# Pablo del Arco

> Technical Project Manager at OpenNebula and its Project Lead in euroFMX (€45M, ~70 partners in 20 countries), EMERALD and CASANDRA: EU-funded cloud, edge and AI infrastructure projects worth €56M+. Hands-on with Kubernetes, Slurm and LLM serving. Based in Valencia, Spain. Works at OpenNebula Systems. Open to Technical Project Manager roles in EU R&I, EuroHPC AI Factories and cloud & AI programmes. Replies to email within 24 hours.

Role: Technical Project Manager. Location: Valencia, Spain. Languages: Spanish (native), English (C1), French (B2). Email: hello@pablodelarco.com.

## Identity

- [Home and professional profile](https://pablodelarco.com/): canonical profile, EU projects, experience and contact
- [Resume](https://pablodelarco.com/resume.pdf): one page CV in PDF
- [GitHub](https://github.com/pablodelarco): public engineering projects and source code
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pablo-del-arco/): professional history, talks and updates
- [Medium](https://pdelarco.medium.com/): most articles from this site, republished

## What I do

- [Pilots & architecture](https://pablodelarco.com/#service-pilots-architecture): I turn partner requirements into working cloud-edge pilots, from continuous certification for a bank to an industrial data-space platform.
- [EU project delivery](https://pablodelarco.com/#service-eu-project-delivery): I own tasks, pilots and deliverables in Horizon Europe, CDTI and IPCEI-CIS projects, and represent OpenNebula at reviews and General Assemblies.
- [Sovereign AI infrastructure](https://pablodelarco.com/#service-sovereign-ai-infrastructure): I deliver AI services on European clouds, like EuroCopilot across 9 availability zones on 5 providers, and contribute to EuroHPC AI Factory work.
- [Technical writing](https://pablodelarco.com/#service-technical-writing): Blog posts on Medium, including my 4-part Kubernetes Homelab Series, EU deliverables and talks from FOSDEM to foss-north.

## EU projects

- euroFMX: Horizon Europe, €45M. OpenNebula Project Lead. Energy-efficient AI model hosting and inference at the edge.
- EMERALD: Horizon Europe, €5.5M. OpenNebula Project Lead. Continuous cloud security certification (EUCS) for the financial sector.
- CASANDRA: CDTI Misiones, €5.6M. OpenNebula Project Lead. Digital architecture and middleware.
- O-CEI: Horizon Europe, €27.9M. Technical Contributor. Cloud-edge-IoT platform engineering.
- IPCEI-CIS: €1.2B state aid. Technical Contributor. Cloud-edge testbed federation and use-case validation.

## Tech stack

- Cloud & edge: OpenNebula, Kubernetes (K3s, RKE2, Cluster API), Helm, Argo CD, Terraform, Ansible, Slurm, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana
- AI infrastructure: vLLM, llama.cpp, LiteLLM, LLM serving, Flower, MCP servers
- Data spaces & IoT: Eclipse Dataspace Connector (EDC), OPC-UA, MQTT, EUCS cloud certification
- Programming & CI/CD: Python, Bash, TypeScript, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Trivy
- EU project delivery: Horizon Europe reporting, deliverables, pilots, reviews & General Assemblies, Asana
- Certifications: OpenNebula Certified Expert, LFS258 Kubernetes Fundamentals, AZ-900

## Evidence and examples

- [Case studies](https://pablodelarco.com/case-studies): real systems, constraints, implementation details and measured results
- [How I Automated a 9-Property Rental Business with a Team of AI Agents](https://pablodelarco.com/case-studies/arco-rooms): 9 buildings, 71 tenants, 7 bank accounts, 6 utility providers. One system runs it all unattended, and the managers read the results on Telegram.
- [kubernetes-homelab](https://github.com/pablodelarco/kubernetes-homelab): GitOps homelab with around 25 self-hosted apps on two Intel N100 mini PCs. K3s, Argo CD, Cilium, Longhorn, Prometheus. Auto-updated by Renovate, backed up off-cluster.
- [finetwork-mcp](https://github.com/pablodelarco/finetwork-mcp): Unofficial MCP server, not affiliated with Finetwork. Its read-only tools let Claude Code or any MCP client read the invoices, services and billing of your own Finetwork account. TypeScript, documented, open source.
- [opennebula-helm](https://github.com/pablodelarco/opennebula-helm): Community-maintained Helm chart and container image that run the OpenNebula front-end (oned, FireEdge, OneFlow, OneGate) on Kubernetes. SQLite backend, CI-built images on Docker Hub.
- [stirling-pdf-addon](https://github.com/pablodelarco/stirling_pdf_addon): Stirling PDF packaged as a one-click Home Assistant add-on: local document processing with no cloud dependency.
- [LoRaWAN smart agriculture](https://github.com/pablodelarco/LoRaWAN-Smart-Agriculture-System): Master's thesis: field sensors reporting over LoRaWAN to ChirpStack, with Node-RED flows and Azure IoT Central dashboards.
- [IoT CO2 monitor](https://github.com/pablodelarco/IoT-CO2-Monitor): BSc thesis: ESP32 CO2 sensors in classrooms reporting over LoRaWAN to The Things Network, with ventilation alerts.
- [Homelab](https://pablodelarco.com/#homelab): the two-node K3s cluster where everything is tested first

## Experience and credentials

- OpenNebula Systems: Technical Project Manager · previously Cloud & DevOps Innovation Engineer, Feb 2024 - Present
- Freelance: Technical Writer, Jan 2025 - Present
- Nokia: 5G Field Verification Engineer, May - Nov 2023
- Certifications: LFS258: Kubernetes Fundamentals (The Linux Foundation, 2024); OpenNebula Certified Expert (OpenNebula Systems, 2024); Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 (Microsoft, 2023); Claude Code in Action (Anthropic, 2026); Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics (Anthropic, 2026)
- Talks: FOSDEM 2026, foss-north 2026, NexusForum Summit 2025, NexusForum webinar 2026, IPCEI-CIS General Assembly demo 2025

## Writing

- [Medium](https://pdelarco.medium.com/): Kubernetes Homelab Series (4 parts)
- [Blog](https://pablodelarco.com/writing): 14 guides on Kubernetes, AI and self-hosting
- [AI Skills reviews](https://pablodelarco.com/claude-skills): 4 hands-on reviews of agent skills and tools tested on real projects
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- [Full content](https://pablodelarco.com/llms-full.txt): profile, what I do, EU projects, stack, experience, projects, every case study and every article in one Markdown file

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