About
Hey, I'm Brian — Staff Platform Engineer by day, open source builder and homelab tinkerer by night.
What You'll Find Here
This site is my public notebook — a mix of platform engineering deep-dives, homelab projects, and documentation for the open source tools I build. Main topics:
- Platform engineering — internal developer platforms, developer experience, Terraform, Port.io, SonarCloud, CI/CD, and everything that makes engineering teams move faster
- Open source projects — Greybeard (AI code reviewer), ProxiClaw (personal AI agent), and whatever I build next
- Building in public — documenting Herp Ops, a reptile care SaaS I'm building solo — from architecture decisions to production incidents
- Homelab projects — Kubernetes on Mini PCs, self-hosted services, GitOps, and infrastructure experimentation
- Home automation — Home Assistant, smart home setups, and automation workflows
- Home networking — VLANs, DNS, firewalls, and UniFi gear
Background
By day I work as a Staff Platform Engineer — building internal developer platforms, managing infrastructure at scale, and helping engineering teams ship faster. The tools I reach for at work (Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, observability stacks) are the same ones I run at home, just scaled way down.
Outside of the day job I build open source tools and a SaaS product. Greybeard is an AI code reviewer that models how Staff engineers think about systems. Herp Ops is a reptile care SaaS I'm building from scratch — it's as much a platform engineering case study as it is a product.
Why This Blog?
Writing forces me to think clearly. When I solve something tricky, build something useful, or make a decision I want to remember — I write it down here. Some posts are comprehensive guides, others are quick notes for future reference.
If it helps someone else along the way, even better.
Get in Touch
Always interested in connecting with other engineers, homelab nerds, and open source builders. Reach out on any of the links below.