Projects

Projects

Erasure encoding

GTN

AWS IPAM

PingIdentity

Netblock registration / management

kr8+

Open source tool to generate static cluster config from jsonnet. Allows combining manifests from multiple sources (templates, compose, helm, raw) to idempotent generate files to be consumed by automation.

DC Smarthands

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Technical Skills & System Design

System Architecture

Networking

Physical Datacenter
Multi-cloud experience
IPv4 + IPv6
Own 2620:C7:6000::/48 netblock

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Terraform / Terragrunt
Cloudformation

Containerization & Orchestration

Kubernetes
Docker-compose

Database Management

MySQL
Postgresql
SQLite
Cloud-managed (Aurora, )

Programming & Scripting

Language	Skill Level	Projects
Go	9	API service, jsonnet configuration templating tool
Python	7	Gamestate inegration tool, Micropython on Pi
Jsonnet	7	20+ kube clusters
Bash	7	CI/CD automation
C	5	ESP32 Warwalker
C#	6	Dental Practice software
PHP	6	Self-service portal
HTML/JS	6	Personal blog,

Automation & Tooling

CI/CD Pipelines

Jenkins - Created deployment pipelines from scratch. Experience migrating pipelines to modern platforms.
Github / Gitlab / Gitea - Build, test and deploy projects. Experience with deploying and managing self-hosted runners.
Atlantis - Automated terraform plan and apply operations
Ansible - Managed network appliance policy configuration
Puppet - Managed multi-datacenter, multi-cloud platform systems

Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus - funnel and manage existing flows, integrate metrics into applications
OTel - Experience managing metrics and integrating tooling into existing tools/applications
Grafana - Experience creating and managing dashboards, both dynamic and declaratively.
Datadog
Splunk
Pagerduty
Slack-ops - Integrated alerts with slack to improve issue visibility and runbooks.
Finops - Using cost metrics to guide architecture decisions.
Chaos engineering

Incident Response Automation

Design runbooks + alerting systems
Post-mortem analysis and improvement
Incident management and leadership

Reliability & Metrics

SLA/SLI Management

Define, track, and optimize Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Proficiency in debugging complex issues, identifying patterns, and implementing preventative measures.

Performance Optimization

Skills in identifying bottlenecks, scaling systems, and ensuring low-latency, high-throughput operations.

Security & Compliance

Infrastructure Security

Infrastructure security: IAM, encryption, network segmentation

Compliance & Auditing

Familiarity with common regulatory standards and tools for audit trails and compliance checks.
GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, FedRAMP

Collaboration & Communication

Cross-Team Collaboration

Documentation

Develop documentation alongside code
Production Readiness Review - Formulated core properties to verify software against to ensure readiness for a production environment.

Problem-Solving & critical Thinking

Incident Triage
Tradeoff analysis
Innovation

Tools & Technologies

Cloud Platforms

Moniting/Alerting Tools

Logging & Tracing

Key Soft Skills

Adaptability

Attention to Detail

Ownership & Accountability