SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING

Kien
Nguyen

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

booting

Building resilient, cloud-native infrastructure for blockchain at scale. Kubernetes, GitOps, and observability at the core.

KN
NGUYEN
METRICS
9+
Years XP
SRE & DevOps
99.9%
Uptime
Across all nodes
50+
Blockchain Nodes
BTC, ETH, SOL
10
Open Source
48 stars
SCROLL
LedgerThalesClickHouseLibreChatLiteLLMBitcoinEthereumSolanan8nLangfuseDaytonaKubernetesArgoCDTerraformHelmDatadogPostgreSQLDockerTraefikCloudflareLedgerThalesClickHouseLibreChatLiteLLMBitcoinEthereumSolanan8nLangfuseDaytonaKubernetesArgoCDTerraformHelmDatadogPostgreSQLDockerTraefikCloudflareLedgerThalesClickHouseLibreChatLiteLLMBitcoinEthereumSolanan8nLangfuseDaytonaKubernetesArgoCDTerraformHelmDatadogPostgreSQLDockerTraefikCloudflare
01

Experience

From metro systems to blockchain infrastructure

2023 - PRESENTONLINE

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Ledger·Paris

Designing scalable cloud-native infrastructures for blockchain applications. Led PostgreSQL to CloudNative-PG migration with GitOps. Deploying blockchain nodes (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana). Designed supervalidator for Canton Network.

KubernetesArgoCDHelmTerraformAWSBlockchain
2022

Site Reliability Engineer

Thales - Air Traffic Management·Paris

Ensured successful deployment of applications and maintained system reliability in the Air Traffic Management sector.

SRESystem ReliabilityATM
2021

DevOps Engineer

Thales - Ground Transportation·Hanoi, Vietnam

Traveled to Hanoi during COVID to build the city's first Metro Line 3.

DevOpsCI/CDMetro
2017 - 2020

DevOps Engineer

Thales - Ground Transportation·Paris / Doha

Contributed to the Lusail-Doha Metro, one of the world's most advanced metro systems.

DevOpsCI/CDMetro Systems
SKILLS
PROFICIENCY
Kubernetes0%
Terraform / IaC0%
CI/CD & GitOps0%
Observability0%
Blockchain Infra0%
EDUCATION

ECE Paris

Engineering School

Computer Science, Big Data & Cybersecurity

02

AI Platform

End-to-end AI infrastructure deployed at Ledger

Designed and deployed a complete AI platform for developer productivity: RAG-powered chat, workflow automation, LLM observability, and on-demand dev environments.

10+AI Components
300+Daily Users
50K+Inferences/day
99.9%Uptime
USER LAYER
SSO
AUTOMATION
Spin up
CHATBOT
MCP
AI & KNOWLEDGE
RAG
Traces
DATA LAYER
SELECT A COMPONENT

Click any component to see details

10 services interconnected

STACK
KubernetesArgoCDHelmOktaLibreChatn8nDaytonaLangfusepgvectorMongoDBMCPRAG
REQUEST FLOW

User

Request

Okta

Auth

LibreChat

Chat

LLM

Inference

RAG

Context

pgvector

Embeddings

Langfuse

Trace

MY ROLE

Architecture & Design

Designed the full platform architecture, from LLM routing to RAG pipeline to observability. Selected and evaluated each component for enterprise readiness.

GitOps Deployment

Deployed all 10+ services on Kubernetes via ArgoCD + Helm. Infrastructure as Code with Terraform. Zero-downtime updates via progressive rollouts.

Observability & Ops

Built the observability layer with Langfuse for LLM tracing, Datadog for infra, and custom dashboards. On-call for the full AI stack.

04

Photography

Landscape & astrophotography from around the world

GEAR

Sony Alpha 7 IV

Body / 33MP Full Frame

FE 24-50mm f/2.8 G

Wide / Landscape & Astro

FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM II

Tele / Wildlife & Compression

STATS
11

Albums

7

Countries

81

Photos

FEATURED SHOTS
Les Pyrénées, France.
Lofoten, Norway.
Nouvelle Zélande.
Vitznau, Suisse.
Mountains

Les Pyrénées, France.

VIEW ALBUM
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Infrastructure

Self-hosted, GitOps-driven, fully automated

STACK

Orchestration

KubernetesArgoCDHelmTraefikDocker

Observability

DatadogPrometheusGrafanaUptime Kuma

Secrets & IaC

TerraformInfisicalVaultGitOps
PIPELINE
📝

Git Push

Code to GitHub

⚙️

CI

Build & lint

🐳

Docker

Multi-stage

🔄

ArgoCD

GitOps sync

☸️

K8s

Production

06

Contact

Let's talk infrastructure, AI, or landscape photography.

Best way to reach me is LinkedIn DM.

PASSIONS
📸

Photography

Sony A7IV

🎹

Piano

9 years

🚴

Cycling

Road & Gravel

🎾

Tennis

Competitor

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