About Me
I thrive on learning through doing – this website itself is a testament to that philosophy. It's hosted on my homelab Kubernetes cluster where I maintain a full cloud-native DevOps tooling suite to accelerate my capabilities including:
- Eclipse Che- a containerized IDE platform for developer teams
- Jenkins- CI/CD Pipeline, with distributed k8s builds on my edge nodes
- Sonarqube CE- static code analysis and linting
- Harbor- a Container Registry, and security scanner
- Keycloak- my OIDC identity provider
- Kolibri- an open Learning Platform for hosting courses
- Tagia- an Agile project management tool fork the helm chart
While my day job as a Software Engineering Specialist involves building enterprise Java applications, my passion for understanding systems deeply has led me to go beyond typical enterprise development. I redesigned a Java bootcamp for a fully-remote workforce and have successfully onboarded over 100 developers. I also built my company's first DocuSign API integration – automating paper application collection and creating a status service that delivered over a billion dollars in savings for a critical public-service mission.
This hands-on approach has given me unique insights into both the technical and human sides of software development. My goal is to leverage this experience to create technology that serves people well and makes a positive impact. Whether I'm mentoring new developers, optimizing infrastructure, or volunteering my IT expertise to non-profits, I'm driven by the belief that technology should be both powerful and purposeful.
The name 'ethosengine' embodies my core mission. In our digital world, we are saturated with emotional appeals (pathos) and technical justifications (logos), yet what we urgently need is ethos – ethical credibility. Building trust is the hardest thing to do and the easiest to break, especially in an age of information overload. My aim is to build trust into the tools we create, technology that not only functions effectively but also empowers us to live wisely.