Binh QL

A Senior DevOps Engineer practicing sociotechnical DevOps in practice - from bare-metal clusters to cloud-native platforms. He tries to build systems that scale, support teams in shipping better, and share what he picks up along the way.

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Who he is

Engineering with
intent & depth

A DevOps engineer based in Ho Chi Minh City, obsessed with the intersection of infrastructure reliability, developer experience, and the craft of building things that last.

His work spans enterprise platforms at a global IT services firm and independent consulting engagements across studios, agencies, and tech-driven teams. He believes great engineering is as much about people and systems as it is about code.

5+
Years in DevOps
∞
Clusters debugged
AWS
Certified
0→1
Concept to production
Tech stack

What he works with

His stack is built around Kubernetes-first infrastructure, GitOps, and cloud-native observability — working across the full DevOps surface from CI/CD pipeline design to SRE practices and platform engineering.

Kubernetes Kubernetes
Helm Helm
AWS AWS
ArgoCD ArgoCD
Terraform Terraform
Ansible Ansible
Prometheus Prometheus
Grafana Grafana
GitHub Actions GitHub Actions
GitLab CI GitLab CI
Docker Docker
Python Python
Keycloak Keycloak
Jenkins Jenkins
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
Rancher Rancher
Linux Linux
Ubuntu Ubuntu
OpenTelemetry OpenTelemetry
MongoDB MongoDB
Elasticsearch Elasticsearch
Redis Redis
Nginx Nginx
Traefik Traefik
Go Go
Worked with
Hitachi
Sawaco
Zectier
Cyber Frog Studio
✦
Hitachi
Sawaco
Zectier
Cyber Frog Studio
✦
Hitachi
Sawaco
Zectier
Cyber Frog Studio
✦
What he does

Building systems.
Consulting teams.

Platform Engineering

Cloud-native infrastructure from scratch — Kubernetes clusters, GitOps pipelines, IaC with Terraform, and zero-downtime reliability at scale.

Infrastructure Consulting

Architecture reviews, system diagnostics, incident analysis, and migration strategy — bridging technical depth with business outcomes.

AI Systems Integration

Embedding AI into production workflows — chatbots, voice interfaces, automation pipelines, and self-hosted LLM infrastructure on Kubernetes.

Selected Work
01

Enterprise Kubernetes Platform

Multi-cluster GitOps infrastructure with automated certificate management, zero-downtime deployments, and full observability for distributed enterprise teams.

KubernetesArgoCDTerraformAWS
02

AI Voice & Chat Platform

Stateful AI assistant with NLP and a voice interface layer — self-hosted on k3s with an n8n automation backend serving real users at scale.

n8nk3sElevenLabsLLM
03

Zero-Trust Remote Infrastructure

Secure overlay network for a distributed team — Tailscale mesh, Hyper-V virtualization, and cross-site NFS/SMB file sharing with zero public exposure.

TailscaleHyper-VUbuntuNFS/SMB
04

CI/CD Pipeline Modernization

End-to-end delivery pipelines with multi-environment promotion, Helm-based releases, and GitLab CI/CD integration across a microservices architecture.

GitLab CIHelmDockerKubernetes
Approach

How he thinks about the work

01

Reliability is a feature

Systems should fail predictably, recover gracefully, and surprise no one. Boring infrastructure is good infrastructure — and getting there takes deliberate, unglamorous work.

02

Beyond the YAML

Great DevOps work isn't measured in lines of config. It's measured in incidents avoided, developers unblocked, and the quiet absence of 3am pages.

03

Compounding craft

Every cluster, every pipeline, every postmortem is practice. Skill comes from reps and reflection — not shortcuts. He invests in the long arc of getting better.

04

The modern engineer

Technical depth alone is no longer enough. Writing, consulting, leadership — engineering today is multi-dimensional, and he builds in every direction with intent.

Get in touch

Let's build something together

Open to consulting engagements, advisory conversations, and collaborations on platform engineering, SRE, and modern infrastructure. Based in Ho Chi Minh City — working globally.

Email hello@binhql.com
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