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System Status: 9+ Clusters Operational

A Engineer

Learning and building for a decade, 5 years professional experience operating production infrastructure. 9+ Kubernetes clusters with 4 years zero downtime. Shipped FedRAMP and PCI-DSS compliant systems.

4 YEARS ZERO DOWNTIME
9+ K8S CLUSTERS

Professional Experience

Wafercode Inc.

Founder & Principal Engineer

Jan 2023 - Present
  • 9+ Kubernetes clusters with 4 years zero downtime
  • Talos Linux, Flux, ArgoCD, GitOps
  • Custom Rust/Axum usage calculator API on VictoriaMetrics
  • PCI-DSS and CIS hardening with Ansible, OpenSCAP

Acquia Inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2024 - May 2024
  • FedRAMP compliance audit — delivered ahead of schedule
  • Consolidated 7+ EKS clusters into multi-tenant platform
  • Re-architected CI/CD pipelines — 15% runtime reduction
  • 30% reduction in security alert volume with SAST/Trivy

Upwork (Freelance)

Top Rated Engineer

Oct 2022 - Jan 2024
  • 50+ engagements, 100% job success, $40K+ revenue
  • Cacti-to-Zabbix migration with TimescaleDB
  • Proxmox hypervisor infrastructure with REST API
  • ELK + Prometheus — 60% cost reduction

hub Kubernetes & Containers

DockerKubernetesTalosRKE2
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:
  • • 9+ production clusters across Talos Linux with Flux/ArgoCD GitOps
  • • Custom Rust/Axum usage calculator API on VictoriaMetrics
  • • 7+ EKS clusters consolidated into multi-tenant platform at Acquia

CI/CD & GitOps

JenkinsArgoCDFluxGitHub Actions

• Jenkins → ArgoCD/Flux migration reducing deployment time from hours to minutes

• GitOps with GitHub Actions + Terraform across AWS, GCP, Hetzner

• 15% pipeline runtime reduction at Acquia

cloud Cloud & Virtualization

AWS (EKS)GCPOpenStackProxmox

• AWS EKS, GCP, OpenStack, Proxmox hypervisor infrastructure

• Custom Proxmox REST API for VM lifecycle management

• Proxmox live migration and automated workflows

monitoring Observability & Monitoring

PrometheusGrafanaVictoriaMetricsLokiOpenTelemetryELKZabbix

• VictoriaMetrics for real-time resource usage reporting

• OpenTelemetry distributed tracing at scale

• Cacti-to-Zabbix migration with TimescaleDB backend

• ELK + Prometheus — 60% cost reduction for clients

security Infrastructure as Code & Security

TerraformAnsibleOpenSCAPVaultDexHydraeBPFPFRINGSuricata

• Terraform + Ansible for automated provisioning

• PCI-DSS and CIS hardening with OpenSCAP

• Vault, Dex, Hydra for secrets and auth

• 95% reduction in provisioning time

lan Networking & Storage

WireGuardHAProxyNGINXCoreDNSCiliumCalicoCephS3PostgreSQLTimescaleDBRedis

Networking Highlights

  • • eBPF, PFRING, Suricata for inline IDS/IPS at line rate
  • • WireGuard mesh VPN, HAProxy, NGINX
  • • Cilium/Calico for L7 policy and service mesh
  • • SNIProxy + c-ares for geolocation routing

Storage Highlights

  • • Ceph distributed storage across 5-node cluster
  • • 30TB encrypted backup infrastructure
  • • PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB at scale
  • • Redis caching for high-performance apps