A platform engineer with a diverse background of experiences. Hands-on building and operating scalable SaaS cloud-native systems for over 15 years as both an IC and leader.

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• Core skills: Linux, Terraform, Docker and containers, Go (Golang), Python, CI/CD, AWS
• Developer but always remained close to infrastructure
• Possess an SRE mindset -- scalability, fault-tolerance, consolidating resources, monitoring and alerting
• Passionate about building and running world-class systems

• BS in Computer Science 1996
• Early career — Intel factory automation, Hewlett-Packard, a startup (’96-’11)
• MS in Computer Science 2001
• 12 years writing software for fixed wireless networks in US low-income and throughout East Africa, Haiti, The Philippines
• Co-founder of an ISP in Kenya (’13-’18)
• 5 Years as Platform Engineer at Specialized Bicycle Components (’18-’23)
• Principal Engineer at Blueboard, a SaaS startup (’23-’24)
• Experience at 4 startups

• Basic Go Things
  • gRPC -- Hello World server in Go, clients in Go and Python
• Python + Go Things
• Kubernetes Things -- Hello world stuff (yes, I'm finally learning K8s after >6 years with AWS Elastic Container Service and Docker Swarm...)
• Simple example of how you might use Docker Compose to run a small Fast API server that can reach a Maria DB database

• Shell script to delete old branches
• Use Python in a GHA step
• Manage Cloudflare records
• Cloudflare maintenance page worker
• Other random notes and code snippets
• Shell script to tag a container with a semvar+sha
• List, Copy, Delete S3 Bucket
• A few things that I made to make copying a Postgres db from Heroku to RDS a little easier

• Trick GHA into revealing a secret
• Example of how you might lint in a GHA -- this example is for Terraform, but could be used to lint Python code with Ruff, etc.
• Full example of the context object
• If you must do a nested ternary

• Sort a 1Password Note
• I made this Python script to read Secure Notes from 1Password and push to GitHub Secrets -- this is very bespoke but is how we used 1Password Notes as the "source of truth" for env vars which were stored as GitHub secrets (environment, repository or organization) -- code was originally forked from someone else's project then heavily modified for my needs
• Do the above but in a GHA -- this is the way

TODO: Revisit and revise these projects before linking to them.

• app-api-uploads -- File uploads
• app-frontends -- Hosting for React apps on S3 with CloudFront, etc.
• aws-alarm-infrastructure -- CloudWatch alarms and monitoring
• aws-docker-swarm -- VPC, subnets, EC2s, user data, etc.
• aws-elasticache-redis -- Redis
• aws-guardduty -- Sets up Guard Duty in 4 regions
• aws-iam-accounts -- Used to manage IAM jusers
• aws-postgres-rds -- RDS Serverless v2
• backend-remote-state-- Terraform for the Terraform
• github-manager -- How I managed GitHub... this one needs a lot of refactoring