About me
I’m Luke, a Platform Engineer & DevOps Consultant based in Germany.
My career spans from government‑sized projects to small and mid-scale software development companies.
Core interests
- Full‑stack automation – IaC‑driven provisioning of clouds, bare‑metal hypervisors, container orchestrators and service‑specific resources.
- Platform Engineering & Architecture – service‑tailored full‑stack architecture (cloud, on‑prem).
- Reproducible dev environments – Near‑production sandboxes with built‑in CI pipelines.
- Purpose‑driven microservices – Small, containerised services that extend platform / application capabilities.
Technical Toolbox
- Container Orchestration – Kubernetes (EKS, K3s, Talos), Docker, Podman, ECS
- K8s ecosystem – Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, Operators
- Observability – Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki, Thanos, ELK
- IaC / Config Management – Pulumi, Terraform, AWS‑CDK, Ansible, Puppet Enterprise
- Public Cloud Providers – AWS, Azure, OCI, Hetzner
- Software Development – Golang, TypeScript, Python, PHP
- CI/CD – GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD
- Hypervisor – QEMU/Libvirt, Proxmox, Hyper‑V
- Linux – systemd, cloud‑init, btrfs, SELinux, vfio‑pci, ostree