Open source enthusiast, full time student, and Site Reliability Engineer. Intrigued by not over-complicating workflows, but making them useful and always reproducible -- DRY (do not repeat yourself). In my pastime I like to host GitOps clusters at home and in the cloud to practice site reliability engineering, and contribute back to OpenSource projects. Besides technology I enjoy taking the back-roads and driving spiritually.
At Sectigo I was brought on with five other SRE's as we improved the organization's landscape from continuous delivery, observability, and business continuity. We worked closely as a team to eliminate technical debt and configuration drift. While leveraging new methods of automation and ensuring idempotency. Interesting challenges are faced along the road such as Kubernetes platforms for on-premise to well align with our storage vendor and hypervisors
Facilitated the migration of our SCM repositories to GitHub.
Maintained our on-premise infrastructure (Vmware/Proxmox
Lead a Kubernetes rejuvenation projection with GitOps in mind and a tighter integration with cluster provisioning.
Supported various certificate transparency projects.
Advocate for more immutable infrastructure.
Assisted in various centralized logging tasks.
Work with the operations and development teams to keep our apps churning. Provide direction to developers for easy interoperation of app deployments in Kubernetes. Supply SRE guidance to operations teams for our infrastructure and integrate with OpenSource tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Loki, Pagerduty, and CloudWatch.
Lead the migration off from Rancher 1 to EKS Fargate Kubernetes
Write Gitlab-CI pipelines to build containers, and deploy applications
Work in a on-prem and AWS environment with intricate networking and DNS layouts in the cloud
Manage Ansible for our deprecated hosts
Use Terraform and Flux for our new infrastructure
Provide developers with base images workflows for a seamless development environment.
Performed datacenter tasks during market close in one of our cololocations site during night. Worked on scripting, automation, and switch configuration during day.
Worked with Cisco, Arista, and Cisco Nexus switches
Contributed to in-house asset management
Worked on a logistical shipping project in Python
Spoke to several high profiles on best practices such as the flux team, and Kasten.
Help others grow and learn new technology stacks and not lock OpenSource behind a paywall.
Use as a testing ground for testing new projects at work.
Work with Flathub, and KDE developers to send patches upstream.
Learn an up and coming desktop container platform.
Contribute back to the software I use daily.
Work with Fedora infra and the go-sig.
Contribute back to the software I use daily.