What I'm Focused on Now
Current interests, projects, and priorities
Last updated: May 2025
Technology I'm Exploring
- SPIFFE/SPIRE - Implementing zero-trust identity for service-to-service communication
- Vault Internals - Deep diving into secrets management and dynamic credentials
- Platform Engineering - Exploring developer experience and platform maturity models
- Service Mesh - Evaluating Istio and Linkerd for production workloads
Personal Projects
- Terraform Provider - Building a simple provider in go to learn more about the terraform design
- Home Automation - Setting up Home Assistant with custom automations
- 3D Printing - Designing and printing functional parts for home and office
- Vault and Queues - Building a simple vault and queue service to have these in my own infrastructure without any external dependencies and bloated features
Learning Goals
- Security Architecture - Deepening understanding of zero-trust principles and implementation in practice as well as how to move from legacy to modern security architectures
- Platform Maturity - Studying organizational models and platform team structures
- System Design - Exploring distributed systems patterns and trade-offs
- Technical Writing - Improving documentation and knowledge sharing practices
Personal Priorities
- Reading - Focusing on technical books, blogs and system design literature
- Community - Contributing to open source and mentoring others
- Cooking - Playing around with new recipes and ingredients with my kids