$ whoami

Dean Harkum

$ echo $CURRENT_ROLE

Currently building cloud-native infrastructure and internal developer platforms.
Obsessed with reducing toil, fast feedback loops, and making deployments boring.

$ cat pipeline.yaml

commit

test + lint

build img

terraform

deploy ✓

$ kubectl get status --all

system status

pipeline passing

on-call false

open PRs 3 awaiting review

coffee CRITICAL — refill needed

cluster health all nodes ready

open to work always interested in good problems

$ ls skills/

kubernetes terraform github-actions aws docker prometheus grafana ansible helm linux python bash argocd vault

$ cat sre-metrics.json

UPTIME

99.98%

illustrative

YRS IN DEVOPS

10+

and counting

TABS VS SPACES

tabs.

obviously

$ tail -n 4 til.log

2025-04-28 kubectl diff is a thing — shows you exactly what will change before you apply. Why did I not know this sooner. k8s
2025-04-21 AWS S3 Intelligent-Tiering has a minimum object size of 128KB — anything smaller stays in Standard regardless. Cost optimization gotcha. aws
2025-04-14 terraform graph | dot -Tsvg renders your dependency graph as an SVG. Surprisingly useful for untangling spaghetti modules. terraform
2025-04-07 You can use GitHub Actions cache across branches — just set the cache key without the branch ref. Shaved 4 min off our build. ci/cd

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