Adrian Vale
Principal Architect · Kubernetes and platform engineering
Adrian Vale is the principal architect behind the NomadX consulting family. He has spent more than 20 years building and running production systems, from bare-metal Linux through cloud platforms to agentic AI, and holds 40+ professional certifications across AWS, Kubernetes, Red Hat and FinOps. He has taken platforms from first MVP to billions of transactions for a multi-brand enterprise operating in more than ten countries, and still scopes every engagement personally.
Focus at kubeqa
Adrian holds all three CNCF Kubernetes certifications and has run Kubernetes for platforms handling billions of transactions. He focuses on cluster security, GitOps delivery and the boring operational detail that keeps clusters up at 3am.
Relevant certifications: CKA · CKAD · CKS
How engagements work
Adrian scopes every engagement personally before any work starts. You get a direct conversation with the person designing the solution, not a sales handoff. Delivery is carried out by the practice team, with specialist reviewers brought in where a project calls for credentials outside their own.
Topics
- Kubernetes
- Kubernetes security
- GitOps
- Platform engineering
- MLOps on Kubernetes
- Multi-cloud
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