Platform engineering, Kubernetes, and observability — currently retiring a legacy auth system service-by-service and building toward AI infrastructure: RAG pipelines, vector databases, and the platforms that keep them reliable.
A self-healing reliability platform built on k3s: full-stack observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, wired to GitHub Actions for automated remediation and deploy pipelines. Designed to answer one question — how much of on-call can a platform absorb before a human gets paged?
read the case studyDecommissioning a company-wide legacy auth service, one dependent service at a time — most recently the auth gateway itself. Scope, migration strategy, and how to retire critical infrastructure without anyone noticing.
read the case studyBuilding retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and evaluating vector databases on local hardware — treating AI systems as an infrastructure problem: latency, reliability, cost, and observability.
notes coming soonAlways-on core of the lab. Runs self-hosted services and acts as the testbed for anything before it earns a place in a real cluster.
Mesh VPN tying every device together — the lab follows me anywhere, which matters when "anywhere" is the plan.
Self-hosted photo management. Because a platform engineer's photos shouldn't live on someone else's platform.
Local compute for AI work — running and evaluating local models, embedding pipelines, and GPU workloads without cloud bills.
I'm a senior platform infrastructure engineer. My day job right now is a long, careful demolition: retiring a legacy authentication system service-by-service, most recently the auth gateway. It's the kind of work where success means nobody notices anything happened.
I'm betting the next few years of my career on the overlap between platform engineering and AI infrastructure — the unglamorous layer that makes RAG systems, vector databases, and model serving actually reliable in production. I'm building that expertise in public, partly on my own hardware.
I'm working toward independent contract work and a location-flexible life. When I'm not staring at dashboards you'll find me traveling, surfing, or on a dance floor somewhere.