Victor García
Senior / Staff Platform · DevOps · AI-platform builder · Founder at Totem Labs Forge
Operate real infrastructure at scale. And use AI — with method — to multiply the throughput of a solo operator.
Self-taught infrastructure operator and AI-platform builder with 10+ years shipping production systems. I run two tracks in parallel today: Senior BE/DevOps at Range Security (~70 Hetzner bare-metal hosts, Kubernetes from scratch, 18 Elasticsearch nodes, 17 Redis, Kafka with TLS+SASL/SCRAM+ACLs), and founder of Totem Labs Forge LLC (Delaware).
At Range I designed and operate the Kubernetes bootstrap from scratch (kubeadm + Cilium eBPF + ArgoCD + External Secrets Operator + Vault + Cloudflared Zero Trust), drove the Elasticsearch v7→v9 migration end-to-end with zero regression, and shipped an MCP server in production (`range-api` + `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk` + `@nestjs-mcp/server`) that exposes address / network / risk / transfer queries to AI agents over 170M+ labels. I also maintain docs.range.org (63 of 98 commits in the last 90 days, 60 documented endpoints, 21-tool MCP catalog).
At Totem Labs I shipped ERA (Cosmobiology app, live on Google Play since April 2026) on a three-tier AI architecture (DeepSeek runtime + OpenAI translation + offline Claude Opus via local CLI, zero recurring model cost), and Forgetty — GTK4 terminal emulator in Rust, ~38K LOC, 159 commits in 24 days (peak 60 commits/day), built with my own multi-agent Forge harness (Plan → Build → QA with mandatory audits).
Available for Kubernetes consulting, stateful migrations (Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis), and platform engineering. Reach out at vikgm.dev@gmail.com.
Open to
Experience
Founder & Engineer
Totem Labs Forge LLC (Delaware) — ERA (Cosmobiology AI, Google Play) · Forgetty (Rust terminal, ~38K LOC) · Forge multi-agent harness
Senior Backend / DevOps (Consultant)
Range Security — ~70 hosts · K8s from scratch · 18 ES · 17 Redis · Kafka · MCP · SOC 2 Type I
Senior Backend Engineer
Exodus Movement (Exchange Squad) — 10x reduction in rate-building, TypeScript migration, GraphQL API Gateway
Senior Software Engineer / Blockchain Lead
Wizeline — 50+ assets integrated · 3 months → 3 weeks lead time · Blockchain 101 with 80+ attendees
Security Engineer
Mantix4 — Big Data + ML for security: Kafka, Spark, Scikit-Learn, ELK, Zeek/Bro IDS
Android / AR Developer
DaCodes, InReal, Nublogin — 7+ apps on Play Store · Unity3D + Vuforia AR
Projects
Kubernetes from scratch on bare metal
Case study: reproducible 10-script bootstrap on Hetzner — kubeadm + Cilium eBPF + ArgoCD + ESO + Vault + Cloudflared
Elasticsearch v7 → v9 migration
Case study: 18 nodes / 5 clusters / zero regression on a live platform with shape-compare
ERA — Cosmobiology AI
Live on Google Play. 3-tier AI stack (DeepSeek + OpenAI + offline Claude Opus)
Forgetty — GTK4 Rust terminal
MIT · ~38K LOC · 159 commits in 24 days · 486 themes · built with the Forge harness
docs.range.org + MCP server
64 pages · 60 endpoints · 21-tool MCP catalog · Claude Code / Cursor setup
Certifications & resources
Anthropic
Range Security
Totem Labs Forge
Education
- Self-taught. Continuous learning through production systems, open source, running Totem Labs, and multiple internal academies (ran one, attended many).
Releases
ERA — Cosmobiology AI v1.0 (closed beta → production)
Google Play · April 2026
Forgetty v0.1.0-beta — GTK4 Rust terminal emulator
GitHub · April 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Victor García?
Victor García (vikgmdev) is a self-taught infrastructure operator and AI-platform builder with 10+ years. Senior Backend / DevOps at Range Security, where he operates ~70 Hetzner bare-metal hosts, a Kubernetes cluster from scratch (kubeadm + Cilium eBPF + ArgoCD + External Secrets Operator + Vault + Cloudflared Zero Trust), 18 Elasticsearch nodes across 5 clusters (drove the v7→v9 migration end-to-end), 17 Redis hardened after a real security incident, two Kafka clusters with TLS+SASL/SCRAM+ACLs, Postgres HA with pgBackRest, Teleport CE with custom RBAC, 47 Prometheus alert rules and 12 Grafana dashboards. Author and maintainer of docs.range.org (60 endpoints, 21-tool MCP catalog). Parallel track as founder of Totem Labs Forge LLC (Delaware), where he shipped ERA (Cosmobiology app on Google Play with a 3-tier AI stack) and Forgetty (GTK4 Rust terminal emulator, ~38K LOC, 159 commits in 24 days). Based in El Tiemblo, Spain, relocating to Mérida, Mexico by October 2026.
What can Victor do as a Kubernetes consultant?
Victor can bootstrap Kubernetes from scratch on bare metal (kubeadm + Cilium eBPF + ArgoCD GitOps + External Secrets Operator + Hashicorp Vault + Cloudflared Zero Trust, documented and reproducible in 10 scripts), run zero-downtime stateful migrations (Elasticsearch v7→v9 with shape-compare tooling, Postgres HA with pgBackRest DR, Redis hardening), design observability (federated Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager + PagerDuty), and architect platforms for teams that do not want to live on a managed provider. Production experience with 5 ES clusters, 17 Redis, 70+ hosts. Email: vikgm.dev@gmail.com.
What is Totem Labs Forge?
Totem Labs Forge LLC is Victor's product studio — a Delaware LLC incorporated via Stripe Atlas. It builds AI-first products with a custom multi-agent harness (Plan → Build → QA with mandatory audits, per-task git worktrees, overnight autonomous mode) that lets a solo operator hit team-level throughput. Current products: ERA (Cosmobiology app on Google Play since April 2026, built on a methodology transmitted by Hector García — Victor's father — across 30+ years), Forgetty (GTK4 Rust terminal emulator, MIT, at forgetty.dev), and Totem Control Center (internal infra dashboard). Stack: NestJS 11, Vite/React 18, Capacitor 8, Three.js, Ansible, Kubernetes, DeepSeek, OpenAI, offline Claude Opus.