Routing systems (BGP, etc.)
Distributed decision systems determine network paths based on policy and topology, balancing reachability, performance, and control.
What It Is
Cloud Infrastructure is the foundational components required to build and operate cloud-based systems. 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
In My Own Words
“Knowing how these systems work with other systems, and which tools and sub-products should be chosen and not used — that’s a big part of it. I can steer clients away from technology that looks like it might work but won’t actually work for their application.” Full transcript on the AWS page.
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.
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.
Storage systems
Persistence layers provide durability, availability, and performance through replication, partitioning, and tiering.
The Homelab
Projects building and operating personal infrastructure — servers, clusters, networks, and the experiments that run on them.
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.