Platform & Infrastructure Engineer · Homelab tinkerer
Hey, I'm Patrick
Platform and infrastructure engineer. I automate things so I don't have to do them twice.
I build and run infrastructure, and automate whatever I can so I don’t have to do it twice. At work that’s AWS and GCP. At home it’s hardware I own, running a short list of things I actually trust.
What I care about
The tooling. My setup and dotfiles get me the same environment on every machine: Ansible sets up the box, dotfiles do the shell, and a fresh laptop ends up looking like the old one. 1Password and mise for secrets, alint and Renovate and pre-commit keeping every repo current. I change something once and it shows up everywhere.
The homelab
Two clusters I run and break now and then: an amd64 box for the heavy stuff and a Raspberry Pi cluster for the small always-on things. All the state lives on a TrueNAS box off the clusters, so I can wipe a whole cluster and only lose an afternoon. GitLab CI builds, Flux reconciles, OpenTofu owns the state.
Read more on the blog.