Field Service Technician II · Infrastructure · Reliability
I’m Stephen McCruden, a Field Service Technician II working with mission-critical public-safety communications. I design, automate, and document systems with a focus on Kubernetes, GitOps, and operational clarity.
Linux
Terraform
Ansible
Kubernetes
Flux
Prometheus
Featured engineering project
A three-node environment designed to be destroyed, reconstructed, observed, and failure-tested—not merely kept running.
Engineering approach
A recovery plan is incomplete until the system can be reconstructed predictably from documented code.
Metrics, logs, and meaningful health signals turn guesswork into informed operational decisions.
Backups, automation, and high availability only become trustworthy after deliberate failure testing.
From the notebook
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