What I’m up to right now

Kubernetes & cloud-native everything

Finally taking the time to properly understand container orchestration beyond “docker-compose up”. Service mesh, operators, CRDs and all the things that seemed foreign before are starting to click.

System design at scale

Reading “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” and having those lightbulb moments where distributed systems concepts finally make sense. Also learning the hard way through production incidents.

Go

Most of the tools I’ll be working with as a reliability engineer are written in Go, and being able to read, modify, and contribute to them will be a core part of my job.

Technical

If Anyone Builds It, We All Die

by Eliezer Yudkowsky

For fun

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

by Eric Jorgenson

Health

Lifting 5x/week and daily cardio. I’m not training for anything specific, just building consistency — and I’ve noticed a lot of improvement in my overall energy and mood since I started.

Bowling

Currently holding a 191 average with the Motiv Pride Liberty and Black Widow Mania. Aiming for my second 300 game of the year. Still toying with the idea of joining a league, but for now I’m satisfied bowling casually.

Photography

Weekly adventures with my camera. No agenda, just seeing what catches my eye. Most of my recent photos are landscape and nature, as I’ve grown out of portrait photography.

Chess

Playing chess, online or offline, helps me stay sharp and think several moves ahead. Current ELO of 802 and working my way to 1000.

Amplex

Working with a small team of marketers to build out the Amplex brand and online presence. Managing the automation processes and troubleshooting whatever is keeping the team from scaling has been a rewarding experience.