Thank you for visiting my GitHub and I hope your day is going well.

My career thus far has been focused on specializing in Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu), Virtualization (VMWare & KVM), and Networking (Layers 2 & 3). I have progressively moved from :

• Helpdesk
• Enterprise Operational Server Support/Administration
• Network Engineering
• Senior System Administration
• Infrastructure Engineering

I currently reside in the Seattle metro area and absolutely love it here.

Ideal roles: SRE, Platform Engineer, or Cloud DevOps Engineer, L4 level.

Primary technological focus: Kubernetes, Go, GCP, Prometheus, GitHub Actions, Backstage, ArgoCD, Istio, Cilium

I am active on here and LinkedIn almost daily, as I am passionate about working in both GCP and with cloud native technologies. It's not work if you enjoy what you do, right?

Please note, I run all my own labs locally in my own environment. I prefer this as not only do I have to set them up myself, but when I break them, I have to fix them.

Additionally, I am a huge proponent of organized, methodical documentation, and strive to have each and every repo I work in and build adhere to this standard.

Thank you again for visiting my GitHub, and if any of this resonates with you, or you have any questions, I would love to connect and speak further, so please do not hesitate to reach out, either here, on LinkedIn, or via email.

Earlier commits were not annotated due to a focus on uploading and documenting work completed while repos were being built. Additionally, I had not yet developed consistent formatting across my various repos. Going forward, as of 08/20/2025, in addition to consistent documentation formatting and tree structure, all commits will be annotated with what is being uploaded.

Below is a roadmap of planned certifications, courses, and projects I am or will be working on. I try to devote 10-15 hours a week to this so ideally this will all be completed in the next 15 months.

├── KCNA
│   ├── Misc S
│   ├── Cleanup Docker repo
│   ├── GCP Infrastructure: Create GCP Account, provision storage
│   ├── Misc L
│   ├── Kubernetes Cluster: Install ProxMox Hypervisor
│   └── Misc J
├── Go (Beginner)
│   ├── Cleanup Kubernetes exercises repo
│   └── Kubernetes Cluster: Provision and configure (4) Alma Linux guests along with VSC
├── CKA
│   ├── Cleanup Python repo
│   └── GCP Infrastructure: Provision VM, install Terraform and configure main.tf
├── Go (Intermediate)
│   ├── Join Kubernetes SIG Networking
│   ├── Kubernetes Cluster: Provision and configure master and (3) worker node Kubernetes cluster on guests 
│   └── GCP Infrastructure: Using Terraform, provision and configure (4) VMs with each having Nginx, VSC and Chrome installed
├── GCP Cloud Digital Leader
│   ├── Kubernetes Cluster: Create, deploy and automate Go scripts
│   └── GCP Infrastructure: Configure DNS management for all VMs
├── GitHub Actions (Course)
│   ├── Kubernetes Cluster: Provision, test and configure Rook-ceph cluster
│   └── GCP Infrastructure: Connect, test and configure Kubernetes cluster to GCP storage bucket
├── PCA
│   ├── Kubernetes Cluster: Provision test and configure containers for the following: Nginx, Prometheus, Python, Loki, Chromium/Ubuntu desktop, Anthropic MCP (Ollama), Redis, GitHub actions, MongoDB 
│   └── GCP Infrastructure: Configure Network Security rules
├── Go (Advanced)
│   ├── Kubernetes Cluster: Build out and configure Grafana dashboard for each cluster 
│   └── GCP Infrastructure: Provision and configure GKE cluster across all VMs (5 Node cluster - (1) master, (4) workers)
├── CAPA
│   ├── Kubernetes Cluster: Configure, test and deploy external reachability
│   └── GCP Infrastructure: Configure, test and deploy external reachability
├── GCP ACE
│   └── TBD
├── CBA
│   └── TBD
├── CKS
│   └── TBD
├── ICA
│   └── TBD
├── CCA
│   └── TBD