Content

Recent Videos and Articles Link to heading

• Featured in Mike Vizard’s System Initiative Extends Reach of IT Infrastructure Automation Platform article showcasing my demo that uses SI’s AI agent to convert an Azure AKS Kubernetes cluster to an AWS EKS Kubernetes cluster (2025)
• Author of Inside System Initiative’s Messaging Architecture — revealing an inside look at our distributed messaging layer for all SI backend services (2025)
• Creator of System Initiative on the Steam Deck — showcases SI and all its infrastructure management features running on the Steam Deck (255+ views¹) (2025)
• Podcast Guest on Never Rewrite Episode 105: A Core Engine Rewrite with Nick Gerace (Apple Podcasts, Spotify) — documenting the journey to co-architecting SI’s engine layer, which is still in use today (80+ views¹) (2025)
• Speaker for “Skyrim Saved My Codebase And Can Save Yours Too” at DevIgnition 2024 — at talk on domain-driven design and how we maintain our monolithic repository at System Initiative (1,080+ views¹) (2024)
• Weekly Demos on the System Initiative YouTube channel (ongoing)

More Videos Link to heading

• Co-speaker for “It’s time to rebuild DevOps” at the RTP Programmability and Automation Meetup (100+ views¹) (2023)
• Co-Host and Guest Presenter for SUSE Summer is Open: Rust Cloud Native (430+ views²) — this video is now private (2021)
• Host for the Rancher Labs Master Class: Scaling Kubernetes Nodes from Rancher (5,350+ views¹) (2021)

Audio-only Interviews Link to heading

• Speaker for Cloud Native Rust: Let’s Talk, hosted by David Flanagan (2022)
• Podcast Guest on the Tech ONTAP Podcast Episode 245: Containers, Kubernetes and Automation in Dev and QA at NetApp (2020)

Features Link to heading

• Interviewed and Featured for an Wake Forest University OPCD Alumni Feature (2021)
• Interviewed and Featured for an Wake Forest University Computer Science Alumni Feature (2020)

Articles Link to heading

• Author of All Things Open 2021: Rust Cloud Native and Working on Open Source Projects at SUSE

Other Link to heading

• Attendee and Open Spaces Leader (“Moving Past Infrastructure as Code”) at DevOpsDays DC 2023
• Panelist for the WFU CS Colloquium: Recruiting & Technical Interview Panel (2022)
• Speaker at SUSECON 2021
• Technical Host (instruction by Ferrous Systems) for SUSE Hack Week 2021’s Rust Bootcamp
• Panelist for the 2021 Wake Forest University STEM Slam
• Keynote Speaker of the 2020 Wake Forest University STEM Slam