Principal Consultant at LinuxTampa, LLC — multi-cloud platform engineering (AWS + GCP + Kubernetes), 15+ years of DevOps/CI-CD/systems engineering, and deep hands-on work with AI-assisted development and AI code review for high-liability codebases.
- 🔭 Currently: platform engineering/DevOps consulting via LinuxTampa LLC
- 📜 Pursuing Anthropic Partner certification
- ☁️ AWS Certified Solutions Architect · AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional · AWS Certified Developer · GCP Professional Cloud Architect
- Aug 28, 2026 — home-motion-detector: Enhanced the home‑motion‑detector with UI navigation for recordings, refined detection sensitivity and MIME handling, resolved GCS upload and image‑pull issues, and applied various bug‑fixes and performance tweaks.
- Aug 27, 2026 — homelab-seed: Managed the homelab‑seed Kubernetes seed repo by configuring GitOps (ArgoCD), OIDC integration, Trivy security scanning, Forgejo CI pipelines, secrets handling, software injection into pods, and backup verification.
- Aug 27, 2026 — terraform-provider-zyxel: Advanced the Zyxel Terraform provider by clarifying naming conventions, documenting usage, and performing repository housekeeping such as renaming, configuration updates, and usage queries.
- Aug 24, 2026 — foolishrelics-videogames: Improved the Foolish Relics game by adding a new MP3 track, fixing bullet positioning and enemy collision logic, addressing arm64 freezes, and updating deployment scripts and embed documentation.
- Aug 19, 2026 — meme-farm: Optimized meme‑farm’s image analysis pipeline by consolidating models, improving GPU utilization through benchmarking and concurrency tuning, setting up NFS storage, integrating with CI/CD, and adding tooling like Pi.dev and Ollama support.
- Aug 13, 2026 — call-relay: Refactored call‑relay from a Cloud Run container to a native Go service running on the vm-wordpress VM, adding health checks, cost estimation, secret cleanup and cross‑platform build support with Windows stubs and npm package maintenance.
- Aug 12, 2026 — dark-reader-aware-theme-toggle-button: Created a demo website for the dark‑reader theme toggle button library, updated documentation, released version 0.1.2, packaged it to npm and added repository tooling such as the GitHub CLI.
- dark-reader-aware-theme-toggle-button — an npm package for a theme toggle that plays nice with the Dark Reader browser extension instead of fighting it.
- terraform-provider-zyxel — a Terraform provider for Zyxel network gear.
- Foolish Relics — an arcade-style browser game, deployed at fr.timjones.com.
- LinuxTampa LLC (2025–present) — Go-based migration of 38TB of dually-encrypted assets to S3 for an overnight cutover; stood up Keyfactor EJBCA for automated SSL cert issuance/renewal.
- Game 7 Staffing / Amazon Robotics (2024–2025) — migrated dozens of TypeScript/Go/Java repos to AWS CDK; integrated Amazon Q and Claude Code as agentic coding assistants while maintaining review rigor.
- McKinsey & Company (2021–2024) — built CI/CD/GitOps/security pipelines for a multi-cloud (AWS EKS/GCP GKE/Azure) IaC platform.