Edge Kubernetes, GPU inference, self-hosted AI, productionised network automation, and the infrastructure rigour that ties it together - each with the problem, the design, and the outcome.

DOSSIER / 001

Single-Touch Edge AI Platform →

Outcome Turned a high-level edge-AI design into a single-touch deployment running on Kubernetes at the store edge.

• Kubernetes
• Edge
• NVIDIA GPU
• CD pipelines
• Helm
• Python

Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer · Woolworths · 2025 - Present

DOSSIER / 002

Self-Hosted AI & Homelab Platform →

Outcome A homelab - GitOps from bare metal to local AI, and the platform that serves this very site.

• Talos
• OpenShift
• Argo CD
• Proxmox
• Local LLM
• Cloudflare Tunnel

Owner / Operator · Ongoing

DOSSIER / 003

IaC Fleet Automation →

Outcome Stood up identical edge sites from code - every store comes up the same way, every time.

• Ansible
• AWX
• GitOps
• ACR / NVCR
• Image pre-pull
• Secrets mgmt

Automation Engineer · 2025 - Present

DOSSIER / 004

The Exploded Cluster →

Outcome A scroll-driven teaching site that takes container platforms apart one machine at a time.

• Dependency-free static build
• GSAP ScrollTrigger
• Strict CSP
• Cloudflare Tunnel
• Argo CD
• zot mirror

Author / Engineer · 2026

DOSSIER / 005

The Mirror: A Pull-Through Registry →

Outcome Ended anonymous registry rate-limits across a six-node fleet, then published the failure modes the deployment revealed - including the one that contradicted my own first write-up.

• zot v2.1.17
• Talos Linux
• containerd
• OCI distribution
• Argo CD
• External Secrets

Author / Engineer · 2026

DOSSIER / 006

GPU-as-Code on the Edge →

Outcome Brought GPUs online as code - passthrough, init-gated at startup, and reproducible across the fleet.

• GPU passthrough
• ESXi
• DCGM Exporter
• Prometheus
• Bash
• Watchdogs

Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer · 2025 - Present

DOSSIER / 007

Global Infrastructure Modernisation →

Outcome Modernised a global, multi-region estate at scale - ~1,000 VMs, flat-to-segmented networks, and a migration to Azure and Microsoft 365 - on a live 24/7 business.

• VMware / vSphere
• Azure (Blob, AVS)
• Microsoft 365
• SD-WAN
• Aruba ClearPass
• Palo Alto / FortiGate
• Veeam

Infrastructure Engineer · Virtus Health & Linde Asia Pacific · 2019 - 2025

DOSSIER / 008

Network Automation at Fleet Scale →

Outcome Took a multi-region switch fleet from hand-managed to single-pane - automated config backup, bulk change in minutes, and credentials secured and rotated.

• Unimus (NCM)
• Config backup + restore
• Config diffs
• Bulk config push
• Credential vaulting + rotation
• Multi-vendor switching

Global IT Infrastructure Engineer · Linde Asia Pacific · 2019 - 2022