Hi, I'm George Vella

I build and operate cloud platforms for high-scale products.

Head of Infrastructure, focused on multi-tenant Kubernetes and AWS platforms for iGaming and payments workloads.

What I Do

• Architect and run production cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Lead platform engineering and DevOps teams
• Build reliable Kubernetes platforms with GitOps workflows
• Improve performance, reliability, and cost efficiency

Highlights

• 18+ years in software and infrastructure engineering
• 7+ years focused on cloud platform architecture and operations
• Nearly 8 years in email security, building email scanning and management systems
• Operated 150+ node Kubernetes environments supporting 50+ microservices
• Led cloud optimization initiatives reducing monthly spend by ~30%

Tech I Work With

• Cloud: AWS (EKS, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, Redshift, WAF)
• Platform: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Terraform, Terragrunt, GitHub Actions
• Observability: Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, PagerDuty
• Data/Messaging: Kafka, NATS, PostgreSQL, MariaDB
• Languages: C#, C++, .NET, Go, Bash, Python, TypeScript

Connect

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/georgevella
• Email: mail@georgevella.com