Hi, I'm Ethan

I keep complex
systems simple.

Systems Engineer · Melbourne, Australia

Open to remote infrastructure and platform engineering roles

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Get to know me

About Me.

Systems Engineer with over five years of experience building reliable cloud infrastructure, automating delivery pipelines, and improving observability across distributed systems. Specializes in Kubernetes, Linux, infrastructure as code, and production reliability for high-growth software teams.

5+Years of Experience
120+Services Migrated
99.98%Platform Uptime
82%Deployment Time Reduced

Tools I trust

Skills.

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Elasticsearch

Go

Python

Bash

Linux

Networking

Nginx

Systemd

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

GitLab CI

Selected builds

Projects.

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2024

KubeWatch

Featured

A lightweight Kubernetes operations dashboard that combines deployment health, resource usage, alert history, and rollout status in one interface.

Go · Kubernetes · Prometheus · Grafana · React

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2023

InfraFlow

Featured

An infrastructure-as-code starter kit for creating repeatable AWS environments with opinionated security, observability, and CI defaults.

Terraform · AWS · GitHub Actions · Terratest

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2022

LogTrail

A command-line utility for securely querying distributed application logs across multiple environments.

Python · Click · Elasticsearch · Docker

Where I've worked

Experience.

Jun 2022PresentRemote

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Northbridge Cloud Labs

Designs and operates cloud-native infrastructure for a multi-region B2B software platform.

  • Migrated more than 120 services from virtual machines to Kubernetes with staged rollouts and zero critical production outages.
  • Reduced average deployment time from 45 minutes to 8 minutes by standardizing GitHub Actions workflows and reusable deployment templates.
  • Built Terraform modules for networking, identity, compute, and managed databases across three AWS environments.
  • Introduced service-level objectives, alerting standards, and Grafana dashboards that reduced mean time to detection by 38%.

AWS · Kubernetes · Terraform · GitHub Actions · Prometheus · Grafana · Linux

Feb 2020May 2022Melbourne, Australia

Systems Administrator

BluePeak Technologies

Managed Linux infrastructure, internal networking, backups, and developer tooling for a software consultancy.

  • Automated patching, account provisioning, and server configuration using Ansible and Python.
  • Redesigned backup and recovery workflows, reducing recovery time objectives from eight hours to under two hours.
  • Implemented centralized logging with Elasticsearch and Fluent Bit for faster incident investigation.
  • Maintained 99.98% availability across customer-facing services.

Linux · Ansible · Python · Bash · Docker · Elasticsearch · Nginx

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