https://amknight.com/home/Recent content in Homes onHugoenhttps://amknight.com/home/home/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://amknight.com/home/home/<p><a hidden rel="me" href="https://hachyderm.io/@amknight">Mastodon</a></p> <section id="showcase" class="rad-showcase rad-showcase--index rad-animation-group rad-fade-down"> <div> <div class="showcase-section row flex-column-reverse flex-md-row rad-fade-down rad-waiting rad-animate"> <div class="col-12 col-sm-12 col-md-6 col-lg-6 col-xl-6"> <h1 class="display-1"> Welcome! </h1> <h2 class="display-5"> <span>A little about me...</span> </h2> <div class="lead"> I'm A.M. Knight, an Infrastructure and Software Engineer with a passion for building scalable, reliable systems. With extensive experience in both cloud infrastructure and software development, I specialize in creating solutions that are both robust and efficient. My expertise spans multiple domains including: <ul> <li>Infrastructure and DevOps practices</li> <li>System architecture and performance optimization</li> <li>Software development and testing</li> <li>Security best practices and compliance</li> <li>Platform building and developer tooling</li> </ul> I enjoy working with cutting-edge technologies to solve complex problems and create impactful solutions for businesses and individual customers. When I'm not coding, you can find me exploring new technologies, homebrewing beer, painting and 3d printing miniature wargaming models and working on a new fantasy novel series. </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-sm-12 col-md-6 col-lg-6 col-xl-6 profile-image"> <picture class=""> <source srcset="https://amknight.com/images/showcase/showcase_hu_1e9bbed0ca978d04.webp 1x, https://amknight.com/images/showcase/showcase_hu_eedae5b3084439ea.webp 2x" type="image/webp" /> <source srcset="https://amknight.com/images/showcase/showcase_hu_fa141a33b5c2f42c.png 1x, https://amknight.com/images/showcase/showcase_hu_b244637a569085bc.png 2x" type="image/png"> <img width="1512" height="2016" class="lozad img-responsive " data-src="https://amknight.com/images/showcase/showcase_hu_fa141a33b5c2f42c.png" alt='' src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBwACAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAAHAAIAAAIDjI9YADs=" loading="lazy" decoding="async" /> </picture> </div> <div class="col-12 inner-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="row platform-links shortcode"> <div class="col-12"> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/amknight" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="linkedin" ><i class="icon-linkedin"></i> </a> <a href="https://github.com/ilkelma" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="square-github" ><i class="icon-square-github"></i> </a> <a href="https://gitlab.com/ilkelma" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="square-gitlab" ><i class="icon-square-gitlab"></i> </a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/amknight.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="bluesky" ><i class="icon-bluesky"></i> </a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/@amknight" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="mastodon" ><i class="icon-mastodon"></i> </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row platform-links"> <div class="col-12"></div> </div> </div> </section> <!-- <section id="about" class="section rad-animation-group pb-0"> <div class="rad-fade-down"> <div class="row d-flex flex-column-reverse flex-md-row"> <div class="about__profile-picture col-12 col-md-6"> </div> <div class="col-12 col-md-6 my-auto"> <h2>About me</h2> <div class="about-me content"> This content is using the <code>about-section</code> shortcode. <br/>You can write <code>HTML</code>, as long as you <em>wrap it</em> accordingly. </div> <a href="https://amknight.com/skills" target="_blank" class="btn btn-primary mt-3"> <i class="icon-user"></i> Check my skills </a> </div> </div> </div> </section> --> <section id="education" class="section section--border-bottom rad-animation-group" > <div class="container-education"> <div class="row rad-fade-down"> <div class="col-12"> <h2>Education</h2> <div class="row pt-2 pt-md-4"> <div class="col-12 col-sm-6 mb-4 mb-sm-0"> <div class="education"> <div class="education__date">2007-2009</div> <div class="education__title">George Mason University</div> <div class="education__degree">Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology</div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-sm-6 mb-4 mb-sm-0"> <div class="education"> <div class="education__date">2009-2011</div> <div class="education__title">Columbia University</div> <div class="education__degree">Masters of Arts in Anthropology</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <!-- <section id="experience-single" class="section-experience section section--border-bottom rad-animation-group flex-grow-1"> <div class="row flex-column-reverse flex-md-row rad-fade-down"> <div class="experience-list col-12 col-md-6"> <h2> My job experience (title) </h2> <div class="experience"> <a href="https://amknight.com/experience/job-1/" class="experience__link"> <div class="experience__header"> <div class="experience__meta"> <div class="experience__date">2024-Now</div> <div class="experience__title">Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Environment Automation</div> <div class="experience__company"> Gitlab. <span class="experience__location">Remote</span> </div> </div> <div class="experience__description d-none d-print-block"> <h1>Gitlab</h1> Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Environment Automation Team lead for the core commercial offering of GitLab Dedicated. Lead development of Hosted Runners to Limited Availability that secured multiple customer multi-year commitments of $500k+ in ARR Developed blueprints for Zero Downtime Deployment and Disaster Recovery Served as part of a technical escalation for critical GitLab Dedicated incidents Key expert in a working group to overhaul SRE hiring across the company Lead analysis and implemented fixes to support the largest GitLab Dedicated tenant&rsquo;s critical scaling issues Earned 2 discretionary bonuses and an engineering award for best blueprint </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="experience"> <a href="https://amknight.com/experience/job-2/" class="experience__link"> <div class="experience__header"> <div class="experience__meta"> <div class="experience__date">2022-2024</div> <div class="experience__title">Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Environment Automation</div> <div class="experience__company"> Gitlab. <span class="experience__location">Remote</span> </div> </div> <div class="experience__description d-none d-print-block"> <h1>Gitlab</h1> Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Environment Automation Fully remote SRE working on building the new GitLab dedicated offering. Added aws instance event alerting for our tenants Implemented GitLab Geo for Dedicated tenants as a DR solution </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="experience"> <a href="https://amknight.com/experience/job-3/" class="experience__link"> <div class="experience__header"> <img src="https://amknight.com/images/experience/magic-leap_hu_66bf0965fbddb91c.webp" alt=" logo" class="experience__company-logo" loading="lazy" /> <div class="experience__meta"> <div class="experience__date">2021-2022</div> <div class="experience__title">Principal Site Reliability Engineer</div> <div class="experience__company"> Magic Leap. <span class="experience__location">Remote</span> </div> </div> <div class="experience__description d-none d-print-block"> <h1>Magic Leap</h1> Principal Site Reliability Engineer Fully remote SRE working on platform initiatives and supporting key applications for enterprise customers. Implemented POC Kubernetes based machine learning platform (kubeflow) Coded (Go) a custom Kubernetes operator to create databases and set database permissions for users in Google Cloud SQL Created automation to aggregate NAT IPs for allowlisting across our GCP projects Collaboratively planned go-live for services/onboarding portal for ML2 Advised on high level purchases of software and services </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="experience"> <a href="https://amknight.com/experience/job-4/" class="experience__link"> <div class="experience__header"> <img src="https://amknight.com/images/experience/blizzard_hu_102f3b0216e9d05f.webp" alt=" logo" class="experience__company-logo" loading="lazy" /> <div class="experience__meta"> <div class="experience__date">2020-2021</div> <div class="experience__title">Senior Site Reliability Engineer</div> <div class="experience__company"> Blizzard Entertainment. <span class="experience__location">Remote</span> </div> </div> <div class="experience__description d-none d-print-block"> <h1>Blizzard Entertainment</h1> Senior Site Reliability Engineer Fully remote SRE embedded with the Long Term Analytics (&ldquo;big data&rdquo;) team collaborating with game teams and other data teams. Wrote a tool in Go to streamline argo-cd configuration across teams Implemented cert-manager and external-dns for my embedded team Built out a custom Atlantis (terraform automation) instance in GKE to allow reviews of infra changes via PR </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="experience"> <a href="https://amknight.com/experience/job-5/" class="experience__link"> <div class="experience__header"> <img src="https://amknight.com/images/experience/magic-leap_hu_66bf0965fbddb91c.webp" alt=" logo" class="experience__company-logo" loading="lazy" /> <div class="experience__meta"> <div class="experience__date">2019-2020</div> <div class="experience__title">Senior Site Reliability Engineer</div> <div class="experience__company"> Magic Leap. <span class="experience__location">Remote</span> </div> </div> <div class="experience__description d-none d-print-block"> <h1>Magic Leap</h1> Senior Site Reliability Engineer Fully remote position working with a globally distributed SRE team supporting Magic Leap&rsquo;s platforms and websites. Created a pipeline to manage our GCP projects and user permissions as code using Terraform - managing over 417 projects Created a pipeline to manage our GCP Shared VPC provisioning 53 subnets in different projects for on premises connectivity Maintained 20+ terraform provider forks and hundreds of terraform modules in Go and Terraform A primary architect of a Kubernetes Platform as a Service (PaaS) running internal and major external workloads scaling to accommodate product launches and hundreds of thousands of requests Ran Knative in production as the primary feature of the PaaS providing automatic scaling to 0, istio service mesh/routing and also automatic provisioning of sql databases for services using operator-sdk and CRDs </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="experience"> <a href="https://amknight.com/experience/job-6/" class="experience__link"> <div class="experience__header"> <div class="experience__meta"> <div class="experience__date">2018-2019</div> <div class="experience__title">Site Reliability Engineer</div> <div class="experience__company"> Apple. <span class="experience__location">Remote</span> </div> </div> <div class="experience__description d-none d-print-block"> <h1>Apple</h1> Site Reliability Engineer Part of an SRE team supporting Apple Maps. Primarily supported an internal tool for managing bare metal servers and a workflow engine both built in Ruby on Rails Monitored site reliability and performance while building monitoring tools to automate and document this work Worked with developers to support new features, releases and consult on architecture Scaled infrastructure and respond to production incidents owning production for the services/sites </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="experience"> <a href="https://amknight.com/experience/job-7/" class="experience__link"> <div class="experience__header"> <div class="experience__meta"> <div class="experience__date">2013-2018</div> <div class="experience__title">Web Engineer II</div> <div class="experience__company"> King Arthur Baking (previously King Arthur Flour). <span class="experience__location">Remote</span> </div> </div> <div class="experience__description d-none d-print-block"> <h1>King Arthur Baking</h1> Web Engineer II Part of remote team working for internal clients on projects across the company&rsquo;s ecommerce site and backend systems. Integrated a tax API for all shopping transactions Created an automated deployment system using github to push updates to the static site Built a Disaster Recovery environment in AWS for our data center based servers Modernized tooling and infrastructure Rebuilt from scratch failed production servers transitioning from hand built servers to repeatable ansible playbooks </div> </div> </a> </div> <div class="experience"> <a href="https://amknight.com/experience/job-8/" class="experience__link"> <div class="experience__header"> <div class="experience__meta"> <div class="experience__date">2011-2013</div> <div class="experience__title">Programmer</div> <div class="experience__company"> Accenture. <span class="experience__location">Remote</span> </div> </div> <div class="experience__description d-none d-print-block"> <h1>Accenture</h1> Programmer Developer filling primarily Java roles within the Federal Services division for major government clients. Arrived with 0 knowledge of spring and java by the time I left I had built a prototype front end redesign and was teaching lunch and learns on spring/java best practices </div> </div> </a> </div> </div> <div class="experience-description col-12 col-md-6"> <div class="container-experience"> <div class="row"> <h2>Intro (intro_title)</h2> <div class="lead">Description (intro_description).<br>You can use HTML,with <strong>strong</strong> formatting, or lists <ul><li>one</li><li>two</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4"> <a href='https://example.com' class="btn btn-primary btn-block w-100" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" > <i class="icon-globe"></i> (1) Visit Example <i class="icon-arrow-right"></i> </a> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4"> <a href='https://amknight.com/skills' class="btn btn-frameless w-100" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" > (2) Skills </a> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-4"> <a href='https://amknight.com/experience' class="btn btn-frameless w-100" rel="noopener noreferrer" > View all </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> --> <section id="experience-list-shortcode" class="section-experience section section--border-bottom rad-animation-group flex-grow-1 "> <div class="row flex-column-reverse flex-md-row rad-fade-down"> <div class="experience-list col-12 mt-5 mt-sm-0"> <h2 class="section__title mb-4">Experience</h2> <div class="experience row"> <div class="experience__header col-12 col-md-3 d-flex align-items-start"> <div class="experience__meta"> <div class="experience__date">2024-Now</div> <div class="experience__title">Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Environment Automation</div> <div class="experience__company">Gitlab. <span class="experience__location"> Remote</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="experience__description d-print-block col-12 col-md-9 mt-3 mt-md-0"> <h1>Gitlab</h1> <h2 id="staff-site-reliability-engineer---environment-automation">Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Environment Automation</h2> <p>Team lead for the core commercial offering of GitLab Dedicated.</p>