Firas Medini
Lead Site Reliability Engineer & Platform Architect • Berlin
Lead Site Reliability Engineer and Platform Architect with extensive experience designing resilient distributed systems, Kubernetes platforms, GitOps delivery pipelines, and scalable cloud infrastructure for high-throughput AI workloads (vLLM, Triton) and visual search services serving 100M+ assets.
Nominated team contributor for the Federal President’s Award for Technology and Innovation (Deutscher Zukunftspreis).
Focus & Core Competencies
- Cloud & Platforms: GCP, Bare-Metal, Kubernetes internals, Custom Go Controllers & Operators, Helm, FluxCD, Crossplane.
- Reliability Engineering: SLI/SLO definition, error budget governance, automated canary rollouts, chaos drills, blameless postmortems.
- Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Jaeger, Grafana.
- AI Infrastructure: Low-latency inference serving with vLLM and Triton, KEDA-driven custom metric autoscaling.
Connect
GitHub
github.com/mdnfiras
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/mdnfiras🌐
Languages
German B1 | English C1 | French C1 | Arabic Native