Background

I am an Automation, Reliability, and Infrastructure Engineer focusing on configuration, automation, and infrastructure-as-code. An expert in highly available, fault tolerant web infrastructure, I have architected and deployed web, game, and commerce infrastructure supporting the business operations of Fortune 50 and 500 companies.

I am currently employed by Blizzard Entertainment as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, focusing on massive-scale Kubernetes, Terraform, Insfrastructure-As-Code, and other infrastructure projects. I have worked as a DevOps Engineer and as a Linux System Administrator at previous organizations.

When not working, I am often contributing to open source projects. I run several open source projects, which can be found in my projects.

I am not actively looking for employment, nor am I actively looking to leave my current employer. I will consider non-remote positions only for exotic destinations such as Hawaii, the Carribbean, and New Jersey. I will not take positions that require travel outside of exotic island destinations.

Things I Know

I am well versed in a myriad of technologies and program languages. Some of the more notable ones are outlined below, but this list is by no means exhaustive.

• Kubernetes
  • Building and scaling out micro to massive scale Kubernetes clusters.
  • Experience with custom built Kubernetes clusters using Kubeadm and Kubespray.
  • Experience with turnkey Kubernetes cloud solutions like Rancher, Google Cloud GKE, and AWS EKS.
  • GitOps adoption, migration, and development using ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experenced and comfortable at troubleshooting critical Severity 1 issues on active incident bridges as the primary engineer.
• Infrastructure Architecture
  • Developing and implementing Infrastructure As Code via terraform and Packer.
  • Architecting full infrastructure designs at Google Cloud and AWS.
  • Extensive experiencing optimizing and min/maxing infrastructure for budget and performance.
  • Secure secret management for both GitOps as well as Terraform/CI+CD through Hashicorp Vault.
• Application Programming
  • Go language experience writing both libraries and applications. Check out my Projects page for examples.
  • PHP 5, 7, and 8 web application development for both monolithic and microservice applications.
  • BASH scripting expertise.
  • Familiarity with numerous other programming languages, including: Python, Ruby, Javascript, C++, C#.
• Oberservability and Alerting
  • Designing and deploying VM-based and Kubernetes based Oberservability platforms for global production infrastructure.
  • Prometheus+Thanos, ELK Stack, Loki, and Grafana open source observability platforms.
  • Datadog closed source observability platform.
  • Experienced designing sane alerting systems that don't cause alert fatigue.

In addition to all of the above, I am also an experienced Linux administrator. I daily drive Linux (Arch btw), as I enjoy having complete control over my systems and software.

You Made It! 👏

Because you've read this far, make sure you check out my Projects page to see what I've written and what I'm currently working on.

Please enjoy this hippo picture, and get in touch!