Hey, I'm Dennis.
I'm the Platform Engineering Lead for the Catalyst Platform at Rolls-Royce, based in Philadelphia. I build the internal developer platform and tooling that engineers and users across the organization rely on every day.
Outside of work, I've spent the past 7+ years running Axolotl Cloud, a Kubernetes homelab that has been continuously rebuilt and rearchitected over the years. Public docs are available if you're interested. I also have a 3D printer for making and prototyping!
When I'm not in front of a keyboard, I enjoy cooking, baking, hiking, woodworking, traveling, and photography with my Sony A7C II. I've also been playing fingerstyle acoustic guitar for nearly a decade, and have recently started exploring electric.
Recent posts
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View all →A highly available, bare metal Kubernetes cluster running Talos Linux with Rook Ceph hyperconverged storage, Cilium networking, and Istio service mesh. Fully GitOps-driven with Argo CD and monitored with Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki. Mikrotik network infrastructure configured via Terraform and an AirPrint server managed with Ansible.
A personal portfolio and blog built with Astro and TailwindCSS. This is its third iteration, evolving from Django to React with a Rust backend to its current form.
A real-time polling app built with Next.js, Prisma, and TailwindCSS. Users can create and share polls, vote on responses, and view live results.
An emulator for the CHIP-8 virtual machine written in Rust. Supports the full instruction set and renders graphics for classic ROMs like Breakout.
Guitar
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