Platform & Site Reliability Engineer | Cloud-Native | Kubernetes | Terraform | Go | GCP | 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.
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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Stack: Golang, MacOS

• Structured Go learning repository: fundamentals → intermediate → advanced
• Demonstrates CLI tooling (tax/tip calculator with closures), structs, methods, and higher-order functions 🧾 Full logs, screenshots, and debugging notes across 30+ exercises

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