Projects

Platform

Kubernetes Platform Operations

Operational work for production Kubernetes environments, including upgrade planning, node lifecycle, access patterns, backup expectations, and readiness checks.

Rancher-managed fleet organization and cluster standards.
Upgrade sequencing, rollback planning, and maintenance windows.
Namespace, ingress, storage, and policy conventions that reduce drift.

Platform

Cloud Based Platforms

Cloud platform work focused on reliable foundations for infrastructure, application delivery, identity, networking, and operational visibility.

Account, project, subscription, and environment organization.
Networking, IAM, logging, and guardrails for platform teams.
Operational patterns that can later be broken down by provider and discipline.

Virtualization

vCenter Platform Administration

VMware vCenter work focused on stable virtualization foundations for application teams, platform services, and infrastructure automation.

Cluster, datastore, network, template, and permission hygiene.
Operational runbooks for VM lifecycle, capacity review, and incident response.
Integration points for Terraform, Packer, Kubernetes nodes, and backup workflows.

Security

Secrets Management With Vault

HashiCorp Vault deployment and operations work for centralizing secrets, tightening access, and giving teams safer ways to consume credentials.

Vault deployment, initialization, unseal expectations, and operational runbooks.
Policy design, authentication methods, and secrets engine organization.
Token, lease, audit, backup, and recovery practices for production use.

Infrastructure

Terraform Infrastructure Modules

Reusable Terraform patterns for infrastructure changes that need clear ownership, reviewable plans, safe promotion, and consistent state management.

Refactoring a vSphere Terraform repo into environment roots and shared modules.
Module boundaries that match operational ownership.
Plan review practices that improve change visibility before apply.

Images

Packer Image Pipelines

Machine image builds for repeatable VM and node provisioning, with validation gates before images are published for downstream use.

Base image hardening, patch cadence, and template retirement.
Versioning that supports rollback, auditability, and change history.
Validation steps for boot, access, agents, and baseline configuration.

Delivery

CI/CD Pipeline Design

Pipeline work focused on clear promotion paths, repeatable tasks, controlled credentials, and failure output that helps teams recover quickly.

Validation, planning, and apply stages.
Credential handling, resource design, and branch-based promotion.
Concourse workflows for infrastructure and platform repositories.

Operations

Observability And Incident Response

Monitoring, alerting, and response practices that help operators make decisions instead of only collecting more data.

Actionable alerts, useful dashboards, and clear service ownership.
Log and metric naming conventions.
Post-incident follow-up tied to measurable system improvements.

Refactoring A vSphere Terraform Repo Into Environment Roots And Shared Modules

This project started as a repository cleanup and turned into a clearer operating model for vSphere infrastructure. The original Terraform repo had grown into a collection of copied root modules. Each site and environment had its own directory with a familiar set of files: main.tf, variables.tf, output.tf, terraform.tfvars, vars.auto.tfvars, vars.env, local state files, and copied templates. That worked while the repo was small, but it made every change harder to review. ...