DevOps / Cloud Engineering
AWS-focused cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering work.
For the past four years, I've worked on Altis Cloud, running AWS based single tenant WordPress Enterprise platforms serving roughly 100 million requests per day across customer environments.
Interested in discussing DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or operational reliability? I'd love to hear from you.
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Reducing Terraform Drift in Production
Eliminating noisy plans by fixing provider edge cases, state mismatches, and unsafe defaults to make applies predictable again.
Shipping Log Shipping: From Spike to Customer Environment
End to end ownership of a production feature, from design through rollout, touching infrastructure, backend, frontend, and documentation.
Why ECS Task Definitions Kept Changing on Every Apply
Debugging persistent drift caused by subtle JSON key ordering differences between Terraform state and the AWS API.
Working Around a Long Standing Terraform AWS Provider Bug
A constrained workaround using null_resource to restore idempotency while waiting on an upstream provider fix.
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Passed AWS Solutions Architect Associate
December 16, 2025
Finally passed AWS SAA-C03 after years of delays, with some notes on the exam and what's next.
New Role: Cloud Engineer at Human Made
December 6, 2021
I recently joined Human Made as a Cloud Engineer. The application process spans a few weeks and I was super anxious with the whole thing. I…