Senior DevOps Engineer | SRE | Platform & Cloud Architect | AI Automation Enthusiast | Professional Bug Whisperer
With 15+ years of turning coffee into infrastructure and teaching humans how not to break things in production, I've mastered the ancient art of keeping systems running while simultaneously explaining why we can't just "restart everything" to fix that one weird bug.
- DevOps Engineering: Making deployments so smooth, they're practically frictionless
- Site Reliability Engineering: Keeping the lights on (and the alerts quiet)
- Platform Engineering: Building platforms so good, developers actually want to use them
- Cloud Architecture: Designing cloud solutions that scale better than my coffee addiction
- AI-Powered Automation: Applying AI agents to eliminate manual toil and optimize operations
- Teaching: Spreading the gospel of "Infrastructure as Code" and "No, we don't SSH into production"
- 🎯 15+ Years of not accidentally deleting production (okay, maybe once)
- 🚀 Zero-downtime deployments that actually had zero downtime
- 📚 Teaching experience - Turning junior developers into infrastructure wizards
- 🔧 Platform architecture that scales without breaking the bank
- 📊 SRE practices that keep SLAs green and engineers sane
"The best infrastructure is the one you never have to think about, and the best teaching moment is right after something breaks in a spectacular fashion."
I believe in:
- Learning through controlled explosions (in dev environments only!)
- Documentation so good, even future-you will understand it
- Automation so thorough, manual work becomes a distant memory
- Making complex concepts accessible without dumbing them down
Currently developing an MVP that uses AI agents to automate uptime monitoring and incident response, eliminating manual monitoring tasks and reducing response times.
- 📖 Teaching: Sharing knowledge and best practices on YouTube channel @chiplonton
- 🤖 AI Automation: Building agents that handle daily operational tasks automatically
- 🔨 Product Development: Creating CuliUptime to transform traditional monitoring workflows
- 🌱 Learning: Latest in Platform Engineering and Developer Experience
- ☕ My monitoring dashboards show coffee consumption metrics alongside system metrics
- 🐛 I've named more production bugs than most people name their pets
- 📚 I can explain Kubernetes networking using only food analogies
- 🎯 My error budgets are more carefully managed than my actual budget
- 🚨 I've achieved the legendary status of "Guy Who Actually Reads the Logs"
🎤 Speaking Topics: Platform Engineering, SRE Best Practices, "Why Your Monitoring is Lying to You"
"There are two types of DevOps engineers: those who have accidentally deleted production, and those who will."
⭐ Fun Repository Alert: Check out my repos for infrastructure templates, deployment scripts, and the occasional script that saves the day (or at least the weekend)!