Praxis — The Magnolia Homelab
A 4-node Proxmox cluster running Kubernetes, Ceph, site-to-site VPNs to AWS, GitOps pipelines, and a full observability stack — built to test every architecture I recommend to clients.
What It Is
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud computing platform offering infrastructure and services. On this site, it is part of the practical toolset behind building systems that are easier to understand, operate, and repeat.
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React Component IDE and Publishing Marketplace
Built a cloud-based IDE for developing and reusing React components using VS Code Server hosted on AWS ECS — allowing developers to create, test, and publish...
Reliability Engineering Systems (SLI/SLO/SLA)
Systems define, measure, and enforce reliability targets across infrastructure and applications.
Remote Lab for Teaching LabVIEW (Google Meet + AWS Workspaces)
Built a remote learning environment during the pandemic so students could access LabVIEW software and physical lab hardware from anywhere — keeping a robotics program running when everything else shut down.
Routing systems (BGP, etc.)
Distributed decision systems determine network paths based on policy and topology, balancing reachability, performance, and control.
Scaling to Millions of Loan Customers
A multi-year initiative to scale a cloud-native, serverless loan management platform on AWS for a student and consumer debt company. Wrote Architecture...
Security & Permission Systems
Frameworks control access to systems and data across overlapping teams, tools, and projects.
Storage systems
Persistence layers provide durability, availability, and performance through replication, partitioning, and tiering.
What I Want and Need
How what I actually want and need in order to build well, live well, and work in alignment with other people.