Every once in a while I get a stage for the things I have to say… Here’s a list of my appearances.
AI Won’t Replace Your Platform Team (But It Will Change Their Job)
| Event: | Cloud Native Zürich |
| Date: | 11.06.2025 |
| Location: | Kino Abaton, Heinrichstrasse 269 · 8005 Zürich |
About the Talk:
Remember when deploying to Kubernetes meant hand-crafting YAML manifests line by line? Then build tools started generating them for us. Then AI came along and for a while, that just meant copying and pasting from ChatGPT.
We’ve come a long way. Today, you can deploy pods, troubleshoot clusters, and manage infrastructure through a natural conversation with no YAML required. But what does that actually mean for the people running Kubernetes day to day?
In this talk, I’ll trace the evolution of how we interact with Kubernetes from manual manifests to AI agents that understand your cluster. I’ll demo the open-source Kubernetes MCP Server and explain how the Model Context Protocol is becoming the bridge between AI tools and infrastructure. And I’ll look ahead to where this is going: autonomous agents that investigate incidents and propose fixes before you’ve even realized something was wrong.
This isn’t a talk about replacing platform engineers. It’s about how their role is evolving and why understanding your systems deeply matters more than ever.
Small Apps, Big Effect: Fast and Reliable Deployments on AWS ECS
| Event: | Containers on AWS Meetup |
| Date: | 18.11.2025 |
| Location: | Bluelion, Josefstrasse 219 · 8005 Zurich |
About the Talk:
Not every application needs Kubernetes. Tobias will show how Amazon ECS offers a simple, scalable, and cost-efficient way to run small or single-purpose apps — delivering fast deployments and reliable performance.
Manage Infrastructure Resources Using GitOps
| Event: | Containers on AWS Meetup |
| Date: | 13.05.2025 |
| Location: | Amazon Webservices Zürich, Marsstrasse 2 · 8002 Zürich |
About the Talk:
My colleague Dario Duff and I gave a presentation on managing infrastructure resources using GitOps at the Containers on AWS Meetup, hosted by copebit AG. We began with an overview of Kubernetes and GitOps to establish a common understanding, then demonstrated how AWS infrastructure can be managed using Crossplane. In a brief demo, we showcased how to define AWS resources within Helm Charts using Crossplane, highlighting a practical GitOps approach to infrastructure as code.