged | Apr 2024 |
| bitnami/containers | #28688 [mongodb] Disable voting rights for hidden nodes | ✅ Merged | Apr 2023 |
| bitnami/containers | #26832 [redis] Hostname announcement in cluster setup | ✅ Merged | Mar 2023 |
| fluent/fluent-operator | #195 Secret option for Fluent Bit Helm chart | ✅ Merged | Feb 2022 |
| bitnami/charts | #8515 [mongodb] Fix NodePort external access | ✅ Merged | Jan 2022 |
| fluent/fluent-operator | #94 imagePullSecrets for Fluent Bit DaemonSet | ✅ Merged | Jul 2021 |
| bitnami/charts | #5505 [mongodb] Hidden node support (+ 6 follow-up fixes) | ✅ Merged | Mar 2021 |
| bitnami/charts | #4690 [mongodb] Custom CA support | ✅ Merged | Dec 2020 |
| mongodb/mongodb-kubernetes-operator | #181 CLUSTER_DNS_NAME for custom headless services | ✅ Merged | Sep 2020 |
| traefik/traefik | #12048 Support ServiceExternalTrafficPolicy Local | 🔄 Open | Sep 2025 |
| projectcontour/contour | #5586 Custom headers at HTTPProxy level | ⏹️ Closed | Jul 2023 |
- srelens — Fast, lightweight Kubernetes IDE built with Tauri v2 and a pure-Rust core; every capability doubles as an MCP tool for AI agents
- mqlens-mongodb — Free, native MongoDB GUI: every auth mode, TLS/SSH/proxy, aggregation + explain plans, schema analysis, embedded mongosh, AI query assistant
- kiac — Local Kubernetes on Apple's container framework — every node is its own lightweight VM, with metrics, storage, and LoadBalancer included
- cert-manager-webhook-dode — cert-manager ACME DNS01 webhook solver
- 📦 Define and drive product strategy and roadmap for cidaas and cnips, bridging engineering and market
- 🏗️ Architect resilient, event-driven platforms with Kafka, Spark, and Akka for real-time insights
- ☸️ Lead large-scale microservices adoption orchestrated through Kubernetes and Docker
- 📊 Build scalable analytics pipelines (Snowflake, Delta Lake, Redshift, dbt, Airflow) that power intelligent, insight-driven features
- 🤝 Lead high-performing engineering and product teams toward impactful outcomes
- 🌍 Contribute to the cloud-native open-source ecosystem
Avid traveler and cultural explorer, devoted foodie always hunting new cuisines — and when it's game time, you'll find me passionately cheering for my favorite cricket teams 🏏
