GitOps & agentic platform engineering. I build systems that deploy, secure, and heal themselves.
From nuclear-missile technician to self-taught cloud engineer. Argo CD, Kargo, Kyverno, Terraform, and a self-built production cluster this very site runs on.
I walked away from nearly twenty years in audio-visual engineering to be present for my daughter, and taught myself cloud engineering from nothing in nine months. In five years I’ve gone from junior to senior. I don’t just work hard at this. I love it.
Maintained Minuteman III missile silos: solid rocket boosters, guidance systems, propulsion, and warheads. Held a Top Secret clearance. Learned precision and discipline where mistakes aren’t an option.
Nearly two decades engineering audio for churches, corporate events, and touring entertainment. Then COVID crashed the industry, my daughter was eight, and I had an epiphany: I wouldn’t miss the next eight years.
Nine months of self-taught study, day and night, landed my first DevOps role. Five years later I’m a Senior Cloud Engineer building Argo CD GitOps platforms and agentic infrastructure.
"My only regret is that I didn’t find this 20 years ago, but my track record shows I’m a fast learner, self-motivated, and I’ll never stop improving."
Not a metaphor. The page you're reading is served from an 8-node Proxmox + Ceph cluster in my home, GitOps-managed with Argo CD. These numbers are pulled live from the cluster (read-only) and refresh on load.
Everything here I designed, built, and operate on my own cluster. Filter by the tech that matters to you.
An 8-node hyperconverged cluster running live production workloads
Designed and operate an 8-node Proxmox + Ceph cluster (~56 TiB) hosting an HA K3s Kubernetes cluster. Everything is GitOps-managed with Argo CD (app-of-apps), fronted by Traefik and Cloudflare Tunnels. This very site runs on it.
A purpose-built, survivor-led CRM for domestic-violence non-profits
A TypeScript end-to-end CRM (Hono + tRPC + Drizzle) on Postgres with row-level security, pgcrypto PII encryption, and an append-only audit log. Deployed on K3s via Argo CD with a Postgres-native job queue and a scheduled media/podcast pipeline. Compliance-honest by design.
Safety-critical AI communication filtering, in public beta
A FastAPI + async Postgres + Redis backend on K3s with queue workers, integrating Twilio (A2P 10DLC), Claude, Whisper, and Stripe. Scaled by migrating shared audio storage from RWO to RWX CephFS. Application-layer encryption for sensitive content.
A multi-tenant automation platform on Kubernetes
Each customer is an isolated namespace provisioned by a reusable Helm chart (queue-mode n8n, CloudNativePG HA, cache, quotas, NetworkPolicy). A content-hash-triggered Argo CD pipeline auto-deploys workflows; a custom image bakes in a 97% PDF-compression step.
Open-source drive-refurbishment appliance
A FastAPI + asyncio appliance automating NIST 800-88 secure erase across a multi-node fleet with mDNS auto-discovery. A dual-ISO GitHub Actions release pipeline ships two Debian Live images per tag, backed by 793 unit tests plus real-hardware integration tests.
The public home of a domestic-violence protection non-profit
A hardened static site delivered through the same GitOps pipeline as the rest of the platform: custom nginx image built in CI, deployed by a self-registered Argo CD Application, exposed via Cloudflare Tunnel with edge TLS.
RAG-powered document pattern analysis
A FastAPI + Qdrant retrieval-augmented service using Claude and OpenAI embeddings to detect patterns across private document corpora. Containerized and deployed to K3s alongside the rest of the platform.
A fully local AI voice assistant + knowledge base
A self-hosted voice pipeline (wake-word → Whisper → agent → ElevenLabs TTS) with a RAG knowledge base over a personal vault (Ollama embeddings → Qdrant), exposed via CLI, HTTP, and a Model Context Protocol server.
This assistant answers questions about my experience and projects, grounded in my own notes. It's powered by Claude and, fittingly, runs on the cluster it's telling you about.
Open to full-time roles and contract engagements. If you need GitOps, Kubernetes, or agentic platform work done right, I'd love to talk.