Data Warehouse for Cloud Compliance Verification
Built a compliance data warehouse for an In-Q-Tel portfolio company using AWS Glue, Spark, and S3. The system automated FedRAMP and PCI DSS compliance...
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
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a cloud computing services for infrastructure, data, and AI.
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.
Proxmox Virtual Environment
Proxmox VE is the open-source hypervisor and clustering platform running my homelab — the environment where I test every architecture before recommending it to a client.
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.