Platform Engineering
Kubernetes platforms on European clouds, stood up as code from day one — private networking, secrets, backups and restores that are actually tested.
IT Consulting · Leipzig, Germany
Platform engineering for regulated environments.
Kubernetes, GitOps and PostgreSQL for teams that run in ISO 27001-certified environments — from the first commit to day-two operations, on European clouds.
Michael RaeckFounder · Platform engineer · Speaker
01 Services
What we do.
Four disciplines, one goal: platforms that pass the audit and survive day two.
GitOps & Compliance
ArgoCD ApplicationSets and Kyverno policies that turn ISO 27001 requirements into guardrails — and new resources into fully provisioned ones, automatically.
PostgreSQL on Kubernetes
CloudNativePG in production: object-store backups, point-in-time recovery, in-place major upgrades and replica clusters for disaster recovery.
Cloud Cost
Price and storage benchmarks across 30+ European cloud and Kubernetes providers — so your platform runs where it makes sense, not where it's habit.
02 Founder
Who you'll work with.
“I build the product and the platform it runs on — from the first commit to production operations.”
CTO at Paladyn and Woonzorgweb.be, independent platform engineer. Vantralis brings the setup I ran in regulated healthcare infrastructure — Kubernetes, GitOps and PostgreSQL that hold up under ISO 27001 audit — to teams that need it to just work.
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Now
Paladyn CTO · since Mar 2026 · Brussels, remote
Paladyn acquires successful, established businesses and leads them into their next chapter — while honouring the values that made them thrive. As CTO, I make sure technology is never the bottleneck, but the catalyst.
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Woonzorgweb.be CTO · since Mar 2026
Belgium's leading platform connecting seniors and their families with trustworthy senior living, with around 150k users a month. Leading its technical transformation from legacy Drupal to Laravel and Filament, on a Kubernetes platform stood up on day one: OVHcloud, CloudNativePG, ArgoCD, External Secrets, Velero.
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2024 – 2026
DKMS Group Senior System Administrator · Linux / Kubernetes
One of the world's largest stem cell donor registries — where infrastructure isn't just code, it saves lives. Built and operated the platform behind DKMS's engineering teams in a highly regulated, ISO 27001 healthcare environment: multi-cluster Kubernetes, ArgoCD ApplicationSets, CNPG, Kyverno, Velero, Renovate. Kyverno generate rules turned a new database CR into bucket, credentials and backup schedule automatically — across a hundred-plus databases.
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2023 – 2024
SDA SE Open Industry Solutions Technical Product Owner · Hamburg
Product owner for a team of five cloud architects building in-house and customer infrastructure with Terraform on AWS and GCP — plus proprietary product development, contract negotiations and partner management.
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2019 – 2023
1337 UGC Lead Developer · Leipzig
Led development of a multi-site crossword platform built on Laravel — puzzles, solutions and clues — and scaled crosswordsolver.com to 1.5M monthly users on GCP clusters.
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Earlier
Mucona Media Founder
Founded and exited.
Speaking 02
Talk ContainerDays Hamburg · September 2026 · 30 min
Running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes in ProductionDay 2 Operations with CloudNativePG
Everything that happens after the first kubectl apply: backups to an object store, point-in-time recovery, an in-place major upgrade from 17 to 18, and a replica cluster for disaster recovery. Five demos, all recorded against a local kind cluster and reproducible from the repo.
Workshop MAD Summit Berlin · 2023
Verwaltung der Infrastruktur via IaC am Beispiel von Terraform und AWSInfrastructure as code with Terraform on AWS
A hands-on introduction to infrastructure as code: from Terraform setup and AWS credentials to VPCs and EC2 instances — then community modules, workspaces per environment, shared state in remote backends and automation via CI/CD.
03 Projects
What we build.
Products we design, build and run ourselves — and the open-source groundwork behind them.
Products 03
- P—01 eucloudcost.com Price comparison for 30+ European cloud & Kubernetes providers, with real storage benchmarks
- P—02 glowfind.de K-beauty price comparison
- P—03 codeutils.de Developer utilities
Open source github.com/mixxor
mixxor/eu-cloud-prices
dataset
The open data behind eucloudcost.com: VPS and managed Kubernetes pricing across 30+ European providers, kept current by a weekly bot that opens schema-validated PRs per provider.
mixxor/opentofu-kubernetes-ovhcloud
opentofu
Reference setup for managed Kubernetes on OVHcloud: private vRack networking, ArgoCD, Velero, API IP restrictions. Siblings for Exoscale and Infomaniak.
mixxor/hetzner-talos
talos
Talos Linux Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud, with a worked example.
The baseline every cluster gets before a workload does, as ArgoCD ApplicationSets.
04 Contact
Let's talk.
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