04 — Skills
Tools of the trade.
A snapshot of what I reach for. Always learning, always pruning. See Projects for how these were actually used.
Infrastructure & Cloud
Kubernetes
Docker
Docker Compose
Terraform
Ansible
VM Provisioning
VMware
Windows Server
Linux Administration
WSL
Google Cloud (IAM, Secret Manager)
Enterprise Networking
CI/CD & Version Control
Jenkins
Jenkins Configuration as Code (JCasC)
GitLab CI
Perforce
P4Python
Git
GitHub
YAML Pipelines
Automated Build Pipelines
Pre-Submission Validation
Idempotent Provisioning
AI & LLM Platform Engineering
Retrieval grounding (RAG)
Source precedence & citation
Prompt engineering
Prompt-injection defence
Output allowlisting
Model routing (cheap → strong)
Token & cost telemetry
Spend caps & kill switches
Answer caching & invalidation
Offline evaluation & fixture replay
Staged rollout & shadow mode
AWS Bedrock
Claude
OpenAI-compatible SDKs
MCP
Claude Code
Observability & Operations
Datadog
Logging
Monitoring
Incident Management
Post-Mortems
Root-Cause Analysis
Access Management
Troubleshooting
Scripting & Languages
Python
Type-annotated Python
pytest
uv
Bash
PowerShell
C#
C++
SQL
YAML
XML
Services & Data
Django
REST API integration
PostgreSQL
SQLite
Slack Web API
Slack Workflow Builder
Jira REST API
Confluence REST API
Security & DevSecOps
Secrets Management
HCP Vault / Enterprise Secrets Services
GCP Secret Manager
DPAPI
Credential Scanning & Remediation
Least-Privilege Scoping
Access Controls
Secure Delivery Practices
Developer Experience & Docs
Developer Productivity Tooling
Docs as Code
Runbooks
Technical Writing
Support Deflection Design
Onboarding Automation
Teaching & Mentoring