Multi-day builds to 15 minutes. Weekly releases to daily.
I build and operate secure, highly available Azure platforms: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and Kubernetes across multi-tenant production environments.
Selected work
Products, tools, and case studies.
KrakenKey
Open-source TLS certificate automation. One-time DNS setup, then certificates in about four minutes, and the platform never sees a private key.
Read the write-up →A homelab run like production, including the outage
Twenty-two Proxmox guests declared in Terraform and deployed by GitHub Actions from encrypted, saved plans. One apply from an open pull request destroyed a production VM, and the pipeline was rebuilt around that.
Atomatize
Turns one long-form piece into a week of posts in the author's own voice, then checks every draft for the patterns that make writing read as machine-made and repairs the ones that do.
Azure backup coverage audit
A read-only CLI that answers "what isn't backed up?" across many subscriptions and tenants, and grades the backups that do exist.
How I work
The parts that do not change between employers.
Remote and async
I work fully remote and coordinate with developers, security, and product owners in writing rather than in meetings.
Infrastructure as code first
Environments are defined in Terraform, Bicep, and ARM so a multi-tenant environment can be rebuilt from source in under 15 minutes.
Security controls in the pipeline
OIDC federated authentication, environment gating, and managed secrets are part of the pipeline, not a review step bolted on at the end.
I own the standard and the incident
I am the technical owner for platform standards, and I lead response and root-cause analysis when production breaks, across network path, firewall, DNS, and application layers.
Certifications
13 current certifications across 7 vendors. Full list on the resume.
Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
CNCF / Linux Foundation
Terraform Associate (003)
HashiCorp
Also certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) · Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) · AWS Solutions Architect Associate · Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) · CompTIA Cloud+ · CompTIA Linux+ · CompTIA Server+ · CompTIA Network+ · Zerto Certified Associate
About
I build the infrastructure other engineers ship on. I started on a support desk in 2020 and worked up through systems administration and Azure consulting into DevOps, so I have been on both sides of the line between development and operations. I design for the people who will run a system after I hand it over.
Mostly, I like automation. Repetitive manual work and avoidable human error bother me, so I would rather spend the time once to put a process into code that is versioned, repeatable, and reviewable. That holds whether it is a multi-tenant production platform on Azure, an on-prem or hybrid network, or my own homelab.
Outside client work I build two products: KrakenKey, an open-source TLS certificate automation platform, and Atomatize, which turns long-form writing into social posts in the author's own voice. My homelab runs the way I think production should: defined in Terraform, deployed by pipelines, and applied only from main.
I am glad to hear from anyone with a hard infrastructure problem, small teams setting up their first production platform, or other engineers and sysadmins who want to compare notes.