👋 Hi, I’m Mike Reeves, a former Mechanical Eng., turned full stack web developer finally landing in the DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer specialty. General SWE experience of 20+ years and Cloud Infra/Devops of 12+ years.
I ❤️ IAC (Infrastructure as Code), the ☁️(aka other peoples' computers) and the full gamut from Linux ➡️ CDNs and all the interesting stuff in between.

🔭 I was searching for a new position as a DevOps Architect / Principal / Staff / Lead / Manager (if w/ a heavy IC aspect) but happily found a new role I will be starting in late February 2022.

• 👀 I’m interested in:
  • Devops/SRE/Cloud
    AWS, DevOps and IAC (Infrastructure as Code), Ansible, Terraform & Observability
  • Software Eng./Programming
    Python, Bash, Ruby and PHP (TODO: Learn a little Go, Java and Kotlin)
  • Sports
    • Running (my passion since I was 15)
      My Strava profile & My Athlinks results & My Strava Year(s) in Review
    • Cycling & Snowboarding
  • Misc
    Cooking, Hacking & Making, Reading & Travel
• 🌱 I’m currently deepening my knowledge of python, terraform, kubernetes, etc.
• ⛄ Projects I am doing or wish to do
• 💡 See some of my Big ideas I need to find some time to work on.
• 📫 How to reach me and various
  • LinkedIn & My resume (updated 11/2022)
  • mike.reeves @ "the google email provider"
  • Hacker News
  • StackOverflow
  • Strava
• 🛠️ See some interesting work I did at Personal Capital during my 6 years and several promotions.
• 📖 I love to read. I divide my time between tech, entrepreneurial/biz, educational and fun (my guilty pleasures are sci-fi & fantasy).
  • Reading:
    • 2023 Current or in Queue
      • Python Tricks: A Buffet of Awesome Python Features - lots of interesting python minutiae and good practices
      • Kubernetes Up and Running 2nd edition - Most of this is a review but wanted to fill in any gaps since most of my knowledge is AWS-centric and self-taught. I should perhaps pick up the 3rd edition though reviews are mixed.
      • How the World Really Works
      • AWS Cookbook - Fill in some blanks in my architectural knowledge
      • TODO: Add the rest
    • 2023 Done:
      • 97 Things Every SRE Should Know - A collection of essays on SRE-isms. Some are great, some are meh and some I disagree with. TODO: Add notes to /BOOKS.md
      • Hogfather by Terry Pratchett - When I retire I'm going to read all 41 of the Discworld books! :-)
    • Past Notable:
      • How I Built This by Guy Raz - Fantastic book about the trials and tribulations of entrepreneurship.

• Runamok AWS Lab - Future home of setting up an AWS account using best practices and terraform.
• Interview Questions - 'Nuff said'
• 2022 Advent of Code - Some python solutions to the 2022 Advent of Code. Need to work on this some more.
• Project Euler - 60+ solutions in PHP for Project Euler. Last touched in 2015 :-/ .
• 2021 Digital Ocean K8s Challenge - Basic terraform and instructions to setup a K8s cluster in DO. WAY cheaper (but more limited) than AWS.
• macaddress-cli - Example of making a simple dockerized cli tool calling an API
• Hugo Quickstart - Hugo static blog software hosted as a Digital Ocean App and hosted at runthing.com