Talks

From Homelab to Production

How would I migrate my homelab workloads to production?

18 Sep 2024 @ 4:00 PM London, UK

Video

Single-purpose CDN

Why we started building our single-purpose CDN?

16 Aug 2024 @ 11:00 AM Online

Video

Dagger beyond CI/CD

Advanced Dagger functionalities beyond typical CI/CD workflows

3 Jul 2024 @ 5:30 PM Online

Video 🇨🇭Dagger Switzerland

Experience

Solo Content Creator

Make it Work

2024 – Present

Movies for infra nerds: makeitwork.tv
Infra podcast: makeitwork.fm
Next.js, Go, Talos.dev, Bunny.net, DaVinci Resolve, Riverside.fm & Canva.com

Head of Infrastucture

Dagger

2022 – Present

Setup & managed the infra team
Owner of status.dagger.io
Lead releasing + blog
Kept dagger/dagger pull requests flowing
Set up weekly auto-releases
Helped launch Dagger v0.2.0, Project Europa
Go, BuildKit, GitHub Actions, BetterStack, AWS EKS & Fly.io

Staff II Software Engineer

VMware

2020 – 2022

Shipped Tanzu RabbitMQ, the commercial edition of RabbitMQ
Championed the monorepo alternative to 44 repositories, one per plugin
Invested in Basecamp to improve remote work & have healthier conversations
Created TGIR, a monthly RabbitMQ video series
Battle-hardened RabbitMQ on Kubernetes
906 rabbitmq-server commits
Erlang, RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure & GCP

Infrastructure Team

Changelog

2016 – Present

Owner of status.changelog.com
Talking about changelog.com improvements every 3 months
Hosted 90+ infrastructure-related episodes
New changelog.com setup for 2020: Blog post + Episode #419
New changelog.com setup for 2019: Blog post + Episode #344
Open-sourced the code behind changelog.com infrastructure
Set up the initial changelog.com infrastructure: Episode #254
Elixir, PostgreSQL, Dagger, Neon.tech, Cloudflare R2, Fastly.com & Fly.io

Principal Software Engineer

Pivotal

2015 – 2020

Acquired by VMware
Contributed observability to RabbitMQ via Prometheus & Grafana
Set up long-term RabbitMQ observability
Captured baselines for various RabbitMQ workloads
Helped put together the RabbitMQ continuous delivery system
Ensured that the RabbitMQ continuous delivery system is observable
Made RabbitMQ count memory correctly
Optimised Erlang VM memory allocators for RabbitMQ
Improved Erlang ERL-430, ERL-448, ERL-959 & PR #2270
Helped Pivotal enterprise customers succeed with RabbitMQ
Erlang, RabbitMQ, Concourse, BOSH, vSphere, AWS & GCP

CloudFoundry & BOSH Consultant

CloudCredo

2014 – 2015

Acquired by Pivotal
Anchored the first IBM Bluemix Garage in Europe
Contributed to Comic Relief 2015 via the CloudCredo Platform
Helped deliver the CloudCredo Platform
Was part of the team that kicked off Pivotal Cloud Foundry Services
Ruby, Golang, Concourse, CloudFoundry, BOSH & vSphere

Ruby Consultant

FreeAgent

2014 – 2014

Built the SOA foundation for de-composing a mighty Rails monolith
Used RabbitMQ for event distribution & Elasticsearch for indexing
Proposed Fluentd as an alternative to Not Invented Here (NIH)
Ruby on Rails, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch

Lead Engineer

How Are You?

2012 – 2014

Hired & lead the entire technical team
De-composed a Rails monolith into many microservices
Set up all infrastructure on AWS with Chef (OSS cookbooks)
Set up continuous deployment with Jenkins
Blogged about using Jenkins with Docker for continuous deployment
Ruby, MySQL, Redis, Jenkins, Chef & AWS

Senior Software Engineer

GoSquared

2011 – 2012

Built a dozen Ruby microservices, mostly in EventMachine/Goliath
Set up and configured Graphite as the primary analytics data store
Managed a hybrid infrastructure with Chef (OSS cookbooks)
Created a better alternative to Capistrano, deliver
Inspired the Elixir & Erlang deployment tool edeliver
Mitigated a botnet attack with awk + iptables
Ruby, node.js, MySQL, Redis, Graphite, RabbitMQ, Chef & AWS

Software Engineer

Paper Cavalier

2010 – 2011

Rewrote an Amazon arbitrage engine from PHP to Ruby
Kept ~350mil Amazon book offers in sync with Amazon API limits
Managed a hybrid infrastructure with gchef
Blogged about knife integration with AWS
Ruby, EventMachine, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Chef & AWS

Front-end Developer

1 Click 2 Fame

2009 – 2010

Took ownership of the JS & CSS for the main Merb app
Wrote my first JS unit tests in the framework that inspired mocha
Built an iTunes carousel clone in plain JS and CSS
Promoted CSS 3 transformations and animations
HTML, CSS, Prototype.js, Merb, MySQL, Capistrano

Ruby-on-Rails Developer

Jobsgopublic

2008 – 2009

Worked on one of the busiest Ruby on Rails sites of its time
Solved all memory leaks by migrating from Mongrel to Passenger
Set up zero-downtime deployments
HTML, CSS, Prototype.js, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Capistrano

Front-end Developer

Ultraspeed Group

2007 – 2008

Designed and developed websites for various departments
Worked on the in-house PHP & MySQL customer portal
Migrated customer portal to Ruby on Rails
HTML, CSS, jQuery, Zend, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, cPanel

Front-end & Back-end Developer

Freelancer

2003 – 2007

Promoted the use of CSS on Hayes & Finch microsites
Spearheaded AJAX in plain Javascript - a revoluion at the time
Wrote PHP 4 & MySQL 3 with no frameworks, not even Zend
Developed one of the most popular Textpattern plugins
I still do web hosting for websites that I have built in early 2000s
HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, MySQL, Textpattern, Plesk