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AWS Organizations
Root of trust
Multi-account topology designed as a product, not an accident.
Systems · Motion · Perspective
Architecting Systems.Capturing Perspective.Accelerating Intelligence.
Cloud Platform Architect, AI Builder, FPV Pilot, Photographer.I build systems that move.
01 / Cloud Architecture
A platform is a living system. I design the organism, not the org chart.
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AWS accounts under governance
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of deployments, every week
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of automated workflows
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Control Tower + AFT
Account factory
New accounts vended in minutes — guardrails included, humans optional.
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Terraform
Source of truth
Every resource described, versioned, reviewed and reproducible.
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EKS Platforms
Compute fabric
Kubernetes as a paved road: golden paths, not gatekeeping.
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Security & Networking
Perimeter & spine
Centralized ingress/egress, identity-first access, zero snowflakes.
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FinOps
Economic telemetry
Cost as a first-class signal — visible, attributable, optimized.
$ The goal was never "more accounts." It was an organization where infrastructure vends itself, security is the default, and engineers ship without asking permission.
02 / AI Systems
Intelligence is an orchestration problem, not a chat window.
Move your cursor — the network responds
AGENTS
Agent ecosystems
Not chatbots — operators. Agents that file PRs, reconcile infrastructure drift, and hand work to each other through defined contracts.
WORKFLOWS
Self-improving pipelines
Automation that measures its own failure modes and tightens the loop. Every run leaves the system slightly smarter than it found it.
METAL
Local AI infrastructure
DGX Spark on the desk, open-source models on tap. Inference where the data lives — private, fast, and entirely under my control.
MODELS
Model-agnostic by design
Claude for reasoning, GPT for breadth, open weights for sovereignty. The orchestration layer decides; no single vendor holds the keys.
03 / Flight
The same discipline, at a hundred kilometres an hour.
Off the clock, I fly FPV. Reading the system, committing to the line, trusting the telemetry — it's the same instinct as architecture, just with the ground rushing past. The cinematic side of how I see.
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04 / Photography
After the speed, stillness. The art of observing systems from another perspective.
Everything slows down here. A frame is a system observed at 1/250th of a second — composition is just architecture with light.
24mm · f/8 · 1/250s · 400m AGL
Ridge lines at first light
Infrastructure has topology. So do mountains.
FRAME 01 / 04
35mm · f/5.6 · 1/500s
City grid, golden hour
Sixty thousand people, one routing table.
FRAME 02 / 04
16mm · f/11 · 1/125s · 320m AGL
River delta from above
Nature load-balances better than anything I've built.
FRAME 03 / 04
50mm · f/2.8 · 8s · tripod
Long exposure, night sector
Latency made visible.
FRAME 04 / 04
05 / The Journey
Every role was the same job at a higher altitude: keep the system alive, then make it self-sustaining.
LV.01 — SINGLE SYSTEM
NOC Engineer
Watching the lights. Learning that every outage has a story, and the story is always in the logs.
LV.02 — PIPELINES
DevOps Engineer
From watching systems to wiring them. First CI/CD pipelines, first time deleting a server on purpose.
LV.03 — DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
Senior DevOps Engineer
Kubernetes platforms, networking and security at scale. Owning reliability instead of reacting to it.
LV.04 — CLOUD-NATIVE ESTATES
Cloud Engineer
Deep AWS. Infrastructure as code as a non-negotiable. Architecture decisions measured in years, not sprints.
LV.05 — OTHER PEOPLE'S SYSTEMS
DevOps Consultant
Walking into unfamiliar estates and finding the load-bearing walls. Teaching teams to run what I build.
LV.06 — SYSTEMS OF SYSTEMS
Cloud Platform Architect
Enterprise AWS platform architecture: 60+ accounts, multi-account governance, EKS platforms, AI infrastructure. Designing the thing that designs the things.
- Enterprise AWS platform architecture
- Multi-account governance
- Kubernetes platforms
- Networking & security
- AI infrastructure
06 / Operating Principles
The rules I don't break, because the systems remember.
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Build once. Automate forever.
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Complexity is a liability.
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Visibility creates reliability.
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Systems should explain themselves.
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Automation is leverage.
07 / Mission Control
Open a channel.
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Architecture Consulting
AWS landing zones, multi-account governance, platform strategy.
Cloud.AI.Flight.Photography.All connected
“Everything is a system. The interesting part is learning how they connect.”