I'm a developer from Vancouver, BC who's had an interesting journey in tech starting from support, through cloud infrastructure and project management. Currently I work as an SRE at lightstep helping build and "operationalize" things that helps to guide others towards better o11y :)
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Oct 14, 2025 路 10 min read 路 So what would you say you do here? Is a question I routinely ask myself, because in a start-up, it鈥檚 always changing. (And also because Office Space was a fantastic and very quotable movie). And as a Founding Customer Success Engineer - the follow-u...
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Jul 22, 2023 路 4 min read 路 "T, why didn't I get this page?" 馃え "Wait, why does it show that <other_person> is on call? They just did it the other week." 馃 Are two phrases that you don't want to hear after making changes to your PagerDuty schedules terraform. Intro In the las...
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Jul 15, 2023 路 8 min read 路 At work last week, I found myself getting burned by ordering and "file doesn't exist" errors. Ultimately - the thing that (would have) helped me get past most of these issues is something that I can't believe I forgot: a table. If you've been follow...
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Jul 7, 2023 路 8 min read 路 Bash scripting is one of those things that I always associate with a strong engineers and especially those in SRE. Conversely, it's not something I get to write a lot of and so - I'll take any opportunity to sharpen those skills. This blog post expla...
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Jun 26, 2023 路 6 min read 路 This week I've been finishing up a task that involves updating our CI/CD pipeline to make use of a feature available in the newest release of the Open Telemetry Collector to validate configuration files. In doing so, I got a chance to get up close an...
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