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About Me

Cloud Engineer and Hardware Nerd

I am a Cloud Engineer working on AWS, Azure, Infrastructure & Automation, and GitOps / Kubernetes. I like to continuously expand my knowledge using my HomeLab environment to deploy and experiment with open source technologies.

My motto: "Boil things down to the most fundamental truths and reason up from there."

Hobbies

  • Spending time with my family - we love to be outdoors when the weather is nice.
  • Creating things in the home recording studio.
  • Building PCs and other projects with our kids.
  • Constantly learning through hands-on experimentation - diving into new open-source projects, spinning up tools in my homelab, and breaking things just to figure out how they really work.
  • Working on cars, constantly talking about Tesla.

HomeLab Environment

I run a full UniFi ecosystem for networking and management. The top patch panel handles all 1 Gb devices plus a handful of 2.5 Gb clients. Directly below it sits my 10 Gb switch, dedicated to high-bandwidth gear: the Dell R730xd, UniFi UNAS Pro, and a few UniFi U7 Pro XG access points with 10 Gb uplinks. Yes, it’s complete overkill.

Click to see HomeLab Rack - Front

Rack front view
In the back of the rack are three Minisforum MS-01 mini-PCs serving as my Kubernetes cluster nodes. Each runs both control-plane and worker roles for a fully HA control plane, and they’re all mounted in custom 3D-printed 1U rack ears.

Click to see HomeLab Rack - Rear

Rack rear view
Feel free to check out my k8s-gitops repo where you can see how I'm utilizing a GitOps approach with Flux and GitHub Actions for Kubernetes cluster and application management.

Platforms & Technologies

Experience with:

Platforms
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AWS
Amazon Web Services
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Azure
Microsoft Azure
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Docker
Docker
Development
VS Code
IDE
Sublime Text
IDE
Kilo Code
Coding Agent
Cline
Coding Agent
Terraform
IaC Tool
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CloudFormation
IaC Tool
Hardware
Ubiquiti UniFi
Networking Hardware
Asset 1
F5
F5 Hardware
SonicWALL
SonicWALL Hardware
Design & Audio
Photoshop
Picture Editing
Illustrator
Vector Drawing
Final Cut Pro
Video Editing
Premiere Pro
Video Editing
Ableton Live
Audio Production
Operating Systems
Talos Linux
Immutable OS for Kubernetes
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Linux Distribution
macOS
Apple
Windows Server
Microsoft

Social Networks

I keep a pretty light social footprint - but you’re welcome to connect on GitHub, LinkedIn, or catch me gaming on Steam.

GitHub
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LinkedIn
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About This Website

Website history:

  • 2025-11-25
    Website refactored using Astro using a fork of Astro Theme Pure
  • 2025-11-22
    Research and discovery of new static web technologies
  • 2025-11-20
    Began initial website planning

I am currently hosting this website on Vercel, however I do have an instance of this site running in my Kubernetes cluster, which will soon be its permanent home. Below are a few others that I rely on: