Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a cloud computing services for infrastructure, data, and AI.
What It Is
Cloud Computing is the delivery of computing services over the internet, enabling scalable and flexible infrastructure. On this site, it matters because it transfers across technical, operational, and venture work instead of staying trapped in one narrow context.
Learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
Homelab and Infrastructure
My homelab is both a workshop and a proving ground.
Photo Sharing Site — Self-Hosted
Built and ran a self-hosted photo sharing platform before cloud storage made it trivial — covering web dev, storage, auth, and the enduring question of how to make a growing photo library actually useful.
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.
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...
Self Beacon Tracking (iBeacon)
Experimented with iBeacon transmitters placed around the house to track room-by-room location before indoor positioning was a product category.
The Homelab
Projects building and operating personal infrastructure — servers, clusters, networks, and the experiments that run on them.
VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi is an enterprise hypervisor for virtualization.
WiFi Security Research — ESP8266 & Rotating MAC Addresses
A proof of concept using ESP8266 microcontrollers to demonstrate that rotating MAC addresses can still be fingerprinted via broadcast SSIDs.