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Infrastructure built as a product.

Distributed systems, pipeline reliability, and operator-controlled orchestration. The platforms on this site do not run on side-project infrastructure — they run on a coordinated multi-node environment with service separation, monitoring, recoverability, and explicit change discipline.

~25
Proxmox lab nodes operated
8B+
data points pipelined
0
single points of failure tolerated

Four operating pillars

These are how every platform on this site stays reliable, recoverable, and reasoned about.

Distributed systems

A multi-node environment treated as one coordinated product, not a pile of single-server scripts.

  • Roughly 25 Proxmox lab nodes operated as one environment
  • Specialized roles: control plane, application hosts, data tier, GPU workloads
  • Service separation across nodes, not a monolith on one box
  • Internal docker registry, shared observability, planned workload placement

Pipeline reliability

Long-running workloads with checkpointing, fault tolerance, and queue-backed orchestration.

  • Batch and orchestration concerns first-class, not an afterthought
  • Checkpointing and resume points so failures stay recoverable
  • Queue-backed processing instead of inline RPC for heavy work
  • Prometheus / Grafana / Loki observability across the stack

Operator-controlled orchestration

An Agent Coordination System where the operator authorizes every change, not an autonomous scheduler.

  • Single, validated write surface for job submission
  • Local supervisor as the only job launcher; explicit admission policy
  • Explicit phases for runtime change; signed decision records
  • Read-only dashboard, no auto-acknowledged alerts, no broad MCP startup

Implementation discipline

Every change to runtime behavior is scoped, recommended in writing, validated by gates, and reversible.

  • Recommendation-first mode for any change request
  • Protected-file boundary enforced through release certifications
  • Validation gates run before any commit / merge
  • Rollback plan documented before forward action

The fastest way to disqualify infrastructure work is to call it a side project. The honest framing is the opposite: this is what production-style operations actually look like, and I run this end-to-end without hiding the hard parts behind a managed-service wrapper.

Available for evaluation

Work with me on production operations

I take on scoped workflow audits, technical solutions engineering, and fractional implementation leadership — bounded work, clear artifacts, no open-ended consulting.