About
Hi, I’m Wladislaw Mitzel. I’m a Solutions Architect and help engineering teams get their infrastructure setup into shape: faster to change, safer to run and easier to reason about.
Where I’ve been
- Pulumi (since 2025): helping teams treat infrastructure as software, written in TypeScript, Python, Go, Java or C#, across AWS, Azure, GCP and European sovereign clouds.
- Alibaba Cloud (2024–2025), Senior Solutions Architect: enterprise customers in regulated environments, AI and LLM workloads, architecture reviews and workshops up to C-level.
- AWS (2020–2024), Solutions Architect for Media & Entertainment: cloud migrations for large TV broadcasters, containers and Kubernetes.
Before that I spent years as a developer: workflow-based CRM systems, BPMN and process mining, migrations from Windows fat clients to Java EE, integrations secured with Kerberos, LDAP and OAuth 2, and systems under PCI DSS. That last one got me into security.
What I work on
- Infrastructure as code in real programming languages, reviewed and tested like any other code.
- Guardrails for infrastructure: policies and checks that stop bad changes before they ship, without blocking everyone.
- Agentic infrastructure: AI agents that plan and change infrastructure, with the guardrails and review steps that make it safe.
- Platforms as products: measured by adoption and saved time, not by dashboards.
What you’ll find here
Write-ups from real setups. How something works, what broke and how I fixed it.
Most of it comes from my own projects. I run a small Kubernetes cluster in Germany, and that’s where I try things before I recommend them.
I work at Pulumi. This blog is my own, opinions included.
Only the ones, who always have a target, are alive.
- Emil Oetsch
Get in touch
If your team wants to improve its setup, or you just want to talk about any of this, reach out: