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🧑‍💻 About Me

I'm a Platform Engineer specializing in building secure, scalable, and reproducible infrastructure for cloud-native environments. My passion lies at the intersection of Kubernetes, GitOps, and security-first architectures — with a particular love for Arch Linux, NixOS, and declarative systems.

name: Taylor
location: United States
current_focus:
  - Airgapped Kubernetes deployments with Zarf & UDS
  - Platform engineering with ArgoCD & Kargo
  - NixOS-powered reproducible development environments
  - MLOps infrastructure & pipeline automation
interests:
  - 🐧 Arch Linux & NixOS enthusiast
  - ☸️ Everything Kubernetes
  - 🔐 Supply chain security & airgapped deployments
  - 🤖 ML infrastructure & model serving

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🔐 Security & Airgapped Deployments

Currently building secure Kubernetes clusters for air-gapped and disconnected environments.

My current work focuses on Zarf packages and UDS bundles — enabling organizations to deploy production-ready Kubernetes clusters without public internet connectivity. This involves:

• 📦 Declarative package management for airgapped Kubernetes deployments
• 🛡️ Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) integration for supply chain security
• 🔒 Zero-trust networking with default-deny NetworkPolicies & Istio mTLS
• 📊 Runtime security with real-time threat detection and policy enforcement
• ✅ Compliance automation for highly-regulated environments

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🚀 Currently Working On

Project	Description	Status
🔄 GitOps Tooling Migration	FluxCD → ArgoCD + Kargo for advanced deployment strategies	🟢 Active
🏗️ IaC Evolution	Terraform vs Crossplane for Kubernetes-native infrastructure	🟡 Evaluating
❄️ NixOS Dev Environments	Reproducible development machines with Nix flakes	🟢 Active
📚 Platform Modernization	Staged layers of base services (policy, secrets, service mesh)	🟢 Active

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📈 Learning & Growth

🎯 Focus Area	📖 Details
Platform Engineering	Building developer-friendly abstractions over complex infrastructure
Declarative Systems	NixOS + Nix flakes for 100% reproducible development environments
MLOps	Model serving, feature stores, and ML pipeline automation on Kubernetes
Cloud Economics	Cost optimization and resource efficiency in cloud-native environments

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🏆 Featured Projects

🏠 Production-Grade Homelab Enterprise Patterns: Multi-repo GitOps, secrets management, policy enforcement Production Ready: HA clusters, automated backups, monitoring, DR GitOps: ArgoCD orchestrating 4 repos with app-of-apps pattern	⚡ HFT Trading Engine Sub-millisecond Latency: P99 order latency of 4.3ms on K8s Scalable: 13,700+ orders/sec with 3-way sharding Lock-free C++: Designed for 100k+ orders/sec
💱 Crypto Exchange Platform Multi-asset Settlement: Cross-chain atomic swaps Real-time Risk Engine: Sub-second exposure updates Event Sourcing: Distributed ledger integration	🔧 More Projects homelab-gitops: GitOps configurations homelab-infra: Infrastructure as Code homelab-monitoring: Observability stack

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🛠️ Tech Stack

🐧 OS
💻 Languages
☸️ Kubernetes
🤖 MLOps
🏗️ IaC
☁️ Cloud
🔄 CI/CD
📊 Observability

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📊 GitHub Stats

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⚡ "In a world of mutable infrastructure, be the Nix flake." ⚡