Software engineer with 10+ years building and deploying web applications on remote teams, now focused on AWS infrastructure, automation, and DevOps.

• cloudlab: AWS infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible: VPC, EC2, DNS, and containerized Go and Python services, built through issues, pull requests, and tagged releases
• homelab: k3s Kubernetes cluster running the same apps, with Postgres, Traefik, Prometheus, and Grafana
• aws-ops-assistant: MCP server and daily AI briefing that reports AWS costs, wasted resources, alarms, and log errors with read-only IAM (in progress)
• ScrubTechNotes: paid iOS app for surgical technologists (Flutter, Supabase), based on my years in the operating room

• DDEV: 6 merged pull requests, including the ddev clean command
• Drupal: co-maintainer of Mass Password Reset and Guardr, security-focused projects

AWS · Terraform · Ansible · Docker/Podman · Kubernetes · GitHub Actions · Go · Python · PHP · Drupal · Linux · Postgres

Practical DevOps and Linux articles at mikebarkas.dev

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