Kubernetes, virtualization and AI, in plain language.
Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE and Arm Ambassador. I build labs, run workshops and talk on stage about Kubernetes, containers, virtual machines on Kubernetes, the AI agents that are starting to help run all of it, and how to keep control of your technology, cloud and AI. Based in Valencia.
From a shop floor to the stage, one level at a time. Pick a level, or use the arrow keys.
Before any cluster, I spent 14 years at a big retail chain, from the sales floor to after-sales manager. I sold TVs and explained them to people who only wanted them to work.
I spent hours on that floor talking to strangers, learning to listen and to explain. I had no idea those years would help me so much later, from demos for one customer at Red Hat to talks for full rooms at conferences. Life has a funny way of preparing you for things you can't see yet.
In 2014 I got my first tech job, DevOps at Capgemini in Valencia.
Then Red Hat, as a solution architect in Barcelona and later across EMEA. Most of what I know about Kubernetes I learned sitting next to customers, in proofs of concept that had to run on their own hardware, far from the comfort of my laptop.
In 2021 I joined SUSE, first on Kubernetes management with Rancher.
Then edge and telco: shops, factories and cell sites with no data center and nobody on site. It is the part of infrastructure I find most fun, and the hardest to explain.
Edge means many small clusters instead of one big one. So I build labs that anyone can deploy and break. rodeo-cli came out of that: one YAML file in, a working lab out.
I have given 23 talks so far, from KCD Spain to KubeCon, plus workshops where people deploy the lab themselves. My goal is simple: you leave the room able to try it on Monday.
rodeo-cli was built with AI agents at my side. They are fast, and they still need someone watching what they do.
Next on my list: AI agents that help run Kubernetes and VMs, explained the same way.
The save file. Every level above, as a plain CV.
Lv 6Jan 2026 to todayNow playing
SUSE, remote from Spain
Lv 5Jul 2023 to Dec 2025
SUSE, remote from Spain
Lv 4Dec 2021 to Jun 2023
SUSE, remote from Spain
Lv 3Nov 2019 to Dec 2021
Red Hat, remote from Spain
Lv 3Aug 2017 to Dec 2019
Red Hat, Barcelona
Lv 2Jul 2014 to Aug 2017
Capgemini, Valencia
Lv 12000 to 2014
A big retail chain
Recognised by Arm for work on Arm in edge and cloud-native workloads. I write and demo Arm across 5G, IoT and open source.
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.
Download CVSave file: Andres_Valero_CV.pdf
Selected talks, newest first.
| Year | Talk | Where | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Friheten i Koden: digital sovereignty for the Nordic age | Cloud Native Days Norway, with Jeroen van Erp | WatchSlidesRepo |
| 2026 | Cloud native y modernización: Rancher Prime and SUSE Virtualization | SUSE Exchange Murcia | Slides soon |
| 2025 | Standing out in a competitive dev tools landscape | Draft.dev webinar | Watch |
| 2024 | Deploying multi-cluster Kubernetes | OpenNebulaCon | Watch |
| 2023 | IoT at the edge with K3s and Akri | KCD Spain | Watch |
| 2022 | Edge, are you ready? | SUSECON | Watch |
| 2022 | Build a lightweight private cloud with Harvester, K3s and Traefik | Traefik Labs webinar | Watch |
| 2021 | OpenShift multi-cluster management with Red Hat ACM | DevConf CZ | Watch |
23 talks so far, in 7 countries. Also at Mobile World Congress, KubeCon, Red Hat Summit, Open Infra Summit Shanghai, Red Hat Forum Spain and esLibre. See all 23 talks
Notes from the field. Most of it runs on the SUSE blog. The posts written here are marked.
Labs you can run yourself.
Open source CLI that turns a YAML file into a working lab on KVM or in the cloud. Plan, apply, done. No hand-written Ansible.
Built with Python, Ansible, libvirt, Click, Jinja2
Self-serve bare-metal workshop for SUSE Edge, end to end: Rancher Prime, Elemental, Edge Image Builder and TPM node registration.
You need a Linux terminal. The workshop walks every step.
Stand up a multi-node Harvester cluster, import it into Rancher Prime and run day-2 operations on real hardware.
You need basic virtualization concepts. No Harvester experience.
Need a speaker or a workshop? I'm in Valencia and travel for conferences, meetups and community events. Webinars and technical writing too.
