DevOps / Cloud Engineering
AWS-focused cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering work.
Four years running AWS infrastructure for enterprise WordPress platforms. About 100 million requests per day. I came from web development and I still work across the stack when the work calls for it.
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November 11, 2025
Shipping Log Shipping: From Spike to Customer Environment
How a feature goes from research to a customer's environment, touching infrastructure, backend, frontend, and documentation along the way.
November 3, 2025
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.
November 3, 2025
Working Around a Long Standing Terraform AWS Provider Bug
A CloudFront origin_shield drift issue, a dynamic block that made it worse, and a null_resource workaround while waiting on an upstream fix.
October 25, 2025
Reducing Terraform Drift in Production
Eliminating noisy plans by fixing provider edge cases, state mismatches, and unsafe defaults to make applies predictable again.
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Passed AWS Solutions Architect Professional & DevOps Engineer Professional
March 28, 2026
Two AWS Professional certifications in two months. SAP in February, DOP in March. Notes on the exams, impostor syndrome, and what's next.
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…