Cloud & Platform Engineering

Consulting for teams who run
serious infrastructure.

esTEAM8 (/ˈes.tə.meɪt/) — independent cloud and platform engineering consulting across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. I help teams design, migrate and operate reliable, secure platforms.

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One consultant, every major cloud

Vendor-neutral advice, hands-on delivery on the platform you run.

Google Cloud

GKE, VPC design, IAM and platform engineering on GCP.

Microsoft Azure

AKS, networking, identity (Entra ID) and enterprise landing zones.

AWS

Landing zones, IAM, EKS, cost optimisation and well-architected reviews.

Core expertise

End-to-end platform capability, from architecture to 3am pages.

Kubernetes

Cluster architecture, GitOps, scaling, upgrades and hardening for production workloads.

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and developer platform enablement.

Security

Cloud security posture, IAM least-privilege, secrets management and compliance readiness.

Networking

VPC/VNet design, hybrid connectivity, load balancing and zero-trust network architecture.

SRE

SLOs/SLIs, observability, incident response and reliability engineering practices.

Software Engineering

Backend systems, automation tooling and pragmatic software delivery.

Tomasz Rarok

Why work with me

  • 10+ years across the SDLC — from Java/Spring Boot engineering to Site Reliability Engineering and Cloud Architecture.
  • Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect, with production Kubernetes, GitOps and IaC experience at scale.
  • Hands-on delivery, not just slide decks — I design, build and carry the pager.
  • Vendor-neutral advice — deep cloud-native roots, applied across AWS, Azure and GCP.

I'm Tomasz, a Dresden-based, Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect with 10+ years across the full software delivery lifecycle — from backend engineering in Java and Spring Boot to running production Kubernetes platforms as a Site Reliability Engineer. I've standardized observability (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Jaeger), led incident response, and built GitOps-driven infrastructure with Pulumi and Flux for platforms supporting multiple engineering teams. I bring that same production-grade rigor to independent consulting — helping teams design, migrate and operate reliably across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

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Have a cloud, Kubernetes or DevOps challenge? Reach out.