Wentzel Consulting helps enterprises design and run GitOps-driven Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms — so your teams ship faster without losing control.
Led by founder & principal architect Ryan Wentzel, specializing in GitOps frameworks for enterprise clusters.
We work with teams who are serious about running Kubernetes or OpenShift as a product — with clear standards, guardrails, and automation that scales across environments.
Get from “we’re experimenting with Argo CD” to a production-ready GitOps foundation designed for your clusters, workloads, and security requirements.
Turn a collection of clusters into a coherent platform with standards, guardrails, and day-2 operations baked in.
Senior platform leadership without a full-time headcount. We guide architecture, coach teams, and keep the platform roadmap aligned to reality.
We bring battle-tested patterns from leading OpenShift and Kubernetes initiatives, not theory. Here’s what that has looked like in practice.
Reduced OpenShift cluster deployment time by standardizing GitOps automation and reusable templates, enabling ops teams to roll out new environments in days instead of months.
Defined and validated reference architectures and day-2 patterns used to operate dozens of clusters across hybrid environments with consistent guardrails and observability.
Integrated secrets and policy controls to support PCI/SOX objectives while improving developer velocity through self-service environments instead of ticket queues.
Led a distributed team across regions to build standards, documentation, and playbooks that made operational handoffs predictable and sustainable.
Wentzel Consulting is a boutique platform engineering and GitOps consultancy. We work with organizations who view their platform as a product — and need it to be predictable.
We specialize in making Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms reliable, secure, and repeatable. That often means:
Ryan is a Platform Architecture Leader with deep experience across infrastructure, private cloud, and Kubernetes. He has led OpenShift and Kubernetes initiatives spanning 30+ clusters, built GitOps frameworks with Argo CD, Helm, and Kustomize, and integrated secrets and policy controls (ESO/Vault/SOPS) for regulated environments.
Personal site: ryanwentzel.com
Share a bit about your platform and goals. We’ll follow up with a short discovery call and a straightforward recommendation — even if that’s “stay the course” or “you don’t need us yet.”
We typically start with a 30–45 minute call to understand your current platform, constraints, and desired outcomes. If there’s a fit, we’ll propose a concrete way to help — usually anchored in one of the services above.
No high-pressure sales process. Just an honest assessment and options.