Tools & Technologies

A working reference of tools, platforms, and technologies I have experience with across infrastructure, DevOps, cloud engineering, and open source work. This list is not exhaustive – it reflects what has shown up repeatedly in real engagements and personal projects.

Cloud Platforms

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Microsoft Azure
• Linode / Akamai Cloud
• Bare metal and co-location

AWS services: EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, S3, EBS, ECR, RDS, Route 53, CodeArtifact, IAM, CloudWatch, NAT Gateway, Elastic IPs, VPC

GCP services: GKE, GCE, GCS, Artifact Registry, Cloud DNS, Cloud NAT, IAM, Persistent Disks, VPC, Cloud Run

Containers & Orchestration

• Docker / Docker Compose

• Podman / Podman Compose

• Kubernetes (K8s)

• Helm

• ArgoCD

• Amazon ECR / GCP Artifact Registry / GitLab Container Registry

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform
• Pulumi
• Helm (chart authoring and values management)
• Kubernetes manifests (YAML)
• cloud-init

CI/CD & Automation

• GitLab CI/CD
• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• ArgoCD ApplicationSets
• Bash scripting
• Python scripting
• APT hooks and DKMS integration (Debian/Ubuntu)
• systemd units, timers, and drop-ins

Networking & Security

• Cloudflare / cloudflared
• Tailscale (Kubernetes Operator, subnet routing, exit nodes, ACL management)
• OpenVPN
• Let’s Encrypt / ACME (cert-manager)
• AWS Route 53 (DNS management)
• external-dns
• WireGuard
• iptables / nftables

Observability & Logging

• rsyslog
• systemd-journald
• logrotate
• Datadog
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Splunk
• Graylog
• AWS CloudWatch

Databases & Storage

• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• Redis
• ZFS (OpenZFS – pools, datasets, snapshots)
• AWS S3 / GCP GCS (object storage)
• AWS EBS / GCP Persistent Disks (block storage)
• AWS RDS

Identity & Authentication

• JumpCloud (LDAP, OIDC, SSO)
• Google Workspace (OAuth, OIDC)
• AWS IAM
• GCP IAM
• ArgoCD Dex (LDAP, OIDC connectors)
• Tailscale ACL and identity policies
• Let’s Encrypt (TLS automation)

Operating Systems

Linux distributions:

• Ubuntu (Server and Desktop, LTS focus)
• Linux Mint
• Debian
• Armbian (ARM64 single-board computers)
• Alpine Linux (containers)
• OpenIndiana / OpenSolaris (ZFS, early production use)

Other:

• macOS (developer workstation)
• FreeBSD / NetBSD
• Windows Server

Hardware & Embedded

• x86_64 (Intel and AMD)
• ARM64 / AArch64
• RockPro64 (Pine64, RK3399)
• Radxa Rock series
• Raspberry Pi
• Rack-mount server hardware
• IoT devices
• Hypervisors: ESXi, KVM, QEMU, VirtualBox, UTM

Version Control & Collaboration

• Git
• GitLab (self-hosted and SaaS)
• GitHub
• GitLab Container Registry
• GitHub Container Registry

Programming & Scripting

• Bash / shell scripting
• Python
• Go (reading and navigating large codebases, targeted contributions)
• YAML / HCL (Terraform) / Jsonnet

Package & Artifact Management

• AWS CodeArtifact
• GCP Artifact Registry
• npm / PyPI
• DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support)
• apt / dpkg (Debian package tooling)
• Homebrew (macOS and Linux)