Platform and infrastructure engineering · 8+ years · Primary language Go

I architected a self-service developer platform from the ground up to drive a large-scale VMware vSphere to OpenStack migration, and I now lead an enterprise golden-image platform and own its identity and authorization layer. I build open-source tooling and write for an expert engineering audience.

GOLDEN-IMAGE PLATFORM

Build, scan (Trivy, OpenSCAP), mandatory approval gate, promote, and multi-region OpenStack Glance distribution. Dual-cloud ephemeral builders (OpenStack and AWS EC2), Dagger-executed builds, DBOS durable workflows, and reliability hardening.

AUTHORIZATION PLATFORM

Hierarchical RBAC on Ory Keto relation tuples, multi-tenant hierarchy, check-time inheritance via Ory Permission Language, a live single-writer topology sync from OpenStack, identity and OIDC SSO on Ory Kratos, and audit logging.

PLATFORM ORCHESTRATION

A self-service internal developer platform, a Go OpenStack gateway (gophercloud), OpenTofu IaC on Kubernetes, and OpenTelemetry observability.

01 · WatchDog · Go · AGPL-3.0

Infrastructure monitoring with a hub-and-spoke WebSocket architecture. A central hub serves the dashboard; lightweight agents report from private networks over outbound-only connections.

usewatchdog.dev · github.com/sylvester-francis/Watchdog

02 · Sentry · Go · Dagger

Container-security Dagger module that integrates Trivy, Grype, and Snyk to run vulnerability scans inside CI/CD pipelines and report findings.

github.com/sylvester-francis/Sentry

03 · ctxforge · Rust

CLI for manifest-driven LLM context bundles for agentic AI. Assembles reproducible context from a declarative manifest.

github.com/sylvester-francis/ctxforge

MORE

• Compliance Auditor · GDPR and HIPAA document auditing with LLM analysis
• Documentation Generator · LangGraph multi-agent docs synced to Confluence
• n8n Self-Hoster · Ubuntu installer for n8n with Docker, PostgreSQL, and HTTPS
• SLM TypeScript Model · LoRA fine-tuned small models for TypeScript code generation
• OTA Deploy Tracker · progressive Kubernetes rollouts with FastAPI and Prometheus
• Lintelligence · GitHub pull request review with GPT-4
• Resource Reserver · CLI booking system with JWT, Typer, and FastAPI
• TaskFlow · task tracking with JWT, FastAPI, and Kubernetes manifests

Medium · updated daily

• Reasoning models have a stopping problem
• AI Writes the Code Now. Understanding the System Is Your Job.
• The Frontier Model Is Not the Endgame. The Box on Your Desk Is.
• Commodity inference is the real GLM-5.2 story
• Your agent will crash, and it will overspend. I built the runner that survives both.

Substack · updated daily

• The agent loop is now infrastructure. Someone still has to pay for it.
• Agentic AI hit the Gartner peak. Getting down the other side is a plumbing job
• The harness is the product now, not the model
• Dollars per resident gigabyte: reading the Ryzen AI Halo
• Local AI has a mothership problem

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