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Work & case studies
How I approach platform problems — the tension, what I owned, the decision, and how it was verified. Buyer-framed; the full field narratives live on OOMKilled.
Production result
Cutting a runaway EKS bill — without selling reliability to do it
A cloud-cost engagement run as an operating model, not a fire sale: right-sizing, Karpenter, and scheduled scale-down, with availability floors that were never up for negotiation.
a multi-site customer-operations company
Migration
Migrating 700+ repositories off GitLab — without turning developer flow into collateral damage
A licensing squeeze forced a weekend cutover from GitLab to self-hosted Gitea. The hard part was never the clone — it was everything Git doesn't contain.
a multi-site customer-operations company
Production result
Recovering a SEV-1 Postgres disaster from a volume Kubernetes had orphaned
A botched rolling restart re-bootstrapped a fresh, empty database over two of three replicas. The only intact copy was a PVC the cluster had orphaned when it scaled down — and we should never have been that lucky.
a production Kubernetes platform