I am a Platform Engineer with deep expertise in site reliability and DevSecOps principles. My background in Full Stack Web Development provides an engineering-centric perspective when architecting platforms.
My areas of focus include:
Within the web development space, I have experience with:
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GitOps-managed k3s cluster deployed with Terraform and Ansible, designed to replicate the UX of managed/cloud k8s offerings. Highly available control plane via HAProxy, Keepalived, and mock AZs. Services utilized include: Cilium for CNI, MetalLB for LBs, Istio for Ingress, Keycloak as an IdP, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, Rook Ceph for persistence, and OPA Gatekeeper for policy enforcement.
Written in Go and published as a container image. GitHub Actions is used for CI/CD. Project includes tests, documentation, and a full-featured Makefile for transparent builds/releases. Supports multiple installation methods.
Routing and firewall functions via pfSense. Hardware is mostly one-liter PCs, with Ubuntu/KVM/Libvirt for virtualization, CoreOS VMs for tier-zero services like HashiCorp Vault, storage from TrueNAS SCALE, and an RPi4 running Home Assistant.
This very website. Rendered with Hugo and styled with Tailwind CSS. Pages are precompressed with Brotli and served by Caddy from a reproducible, signed container image with an SBOM. Deployed to GCP Cloud Run with Terraform. GitHub Actions is used for CI/CD, including Lighthouse audits and security scans.
The Speedtest C++ CLI tool published as a container image. Cirrus CI is used for CI/CD. The structured JSON output could be passed to Prometheus via the Grok exporter as a useful metric for network health.
A RESTful web service for reverse geocoding. Supports fall-through providers, caching, multiple provider types, and more! Built with Node.js and Redis.