Platform Architect | Kubernetes-Native Infrastructure | Crossplane Contributor
I'm a platform engineer and open-source contributor specializing in cloud-agnostic, Kubernetes-native infrastructure, GitOps, and zero-touch provisioning (ZTP). I create tools that make infrastructure declarative, self-healing, and accessible.
| Project | Description | My Role |
|---|---|---|
| Netbird Crossplane Provider | A Crossplane provider that automates Netbird peer provisioning, network access policies, and environment-specific connectivity rules for zero-touch private mesh networks. | Creator & Code Owner |
| Mojaloop IaC Crossplane Packages | Reusable Crossplane compositions for provisioning infrastructure including AWS managed services, application and oidc configuration (argocd, gitlab, grafana, k8s, etc), netbird, bare-metal deployments of mongodb/mysql/postgres dbaas, etc. | Primary Contributor & Architect |
| Mojaloop IaC Modules | Infrastructure-as-Code modules for Kubernetes cluster provisioning and configuration management. | Lead Contributor |
| Mojaloop Ansible Collection | Ansible roles and collections for bootstrapping and managing infrastructure components. | Lead Contributor |
I believe infrastructure should be:
- Declarative – Describe what you want, not how to get it
- Self-healing – Continuously reconcile toward the desired state
- Composable – Build platforms from pluggable, reusable components
- Accessible – Open source tools that democratize cloud-native infrastructure
- Zero-Touch-Provisioned - Strive to automate all deployments, even the deployer itself
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Custom Crossplane Provider Development: Engineered a provider that treats network topology (Netbird peers, access policies, etc) as Kubernetes-native resources, enabling GitOps-driven mesh networking across geographically distributed clusters.
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Kubernetes-Native Control Plane: Architected a cloud-agnostic and k8s distro-agnostic control plane based on Ansible, Terraform, Crossplane, ArgoCD, Vault, Zitadel, GitLab and Netbird that provisions and manages downstream clusters across public cloud and private on-premises environments, eliminating manual intervention.
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Zero-Trust Networking: Combined Netbird (WireGuard), Istio Ambient Mesh and Cilium to create zero-trust network fabrics for financial services workloads.
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Private Cloud DBaaS: Designed Database-as-a-Service solutions using Cloud Native Percona operators, replicating public cloud consumption models entirely on-premises.
- "INFITX Builds Zero-Touch Kubernetes Networking with NetBird" - Learn how INFITX automated private networking across on-prem and AWS environments using NetBird, Kubernetes Operators, and Crossplane
- "Addressing the Challenges for Mojaloop On-Premise Deployments" – Technical deep-dive on infrastructure for financial inclusion
- KubeCon / Open Source Summit Presentation – Platform engineering for cross-border payments
- Panel Discussion: Infrastructure for Financial Inclusion – Managed and collaborated content
- LinkedIn: [https://linkedin.com/in/david-f-b39aa52]
- GitHub: You're already here!
- Email: david@klavel.com