The caps lock key, which I remapped to control, got a crack in it because I use it a lot. Worst of all, it doesn't stay pressed, depending on its mood. So maybe I'm pressing ctrl-a to get to the beginning of a line and it decides to type the letter a instead.

I really wanted to like it, but alas, the quality was too bad and I won't buy another one.

  Location: Atlanta, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Rust, Zig, any CI/CD system. AWS and GCP.
  Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/142HbgfYmFBUdfbKKzPvEgYC1jdFiKEvTMp67EhOxm0M
  Email: rjosephwright@gmail.com

Hi, I'm Joseph. I have a special love for the cloud and infrastructure as code. I have 20 years experience doing development, systems engineering, DevOps, and data engineering. I've worked with companies to greatly improve uptime and profits and get their processes under control. I've worked in heavily regulated environments and helped companies prepare for major audits and become certified in frameworks like HITRUST and FedRamp.

My tech stack is largely Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes, Rust, Zig, any CI/CD system. AWS and GCP.

Website: https://cloudboss.co

GitHub: https://github.com/rjosephwright

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjosephwright/

I have 20 years of experience in software development, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD. These days I mostly write Go or Python, but I’ve worked in a range of languages as needed.

Strong Linux background (and other Unixes), AWS experience going back to the early days (when the CLI was a JAR), with time spent in GCP and Azure as well.

Open to interesting problems and even boring ones too, especially if they touch infra, automation, or systems engineering.

GitHub: https://github.com/cloudboss, https://github.com/rjosephwright

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjosephwright/

I have 20 years of experience in development, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD. I'm a polyglot but nowadays I default to Go. Most of my time is spent on Linux and I have experience with other Unixes as well. I've been an AWS customer since 2006, when the cli was still an executable jar, and I have experience in GCP and Azure.

GitHub: https://github.com/rjosephwright

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjosephwright/

I've also written some Terraform modules that deploy machines from images created with easyto.

One is https://registry.terraform.io/modules/cloudboss/airport/aws, for managing Concourse CI.

Another is https://registry.terraform.io/modules/cloudboss/tailscale-su..., to quickly spin up a tailscale instance in a VPC.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lruK2WOWa-o.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40918227

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

I specialize in infrastructure automation and Kubernetes. I'm a polyglot but nowadays I default to Go. Most of my time is spent on Linux and I have experience with other Unixes as well. I've been an AWS customer since 2006 and have experience in GCP.

GitHub: https://github.com/rjosephwright

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjosephwright/

This is so true. It’s very common to see infrastructure being built in terms of the application that will run on it instead of designing the application to run on the infrastructure. A lot of brittle, unmodifiable messes are the result of this.

I specialize in infrastructure automation and Kubernetes. I'm a polyglot but nowadays I default to Go. Most of my time is spent on Linux and I have experience with other Unixes as well. I've been an AWS customer since 2006 and have experience in GCP.

GitHub: https://github.com/rjosephwright

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjosephwright/

Your toolbelt is full of Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Istio. They were supposed to help you, but you're still overloaded with Toil. I can help get your Infrastructure as Code under control and help make machines do most of the Ops, so you can focus on your business problems.

I'm well versed in IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible, general purpose languages like Golang, Python, and C if necessary, and I know when to switch between them. I treat cloud infrastructure as a software problem, because it's fully programmable. I make a point to layer code so most of the effort can be focused on a development cycle that doesn't break production; changes get tested before rolling them out,and an automated pipeline applies actual production changes.

I started my career on bare metal Linux and FreeBSD systems, then moved into AWS and later GCP. I love working in the cloud and on lower level things like firecracker VMs on bare metal.

GitHub: https://github.com/rjosephwright LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjosephwright/