System Design (Scalable Software Architecture)

My homelab is both a workshop and a proving ground.

Container orchestration platforms schedule workloads, manage service discovery, and enforce desired state across clusters of compute resources.

Node.js is a runtime for executing JavaScript on the server.

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.

Postman is an API development and testing platform.

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.

Redis is an in-memory data store for caching and real-time systems.

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.