I build the layer product teams build on.

Principal cloud infrastructure engineer. Eighteen years across databases, infrastructure as code, and self-service platforms. Everything here comes from production experience.

Product teams

They ask for a production database the same way they open a pull request.

70+ repositories build on the platform

Platform

80–95% faster than the ticket queue it replaced

Data

<3 min cutover downtime on most of ~50 databases

Writing

All writing

2026

Treating AI Agents Like Infrastructure: Provisioning Hermes Agent with Ansible
Sep 10
Migrating 50 Production Databases to Aurora with Under 3 Minutes of Downtime
Sep 10
20+ AWS Services in One terraform apply — Built for the New Free Plan
Apr 6

2024

Vitess vs Aurora: Making the Right MySQL Scaling Decision
Dec 20

Projects

All projects

No-Code Infrastructure Platform
80–95% faster than the ticket queue it replaced
Aurora Migration Toolkit
50+ databases, most cutovers under 3 minutes
Terraform Module Library
8,000+ module usages across 70 repositories
Vitess Production Deployment
Three years running it in production