Jan Radon is the founder and managing director of Jaraco GmbH. He works as a software engineer, architect and technical consultant for companies that need reliable software platforms, pragmatic modernization and hands-on engineering leadership.
What Jan brings into consulting
- Platform Engineering with Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Helm, GitOps, Flux and ArgoCD
- Cloud and infrastructure architecture across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and on-premise platforms
- Microservice architecture with Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, Kafka, RabbitMQ and API design
- DevOps and CI/CD with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Maven and Gradle
- Observability and operations with Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry and Azure Insights
- Distributed storage and systems work with Ceph, Rook, S3, RADOS, RBD and CephFS
- Technical leadership, team coaching, code reviews, quality practices and agile delivery
- Practical use of GenAI and coding agents in software development, documentation and enablement
Experience that shapes Jaraco services
Jan has worked across enterprise software, insurance, banking, energy, telecommunications, tourism, logistics and industrial projects. His work often sits where product delivery, platform operation and software architecture meet.
Recent work includes Ceph and Kubernetes storage engineering, API gateway architecture in banking, DevOps and Kafka platform work in insurance, OpenShift migration consulting, cloud data pipelines, microservice modernization and international team enablement.
This experience is the foundation for Jaraco services such as Platform Assessment, platform modernization, developer platform design, API and integration architecture, DevOps enablement, cloud cost and reliability analysis, and practical proof-of-concept delivery.
Typical project examples
Platform Assessment and modernization
Review Kubernetes, OpenShift or cloud environments, identify reliability and delivery bottlenecks, and turn findings into a prioritized roadmap.
Developer platform and CI/CD
Design GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Helm charts, GitOps flows and quality gates so product teams can release more safely with less manual coordination.
API and microservice architecture
Support API product design, versioning, documentation, monitoring and service architecture for teams that need clear ownership and stable interfaces.
Observability and operations
Improve monitoring, alerting, telemetry and incident analysis so teams understand production behavior and can operate systems with confidence.
GenAI in engineering workflows
Introduce Copilot, coding agents and MCP-enabled workflows where they improve delivery, documentation, onboarding or testing without hiding engineering judgment.
Working style
Jan combines architecture work with implementation. That means decisions are tested against real code, pipelines, operations and team constraints. The goal is not a slide deck; the goal is a platform and operating model that engineers can own.