Built to run without me in the room.
I design and operate infrastructure end to end, Kubernetes clusters, Ceph storage, Proxmox clusters, OpenStack , and I write the software that runs on top of it. Currently Senior DevOps Engineer and Team Lead, running production OpenStack, Kubernetes, Proxmox, and Ceph clusters. Tracing problems through command line when everyone else stops at the dashboard.
How I got here.
Software Engineer
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Passed exam
DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Passed exam
CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Passed exam
Senior DevOps Engineer and Team Lead
Featured Work.
Enterprise Kubernetes Infrastructure Platform
Designed and deployed a highly available Kubernetes cluster architecture with dedicated control plane, API server, and etcd nodes. Implemented Cilium for advanced networking, security, and observability, alongside Argo CD to establish a GitOps-driven continuous delivery pipeline for automated application deployments.
OpenStack + Ceph Production Cluster
Juju/MAAS-orchestrated OpenStack cluster on a 20-OSD Ceph RBD backend. Root-caused sustained OSD latency spikes to BlueStore running on spinning HDDs with no dedicated WAL/DB device.
Proxmox ZFS Pool Migration
Migrated a live host from rpool to a newly built pool — GRUB and boot-tool reconfiguration, pool renaming, zero data loss.
JD Lawn & Tree
Static site plus a serverless contact-form backend. Utilizing API Gateway, Lambda (Python), and SES handling delivery end to end for a live client business.
https://www.jdclawnandtree.comGoToDoCLI
A task manager built three ways; CLI, TUI, and web. Sharing one Go backend and a Postgres store, .
Self Hosted Network Stack
Headscale as a self-hosted Tailscale control plane, Technitium DNS with local zones and TLS, WireGuard on Proxmox. A private network with no vendor in the loop.
Demo Ingestion Pipeline
A pipeline to authenticate against Steam's Game Coordinator, decode match share codes, and queue demo processing through RabbitMQ to be analyzed and record users stats.
Automated Backup Infrastructure Platform
Designed and deployed an automated backup solution for streamlined server data protection. Leveraging Semaphore, Ansible automation, NFS storage, and BorgBackup to create, manage, and maintain reliable backup repositories across Linux environments.
The toolchain.
CKA · CKAD · AWS Developer Associate issued.