About
I'm Kalin Daskalov — a DevOps Engineer focused on Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure. I work on Kubernetes platform capabilities and workload identity using SPIFFE and SPIRE patterns, with a growing focus on Go-based controller development. Outside work, I run an Intel GPU home inference lab on Kubernetes where I study model serving and GPU operations with a reproducible GitOps approach. Most of that work and the lessons from it are documented here.
Sonda.red is the namespace for my personal lab, not a company, vendor, or product platform. Content and projects here are by me unless otherwise noted.
Before tech, I came from a very different world — bookbinding and high craft. My hobby was customizing linux distros since I was 15 and ironically it became my career but at scale.
Why sonda.red?
When I was a kid in my home town in the late 90s, I lived next to an old man who owned and operated a red Fiat 126 taxi, and a massive Soviet well-drilling truck to which the word in Bulgarian was sonda(сонда). While everyone else worked standard jobs, he sat on his balcony, watching his truck, cleaning his taxi, and yelling at us kids if we climbed on his truck. Sometimes if he felt like it, went on a ride with his taxi to make some money. More rarely, he would start the drill truck and go somewhere. He was the first truly independent person I ever saw.
I was browsing for domains one day for this space and saw .red ones at good prices and this memory popped into my head. The red taxi and the sonda.
