work
Selected projects and contributions.
A compact ledger of product work, open-source contributions, and platform experiments worth pointing back to.
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HSA Butler
My learning playground for building a real product end to end, and a personal tool used by me and a couple of friends. It organizes HSA expenses, receipts, tax-year context, and assistant-backed review workflows while giving me a place to practice product, AWS, frontend, backend, and AI implementation work.
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Venafi Vault PKI plugin
Contributed a revocation-path fix that separated Vault API input, plugin storage lookup behavior, and Venafi connector semantics so Cloud revocation can use the right certificate identifier.
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Istio and ambient mesh work
Hands-on Istio and service-mesh projects around ambient mesh, mTLS/Lua filter experiments, and policy patterns for user-token and automation-token authorization. A larger Istio project writeup is coming here next.
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OpenShift and Kubernetes infrastructure
Architecture notes and prototypes around OpenShift app-team migration paths, StorageGRID/S3 access, CSI storage mechanics, and the practical boundary between platform abstractions and application code.
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OpenMeshGuard
An open-core service mesh governance and posture platform starting with Istio. The concept focuses on continuously verifying mTLS, authorization, gateway exposure, ownership, exceptions, drift, lifecycle, and audit evidence across clusters.