---
apiVersion: api.hikariai.net/v1beta1
kind: Bio
metadata:
  name: about-me
  labels:
    app: about-me
  annotations:
    api.hikariai.net/nickname: "kev"
    api.hikariai.net/summary: "5x Cloud Certified | Senior SRE | Cloud Solutions Architect | Linux, AWS, DevSecOps, Networking, Cybersecurity, Serverless Computing, Kubernetes"
    api.hikariai.net/fun-facts: [ "Linux is a must", "I use Nix BTW", "Vim Professional" ]
    api.hikariai.net/community: [ "@NixOS", "NixOS-Pilots", "knative", "@cncf", "@kubernetes", "@cilium", "@juicedata", "@techprober", "@vertexbox" ]
    api.hikariai.net/goal: "Contribute projects globally"
    api.hikariai.net/bio: |
      My experience and knowledge (both in heavy quotes) spans over multiple languages, my primary
      focus is DevSecOps and CloudComputing. I sometimes use Go and Python for backend development.

      - 📅 Programming since 2013.
      - ⛵ Working as a Cloud Solutions Architect.
      - 🏫 Part-time CloudNative and DevSecOps mentor, forever student.
      - 🖥️ NixOS / Hyprland / Neovim
      - 👨 Golang is my go-to language.
      - ❄️ NixOS remains my favorite Linux distro for personal use. I manage my own fleet of servers and virtual machines powered by it.
      - 🎲 Fun fact: for me, Linux is a must.

spec:
  certifications:
    - [x] CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), certified in 2022
    - [x] CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer), certified in 2022
    - [x] CKS (Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist), certified in 2023
    - [x] AWS SAP-C02 (AWS Solution Architect Professional), certified in 2024
    - [x] AWS SCS-C02 (AWS Security Specialty), certified in 2024
    - [ ] AWS DOP-C02 (AWS Security Specialty), roadmap in in 2024
    - [ ] AWS ANS-C02 (AWS Advanced Networking Specialist), roadmap in 2024
    - [ ] CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional), roadmap in 2025
  languanges:
    - Native in Cantonese, Mandarin
    - Fluent in English
    - Proficient in Japanese
  skills:
    core: [ "Linux", "Enterprise Cloud Solution", "Enterprise Storage Solution", "Enterprise Integrated Compliance Firewall", "IT Security", "Advanced Networking", "Enterprise SD-WAN Solution" ]
    cloud: [ "AWS", "GCP", "Oracle Cloud", "Azure", "Proxmox VE", "VMware vCenter" ]
    devops: [ "Platform Engineering, "Containerization", "Kubernetes", "CloudNative", "DevSecOps", "GitOps", "Serverless" ]
    business: [ "Technical Writing", "Public Speaking", "Advocacy and Outreach", "Host Events" ]

---
apiVersion: api.hikariai.net/v1beta1
kind: Skillset
metadata:
  name: my-skillset
  labels:
    app: my-skillset
  annotations:
    api.hikariai.net/tracks: [ "Linux", "AWS", "DevSecOps", "Networking", "Cybersecurity", "Serverless Computing", "CloudNative", "Kubernetes" ]
spec:
  AWS: [ "IAM", "S3", "EBS", "EFS", "VPC", "VPCE", "PrivateLink", "DirectLink", "VPCPeering", "APIGateway", "EKS", "ECS", "EC2", "Route 53", "StepFunction", "Lambda", "RDS", "Aurora", "DynamoDB", "CloudFront", "TransitGateway", "CloudWatch", "QuickSight", "RedShift", "SNS", "SQS", "OpenSearch", "KinesisDataStream", "KinesisDataFirehose", "ElasticCache", "WAF", "Cognito", "EventBridge", "GuardDuty", "CloudTrail", "Inspector", "CloudFormation", "SecretManager", "Config" ]
  Web Development: [ "Flask", "Go-Gin", "NodeJS", "ExpressJS", "ReactJS", "AngularJS", "RxJS", "Yarn", "Webpack", "FastAPI" ]
  Database: [ "ETCD", "MongoDB", "MySQL", "MariaDB", "PostgreSQL", "Firestore", "InfluxDB", "Redis", "AWS DynamoDB", "AWS Aurora", "Cassandra" ]
  Storage & Distributed File System: [ "iSCSI", "NFS", "Samba", "Volume Storage", "Bucket Storage", "File Storage", "CloudNative CSI (Container Storage Interface)" ]
  DevOps, Release, and GitOps: [ "Platform Engineering", "CI (Continuous Integration)", "CD (Continuous Deployment)", "CO (Continuous Operation)", "ChatOps", "GitHub Actions", "Jenkins", "CircleCI", "Tekton CI", "Argo Workflow", "Weaveworks", "Jenkins X", "Argo Events", "Argo Workflow", "Image Updater", "ArgoCD", "FluxCD", "Flagger", "Rancher Fleet", "Ansible Tower", "AWX", "Progressive Delivery", "Blue/Green Deployment", "Canary Deployment" ]
  Networking and Firewall: [ "L2/L3/L4/L7 TCP/IP Networking Fundamentals", "VLAN", "Pfsense", "OPNSense", "Sophos-XG-Firewall", "Cloud Router", "IPS", "DDoS Protection", "CDN", "Proxy Tunnel", "SD-WAN Solution" ]
  Infrastructure as Code, Template as Code, and Configuration as Code: [ "Pulumi", "CrossPlane", "Terraform", "Terragrunt", "Packer", "Cloud-init", "Ansible", "LXC" ]
  Serverless or FaaS: [ "Fn", "Oracle Functions", "Google Cloud Functions", "AWS Lambda", "Vercel Serverless Function", "AWS Fargate (Serverless way to launch containers)", "OpenFaaS" ]
  Pub-Sub or Message Queue: [ "RabitMQ", "MQTT", "Apache Kafka", "AWS SQS", "Redis Stream" ]
  Tracing, Monitoring, and Logging: [ "OpeneTelemetry", "Prometheus", "Kiali", "Grafana", "Loki", "ELK Stack (ElasticSearch)", "Fluentd", "Fluentbit" ]
  Cloud Hosting: [ "vSphere", "vCenter", "Proxmox VE", "AWS", "Azure", "Google Cloud", "Huawei Cloud", "Oracle Cloud", "AliCloud", "Bandwagon VPS Hosting", "Tencent Cloud", "Linnode", "Vultr", "Civo", "Hetzner" ]
  Container Runtime, Orchestration, and Provision: [ "Docker", "Kata Container", "CRI-O", "Containerd", "Docker Swarm", "Rancher (k3s)", "CloudFoundry", "Kubernetes (k8s)", "OpenShift", "AWS EKS", "GKE", "OKE", "K3D", "K0S", "MiniKube", "Kind" ]
  LoadBalancer, Service Mesh Solutions, and API Gateway: [ "HAproxy", "Nginx", "Trafik", "Istio", "Linkerd", "Envoy", "Consul", "Kong", "Cilium Sidecarless Service Mesh" ]
  Secret Management: [ "Hashicorp Vault" ]
  Cloud-Native Solutions: [ "gRPC", "Helm", "Keel", "Argo CD", "Flux CD", "ArgoWorkflow", "Tekton CI", "Kafka", "Harbor", "Longhorn", "Buildpack", "Kaniko", "EFK Stack", "FluentBit", "Fluentd", "Knative", "KubeFlow", "KubeEdge", "Flagger", "Kubeseal", "KubeLinter", "KubeVela", "Kogito", "Zipkin", "NeoLoad", "Keptn", "Velero", "GatesKeeper", "KubeMQ", "Apache Pulsar", "Capsule", "VCluster", "DevSpace", "Keda", "Dapr", "Karmada", "Sysbox", "OpenTelemetry", "Jenkins X", "Cilium", "Tetragon", "KPack", "Trivy", "Kyverno", "Falco", "OpenPolicyAgent", "Karpenter", "Pixie", "Robusta" ]
  Artificial Intelligence: [ "Computer Visuals", "Scientific Computing", "Model Training", "Linear Regression", "Transfer Learning", "Federal Learning" ]
  Edge (IoT) Computing: [ "PWM Control", "Motor Control", "Lidar Control", "Relay Control" ]