💻 Senior Systems Engineer | Cloud & Automation | Identity | DevOps

I design and support enterprise IT and homelab environments focused on automation, cloud infrastructure, and identity.
My work blends hands-on systems engineering with modern DevOps practices leveraging PowerShell, Terraform, and GitOps to improve efficiency, reliability, and security across hybrid environments.

• Automation & IaC → PowerShell, Python, Bash, Terraform, GitOps (ArgoCD)
• Identity & Access → Active Directory, Entra ID, Okta, Authentik SSO
• Cloud & Infrastructure → Azure, AWS, VMware vSphere (HA/DR), Docker, Kubernetes (K3s)
• Security & Hardening → Intune baselines, Conditional Access, Defender for Endpoint, Tenable remediation
• Monitoring & Observability → Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, ELK Stack, Blackbox Exporter

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A high-level overview of my self-hosted homelab and automation environment, illustrating how services such as
Pi-hole, Caddy, Authentik, Portainer, Grafana, and LocalStack integrate across multiple VMs and containers.

• PowerShell Playbook — Enterprise automation toolkit with PowerShell modules for identity governance, auditing, and system reporting.
  Focused on improving maintainability, patching workflows, and service reliability across Windows environments.

• single-vm-gitops-homelab — Fully automated GitOps homelab built on Docker, Prometheus, and reverse proxy stacks — all managed through Terraform and CI/CD.

• homelab-sso — Identity & Access sandbox demonstrating Authentik SSO integrations for apps like Portainer and Grafana using OAuth2/OIDC.

• monitoring-stack — “Observability in a Box” — Grafana + Prometheus + Loki + exporters, with alerting, dashboards, and self-healing watchdog scripts.

• CafeOps — A whimsical AWS + LocalStack serverless project combining Terraform, Lambda, and API Gateway — proving even coffee deserves CI/CD ☕.

• deepdish-cluster — K3s cluster built via Terraform showcasing hybrid Kubernetes automation and cluster bootstrapping.

• Expanding automation blueprints for hybrid infrastructure
• Enhancing cloud-native designs using AWS & Terraform
• Studying for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam
• Continuing to evolve the homelab into a full GitOps platform

• 💼 LinkedIn
• 📂 GitHub Repos

✨ “A backup isn’t a backup until you’ve restored from it.”
❤️ Made with precision, caffeine, and curiosity.