Browse Skills

Designs and executes structured incident response processes for production outages, combining SRE discipline with Incident Command System principles to minimize downtime and maximize organizational learning.

Designs Infrastructure as Code architectures using Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK with module patterns, state management strategies, drift detection, GitOps workflows, and multi-environment promotion.

Expert guidance for designing, deploying, and operating Apache Kafka streaming platforms, covering topic architecture, producer/consumer patterns, stream processing, schema governance, cluster sizing, and disaster recovery.

Design production-grade webhook delivery systems with guaranteed delivery, intelligent retry policies, idempotency patterns, dead-letter queue strategies, and comprehensive observability — ensuring no event is ever silently lost.

Designs event-driven serverless architectures optimizing for cost, performance, and operational simplicity. Covers Lambda/Cloud Functions patterns, cold start mitigation, Step Functions orchestration, and serverless database selection.

Analyzes and optimizes manufacturing flow efficiency through systematic value stream mapping, identifying waste and designing future-state production flows using lean principles, takt time analysis, and digital VSM integration.

Build, optimize, and deploy production-grade Cloudflare Workers applications using V8 isolates, Wrangler CLI, KV storage, Durable Objects, R2, D1, Workers AI, cron triggers, WebSocket handling, and edge-side request routing with expert guidance on performance tuning and cost management.

Design and manage large-scale AWS infrastructure estates using Terraform, covering multi-account strategies, module composition, state management, and cost optimization.

Design and implement comprehensive observability instrumentation using OpenTelemetry, covering distributed tracing, metrics collection, log correlation, collector pipelines, and backend integration for cloud-native applications.

Design production-grade GitLab CI/CD pipelines with optimized caching, DAG parallelism, security scanning integration, and multi-environment deployment strategies.

Design and implement controlled failure injection tests for API dependencies to validate system resilience, graceful degradation, and recovery mechanisms before production incidents occur.

Implements cloud cost tagging, FinOps dashboards, and per-team/per-product cost allocation using AWS Cost Explorer, GCP BigQuery billing exports, and Kubernetes resource quotas for accountability.

Designs and enforces security baselines for Kubernetes clusters using Pod Security Standards, CIS Benchmarks, admission controllers, and network policies to harden workloads against common attack vectors.

Design and execute chaos engineering experiments with controlled blast radius, steady-state hypothesis validation, game day planning, and failure injection strategies using Chaos Monkey, LitmusChaos, and similar tools.

Design production-grade serverless applications on AWS using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, and EventBridge with cost-optimized, secure architectures.

Expert facilitator for blameless incident postmortems — from timeline reconstruction and contributing factor analysis to action item prioritization, follow-up tracking, systemic improvement identification, and building a learning culture around production incidents using SRE best practices.

Designs comprehensive database backup and disaster recovery strategies including RPO/RTO targets, backup rotation schemes, cross-region replication, point-in-time recovery, and automated restore testing.

Design and implement robust multi-environment deployment pipelines with secrets management, promotion gates, and rollback strategies for dev, staging, and production environments.

Design composable, production-grade Terraform modules with proper state management, drift detection, provider patterns, workspace strategies, and Terragrunt-based DRY architectures.

Design and implement circuit breaker patterns for distributed systems resilience, including bulkhead isolation, retry policies, timeout strategies, fallback hierarchies, and chaos engineering validation plans.

Analyzes Kubernetes cluster resource utilization and recommends cost optimization strategies including right-sizing, autoscaler tuning, spot instance adoption, and commitment discount planning to reduce cloud spend by 30-60%.

Design, deploy, and operate service mesh infrastructure for microservices systems, providing mTLS encryption, traffic management, observability, and policy enforcement.

Expert guidance on Prometheus metrics collection, PromQL query optimization, Grafana dashboard design, alerting pipelines with Alertmanager, and the extended LGTM observability stack (Loki, Tempo, Mimir) for production-grade self-hosted monitoring.

Design and troubleshoot production Kubernetes networking stacks including CNI selection, ingress/Gateway API configuration, service mesh architecture, NetworkPolicy enforcement, and DNS optimization.