Welcome to my GitHub! I explore infrastructure, automation, and modern cloud-native tooling through modular and real-world demos.

I'm a Platform Engineer based in Wellington, New Zealand, passionate about automation, cloud-native technologies, and modern development practices. My journey in IT has evolved from a Windows background, starting with physical servers, then virtualization (Windows and Linux), and now fully embracing cloud-native technologies.

I believe in sharing knowledge and building reusable solutions that help others in their journey. I'm actively working on creating modular infrastructure components, reusable workflows, and documentation to make cloud infrastructure more accessible.

• 🔭 My Current Focus

  • Platform Engineering - Building and maintaining developer platforms and tooling
  • Infrastructure as Code - Terraform modules and best practices
  • Cloud Platforms - AWS and Azure architecture and services
  • Containerization - Docker, Podman, DevContainers, ECS, and EKS
  • CI/CD Automation - GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and reusable workflows
  • Developer Experience - DevContainers and development tooling
  • Open Source Contributions

• ✨ Technical Skills

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
  • Containers: Docker, Podman, DevContainers, ECS, EKS
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins
  • Scripting: Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ruby, Go
  • Monitoring: Datadog, Grafana

• 🌱 Continuous learning and adding skills to my toolkit

• ❓ Ask me about AWS, Azure, Terraform, GitHub Actions, DevContainers, Infrastructure as Code, Platform Engineering

• ⚡ Fun fact: Love building reusable infrastructure components and sharing knowledge with the community

• Organizing Committee Member - AWS Community Day Oceania (Inaugural) & AWS Community Day Oceania (2025)
• Website Technical Lead - Created the virtual sub page and revamped the website to the new platform

• Organizing Committee Member - AWS In-Person Community Day
• Speaker - VPC Lattice: Modern Service Networking (2025)

• Committee Member (2025) - AWS User Group Aotearoa
• Speaker - Amazon Q: Boost Productivity with Amazon Q for Development (Wellington Chapter Event) (June 2025)

• Active Volunteer – Predator Free NZ (Manawa Karioi Reserve)

  Contributing to local conservation efforts by setting and maintaining traps, monitoring results, and recording data to support predator control programs. Working with other volunteers to restore native biodiversity in the Manawa Karioi Reserve.

• AWS Lambda Hackathon 2025 — Participant (IAM Policy Guard)

  Built IAM Policy Guard, a serverless tool that analyzes IAM policies to flag risky permissions and promote least-privilege.

• Showcased my entry on The Zacs' Show Talking AWS podcast, hosted by AWS Heroes Arshad Zackeriya and Jones Zachariah Noel N

• Portfolio - A centralized hub for all my GitHub Pages deployments, Terraform modules & providers, and documentation sites.
• Blog on DEV.to - A collection of personal notes and learnings on AWS, Terraform, DevOps, and cloud-native technologies. What started as my own reference material is now formatted and shared publicly, making it accessible and useful for others navigating similar technical challenges.

I maintain several GitHub organizations, each serving a specific purpose:

• actionsforge - Published GitHub Actions and reusable workflows for automation, testing, and infrastructure management
• cloudbuildlab - Cloud infrastructure build labs and experiments
• k8sforge - Reusable Helm charts and Kubernetes configurations

• tfelab - Terraform Enterprise modules
• tfstack - Terraform modules and providers

• platformfuzz - Platform engineering tools, utilities, images, and packages
• serverlessia - Serverless architecture patterns and examples

• jdevto - DEV.to content, blog resources, and working scenario-based Terraform demos

• aws-user-group-nz - AWS User Group Aotearoa (New Zealand) community repositories (maintainer)

Thanks for stopping by! ✨