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I've personally grown to hate the security theatre of rotating my bank passwords every six months, especially because of requirements like "must contain one uppercase, one symbol, one lowercase, one special case and the blood of a unicorn."
When mathematically, a simple, grammatically incorrect sentence of 25 characters is much harder for a machine to crack than a gibberish 8-character password with symbols.
Entropy loves length.
I love the idea that the most secure key to your digital life could just be a weird little poem or an inside joke that only you know. Security doesn't have to be painful.
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I’m currently looking for a full-time or contract work in SRE / DevOps / IT Operations.
Portland, OR. Open to hybrid, on-site, or remote. Willing to relocate to Seattle.
Schedule: Any
Tools: Python, Bash, PowerShell, Terraform, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Splunk, Grafana, BigPanda
CI/CD: Jenkins, Bitbucket, container builds with Docker/Podman, deployments to Openshift.
I have worked as an IT Operations Engineer in enterprise production environments, supporting on-prem VMware (RHEL and Windows) alongside Azure and AWS. My role included on-call rotations and incident command for high-severity outages.
My responsibilities included monitoring, alert triage, and root cause analysis across infrastructure and application layers, coordinating with infrastructure, development, and product teams to isolate failures, restore service, and prevent recurrence.
My focus was developing Python tooling for automation and production support, with Ansible used for routine infrastructure tasks.
I worked extensively with Splunk, Grafana, and BigPanda, building dashboards for investigation, event correlation, and metrics and trends.
Additional experience includes:
Terraform for cloud provisioning and Puppet for configuration enforcement
Network troubleshooting across Cisco and Arista environments
Production database support: Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, Postgres
My DM’s are open! Feel free to message me for my resume.
Git: github.com/Aleph0x
Web: al3f.com
