Hi there, my name is Robert and I’m a husband, father of three and a software developer for over 20 years now. I love to automate things, programming and clouds (computing clouds - for sure :) ). At my work I follow the path of the Software Craftsman (at least I do my best). Who is that, you can ask? In my opinion Micah Martin described it perfectly in this post. I have been doing and promoting DevOps culture since 2011, and working remotely for just as long. I started my career as a developer, later moved to operations, and these days I work where those two meet.

My day-to-day toolbox:

  • Go - my language of choice since 2018, mostly backend APIs, Kubernetes operators and command line tools,
  • Kubernetes - running production workloads on it for years now (this blog started its life on a K8s cluster too),
  • Terraform / OpenTofu - an early Terraform adopter (since ~2015), recently migrated the environments I work with to OpenTofu,
  • AWS - years of hands-on experience: Lambda, EC2, EKS, S3, Route53, CloudWatch and friends,
  • Python - my go-to for scripts and glue code, a lot of it running as AWS Lambdas,
  • CI/CD - GitHub Actions and Jenkins (including automating Jenkins itself - DSL, pipelines),
  • Podman / OrbStack and containers in general.

In the past I also spent serious time with PHP (Laravel, Symfony), Node.js, SaltStack, Packer and Serverless Framework - they all taught me something, even if they are no longer in daily rotation.

You can find me on GitHub and LinkedIn.

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