Cloud Infrastructure

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.

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.

Distributed decision systems determine network paths based on policy and topology, balancing reachability, performance, and control.

A multi-year initiative to scale a cloud-native, serverless loan management platform on AWS for a student and consumer debt company. Wrote Architecture...

Frameworks control access to systems and data across overlapping teams, tools, and projects.

Experimented with iBeacon transmitters placed around the house to track room-by-room location before indoor positioning was a product category.

Persistence layers provide durability, availability, and performance through replication, partitioning, and tiering.

Projects building and operating personal infrastructure — servers, clusters, networks, and the experiments that run on them.

A proof of concept using ESP8266 microcontrollers to demonstrate that rotating MAC addresses can still be fingerprinted via broadcast SSIDs.