GitLab CI/CD for Kubernetes: A Production-Ready Pipeline You Can Trust
The four things that break in production and the pipeline that survives them.
Hey, I'm Pablo del Arco
AI Agent Engineer, AI Automation Engineer, MCP Server Developer, Cloud and DevOps Engineer
I build AI agents that run entire business processes
AI & Cloud Engineer specializing in MCP servers, agent automation, Kubernetes and GitOps. I write about what I build along the way.
- Double MSc · EURECOM 🇫🇷 + Aalto 🇫🇮
- Ex-Nokia 5G · Helsinki
- Speaker at FOSDEM 2026
- 350+ Medium followers · featured by Cilium
- 25+ apps on a GitOps homelab
What I build
The four things clients hire me for.
Custom MCP Servers
Connect Claude or any AI agent to your real systems: billing, CRM, databases, internal APIs. TypeScript, tested, documented.
See finetwork-mcp →Agents for Business Workflows
Agents that complete real processes: invoice handling, ticket triage, report generation. Claude, LangGraph or CrewAI, with verification loops.
See the agents →Back-Office Automations
Manual processes turned into unattended pipelines. I run 29 of them for 7 rental properties: bank feeds, invoicing, alerts.
See the platform →AI Infrastructure
Your AI stack deployed on Kubernetes with GitOps: model serving, monitoring, backups. On your cloud or on-prem.
Tour the homelab →About
I'm Pablo del Arco, an AI & Cloud Engineer based in Valencia, Spain. I build AI agents, MCP servers and back-office automations, and run them on production-grade Kubernetes.
At OpenNebula Systems I lead EU-funded cloud projects and have shipped the EuroCopilot AI stack across 5 federated European cloud zones. That discipline carries over: what I build ships documented, monitored and on schedule.
Outside work I write about Kubernetes for the self-hosting community and test everything on my own cluster before it goes anywhere near a client.
3+
Years Experience
12
Articles Published
3
Certifications
25+
Self-Hosted Apps
Projects
Six open-source projects: a 25-app GitOps homelab, a platform running 29 cron jobs across 7 rental properties, and two LoRaWAN IoT systems. Every repo ships working code and an architecture diagram.
kubernetes-homelab
GitOps homelab: 25+ self-hosted apps on two Intel N100 mini PCs. K3s, ArgoCD, Cilium, Longhorn, Prometheus. Auto-updated by Renovate, backed up off-cluster.
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opennebula-helm
Production-ready Helm chart for OpenNebula: oned, Sunstone, FireEdge, MariaDB, CI-updated images published to GHCR.
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rental-ops platform
K3s platform running 29 containerized cron jobs managing 7 rental properties end to end: CI/CD, GitOps, Prometheus, Open Banking.
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LoRaWAN smart agriculture
Master's thesis: field sensors reporting over LoRaWAN to ChirpStack, with Node-RED flows and Azure IoT Central dashboards.
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stirling-pdf-addon
Stirling PDF packaged as a one-click Home Assistant add-on: local document processing with no cloud dependency.
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IoT CO2 monitor
BSc thesis: ESP32 CO2 sensors in classrooms reporting over LoRaWAN to The Things Network, with ventilation alerts.
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MCPs & Agents
MCP servers and agents I have published. Each one is documented, open source, and runs against a real system.
finetwork-mcp
MCP server for a Spanish telecom: query invoices, services and billing from Claude Code or any MCP client. TypeScript.
agentbloc
Interviews you about a manual workflow and emits a build-ready spec for the AI agent team that automates it.
hermes-setup
An autonomous self-improving agent running on my K3s cluster, taking real briefs. In progress.
Homelab
A two-node K3s cluster run entirely through GitOps, where every MCP server, agent and deployment pattern gets tested before client work. Live inventory below.
Background
Experience
Technical Project Manager · AI & Cloud Engineer
OpenNebula Systems
- Leading EU-funded cloud-edge projects (EMERALD, CASANDRA) from proposal to delivery.
- Shipped the EuroCopilot AI stack across 5 federated European cloud zones.
Technical Writer
Freelance · Publishing on Medium
- Kubernetes homelab series featured by the Cilium community.
5G Field Verification Engineer
Nokia · Helsinki
- Built Python automation for 5G KPI analysis in live field trials.
Education
Double MSc
2021 - 2023Computer, Communication & Information Sciences
EURECOM (France) + Aalto University (Finland)
BSc Telecommunication Systems
2016 - 2021UCAM Murcia
Talks & Certifications
On stage
How I Turned a Raspberry Pi into an Open-Source Edge Cloud
Multi-Cloud Without the Myth
Kubernetes Homelab blog series
Verified
OpenNebula Certified Expert
2024
LFS258 Kubernetes Fundamentals
2024
Azure AZ-900
2023
Let's talk
Freelance MCP, agent and automation work, remote from Valencia. I reply within 24 hours.