Kristof Torma

Platform engineer, technical lead

I build platforms and tooling for teams shipping on Kubernetes.

Platform engineering and internal tooling at Nokia.

Selected experience

What I spend my time on.

Mostly platform work, internal tools, and the parts of infrastructure that need to be reliable without becoming heavy.

March 2022 to present

DevOps Engineer

Nokia

Platform engineering, Kubernetes, and internal tooling for developer teams.

  • Built self-service tools that cut down manual platform requests.
  • Designed an internal API for creating Kubernetes clusters in AWS and Azure through Pulumi.
  • Helped shape the team's Kubernetes practice and day-to-day platform direction.
  • Reduced waste in AWS by cleaning up unused resources.

Outside work

Things I spend time on besides the day job.

LAN community

Ctrl-Alt-GG

A community project around LAN events, games, and the site that brings it together.

Visit Ctrl-Alt-GG

Strengths

Tools I keep reaching for.

This is the stack I work with most often right now.

Platforms

Kubernetes AWS Azure Pulumi Terraform Ansible

Automation

Python Flask Celery Internal APIs Self-service tooling

Delivery

GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins Delivery pipelines Docs that people can use

Infrastructure

Linux Networking Hyper-V KVM

Cut the repeat work

If something keeps landing in a queue, it probably wants tooling.

Keep it calm

Good platform work should feel boring in the best possible way.

Build for humans

The system matters, but the people using it matter more.

Education

Background.

Computer engineering at BME, with most of the interesting bits pulling toward systems and infrastructure.

February 2020 to January 2022

MSc, Computer Engineering

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

September 2016 to January 2020

BSc, Computer Engineering

Budapest University of Technology and Economics