I'm a Platform Engineer specializing in building secure, scalable, and reproducible infrastructure for cloud-native environments. My passion lies at the intersection of Kubernetes, GitOps, and security-first architectures β with a particular love for Arch Linux, NixOS, and declarative systems.
name: Taylor location: United States current_focus: - Airgapped Kubernetes deployments with Zarf & UDS - Platform engineering with ArgoCD & Kargo - NixOS-powered reproducible development environments - MLOps infrastructure & pipeline automation interests: - π§ Arch Linux & NixOS enthusiast - βΈοΈ Everything Kubernetes - π Supply chain security & airgapped deployments - π€ ML infrastructure & model serving
Currently building secure Kubernetes clusters for air-gapped and disconnected environments.
My current work focuses on Zarf packages and UDS bundles β enabling organizations to deploy production-ready Kubernetes clusters without public internet connectivity. This involves:
- π¦ Declarative package management for airgapped Kubernetes deployments
- π‘οΈ Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) integration for supply chain security
- π Zero-trust networking with default-deny NetworkPolicies & Istio mTLS
- π Runtime security with real-time threat detection and policy enforcement
- β Compliance automation for highly-regulated environments
| Project | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| π GitOps Tooling Migration | FluxCD β ArgoCD + Kargo for advanced deployment strategies | π’ Active |
| ποΈ IaC Evolution | Terraform vs Crossplane for Kubernetes-native infrastructure | π‘ Evaluating |
| βοΈ NixOS Dev Environments | Reproducible development machines with Nix flakes | π’ Active |
| π Platform Modernization | Staged layers of base services (policy, secrets, service mesh) | π’ Active |
| π― Focus Area | π Details |
|---|---|
| Platform Engineering | Building developer-friendly abstractions over complex infrastructure |
| Declarative Systems | NixOS + Nix flakes for 100% reproducible development environments |
| MLOps | Model serving, feature stores, and ML pipeline automation on Kubernetes |
| Cloud Economics | Cost optimization and resource efficiency in cloud-native environments |
- Enterprise Patterns: Multi-repo GitOps, secrets management, policy enforcement
- Production Ready: HA clusters, automated backups, monitoring, DR
- GitOps: ArgoCD orchestrating 4 repos with app-of-apps pattern
- Sub-millisecond Latency: P99 order latency of 4.3ms on K8s
- Scalable: 13,700+ orders/sec with 3-way sharding
- Lock-free C++: Designed for 100k+ orders/sec
- Multi-asset Settlement: Cross-chain atomic swaps
- Real-time Risk Engine: Sub-second exposure updates
- Event Sourcing: Distributed ledger integration
- homelab-gitops: GitOps configurations
- homelab-infra: Infrastructure as Code
- homelab-monitoring: Observability stack
ποΈ IaC
π CI/CD
π Observability
Repos per Language Most Commit Language
β‘ "In a world of mutable infrastructure, be the Nix flake." β‘