Platform & Site Reliability Engineer | Cloud-Native | Kubernetes | Terraform | Go | Automation | CI\CD Pipelines
Navy veteran and Platform Engineer in Seattle building and running multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
10+ years managing large-scale systems—from 5,000+ Linux servers to full Kubernetes and IaC deployments.
I build resilient platforms, automate relentlessly, and document everything for the next engineer.
“If a process needs human intervention twice, it gets automated.”
Stack: Go · Docker · GitHub Actions · GCP Artifact Registry · GKE · ArgoCD
- Built a complete end-to-end GitOps CI/CD pipeline from scratch — Go code to production on GKE in 7 hours.
- Implemented GitHub Actions for automated builds, GCP Artifact Registry for image management, and ArgoCD for continuous delivery.
- Validated full deployment lifecycle including intentional pod failures, permissions hardening, and service account RBAC.
- 🧾 Fully documented with architecture diagram, runbook, and 50+ screenshots.
Stack: Kubernetes (Minikube), Terraform, Prometheus, GCP, ProxMox
- Built multi-namespace Kubernetes environment in Minikube on bare-metal Ubuntu, integrated with GCP and ProxMox for hybrid operations. Implemented Istio, RBAC, and Zero-Trust controls with full observability.
- ⏱️ Terraform cut provisioning from 6 h → 5 m | 📊 MTTR reduced ~50% | 🧾 Fully documented ops logs
Stack: AWS, ProxMox, Terraform, WireGuard, DataDog, Prometheus
- Deployed site-to-site VPN and migrated observability from Prometheus → DataDog in 13 hours.
- 6 production dashboards, 10+ documented troubleshooting events, and enforced IAM least privilege.
Stack: Go, Docker, GitHub Actions, GCP Artifact Registry
- Containerized a Go app and built CI/CD from build → test → deploy.
- Automated tagging and artifact push to GCP with fully documented failures and fixes.
Stack: Go, Linux (Ubuntu)
- Structured Go learning repository focused on fundamentals → data structures → control flow.
- 🧾 Full logs, screenshots, and debugging notes across 30+ exercises.
🧭 Full Roadmap: 2025–2026 Platform Engineering Lab
Phase 1: CI/CD Expansion & Go Mastery
- Complete Go Intermediate & Advanced courses.
Phase 2: Hybrid Cloud Expansion
- Implement Pub/Sub + Secrets Manager for API key rotation and alerts.
- Extend Terraform manifests to connect GCP → ProxMox via WireGuard S2S VPN.
- Provision Talos on-prem clusters and enable full region redundancy.
- Integrate Prometheus + Grafana dashboards across both clusters.
Phase 3: Advanced Observability & FinOps
- Complete Prometheus Certified Associate and OpenTelemetry courses.
- Deploy OTel collectors, Loki, and OpenCost for tracing, logging, and cost analytics.
- Build unified dashboards covering latency, uptime, CPU/mem/disk, and FinOps metrics.
Phase 4: MLOps & Intelligent Automation
- Deploy TensorFlow CIFAR training workloads on GKE (GPU-enabled).
- Integrate Terraform Cloud, Crossplane, and Backstage for advanced orchestration.
- Build self-healing pipelines and AI-assisted drift detection utilities in Go.