01.About
Senior DevOps Engineer with a background in political science and data science, now focused on FinOps and DevSecOps across Azure, GCP, hybrid on-prem, and bare-metal/VPS environments.
- —Background: political science, then three years in data science, then five in DevOps
- —Spent much time embedded with development teams, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- —Focus: FinOps and DevSecOps
- —Taught R programming and general coding fundamentals on a voluntary basis
FinOps
- Cost allocation & tagging
- Azure Cost Management
- GCP Billing / Cost Management
- Infracost
- Budget alerts & forecasting
- Rightsizing
DevSecOps
- IaC scanning (tfsec / Checkov)
- Container scanning (Trivy)
- SAST / DAST
- Policy-as-code (OPA / Gatekeeper)
- Secrets management
- CIS benchmarks
Core DevOps
- CI/CD
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Server management (Hetzner / bare-metal)
- Observability (Prometheus / Grafana)
- LLM / RAG infrastructure
02.Projects
A few case studies — anonymized, structure kept close to the real work: the problem, the approach, and the measurable outcome.
Cloud Cost Visibility & Tagging Overhaul
Rebuilt cost allocation from scratch so every team could see — and own — what they spend.
- Azure Cost Management
- GCP Billing
- Terraform
- Tagging Policy
Shift-Left Security in CI/CD Pipelines
Moved security checks from a pre-release gate to every pull request, without slowing teams down.
- Trivy
- tfsec
- GitHub Actions
- SAST
LLM Assistant: Cost & Compliance Driven
Replaced unmanaged, ad-hoc AI tool spend with a hybrid hosted LLM + RAG assistant — bringing cost visibility and data-handling compliance in one move.
- LLM
- RAG
- FinOps
- Compliance
- Access Control
- Self-hosted
03.Side Projects
Built in my spare time, sites are live and in use. Comments or requests are much appreciated.
04.Contact
Always ready for projects on the side. Open to discussing:
- —Cloud cost management
- —Pipeline security
- —Infrastructure architecture
- —General DevOps / CI-CD consulting