Hi, I am Kyle M; I'm based in Northern Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C., where my daily role as Staff Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps, Platform, SRE... w/e its called this week). I enjoy working on both the physical aspect of the hardware and the code to manage it all - my coding could improve, so please hold tight as I continue to grow and learn.

Check out my 🌳 linktree for refferals, recommendations and social links!

This is my home office, I am blessed being able to work in this space, what you see here is probably version 7.

MacBooks Daily Drivers

Windows Games :D

Linux Dev Box

Homelab Cluster (3x)

Personal work and entertainment thats going on at home, nothing too special.

• Personal Site (Hugo, Vercel, Node, GitHub Actions)

  Build personal portfolio site for some feature and some photography topics.

• Azure Terraform

  Playing with some Azure credits, doing some testing and building in Azure that I can do in AWS + DigitalOcean.

• Hashicorp Tools

  Been working with Terraform, Vault and other tools from Hashicorp but want to continue to build out my expertise.

Mix areas of learning and continuing studies within the following subject areas;

• Python
• Ansible
• Vault
• Security
• Networking
• Terraform

Checkout the 📓 Learning Notebook for shared information and content on learning from various sources.

Starting to get more onto the conference scene and enjoy meeting up and talking about topics around intrests in system automation, SRE, monitoring, and more.

• DevOps DC
• Velocity Conf

Check out my recommended 💼 Travel Kit for minimizing your carried chargers and cables for work or play!

Future Conferences

• LISA
• OpenCompute
• NANOG

Looking at other conferences this year to attend related to SRE and vendors I work closely with.

Find Me In

Regular travel to following spots where you can commonly find me.

• Baltimore, DC, Philly, NYC ( I95 Corridor , Mid-Alantic)
• Houston / Austin / San Antonio, Texas
• Denver, CO