Shipping should be boring. If deploying your product is a tense, manual, Friday-afternoon-avoiding event, that is a fixable problem, and fixing it is some of the highest-leverage work you can do. I set up the infrastructure that makes releases safe, repeatable and unremarkable.
I set up Docker-based CI/CD deployments across AWS and Azure on the products I work on, improving release consistency and cutting the manual steps that cause outages. This is real production DevOps, not a one-off script.
Deploys that cannot surprise you
I build CI/CD pipelines where every code change runs through the same path: automated tests, then a controlled deploy. No more "it worked on my machine", no more manual steps someone forgets at 2am. Releasing becomes something you do calmly and often, which is exactly when teams ship their best work.
Portable by default
I containerize applications with Docker to make application packaging more consistent across local and hosted environments. Moving providers may still require changes to databases, networking, storage, secrets and managed services. Portability should be planned and tested against the infrastructure your product actually uses.
Know before your users do
Monitoring, alerting and error tracking so problems reach you before they reach Twitter. Health checks with automatic failover. The goal is that you find out about an issue from a dashboard, not a customer, and that most issues self-heal before anyone notices.
Backups you can actually restore
Automated database backups with point-in-time recovery, stored separately from production, and a restore you have actually performed at least once. An untested backup is a hope, not a plan, and I treat it as part of the setup rather than a someday task.
Who this is for
Teams whose deploys are scary, products with no monitoring or backups, and anyone standing up new infrastructure who wants it done right the first time. If your ops are held together by hope, this replaces it with a system.
