Infrastructure engineering — AWS architecture, Terraform, Kubernetes, platform patterns.
Every new Claude Code session starts cold. After 3 months of daily use across 20+ infrastructure repos, I built a three-tier context hierarchy that loads team patterns, project state, and infrastructure conventions automatically — no copy-paste, no ramp-up.
S3 Table Buckets are purpose-built for Iceberg metadata operations — 10x faster than regular S3 for query planning. Here's how we built a three-zone medallion lakehouse with Terraform, including the cost model that made it an easy sell.
Our network topology had three standalone Transit Gateways that couldn't talk to each other. Here's how we redesigned the full platform — hub-spoke TGW with inline Network Firewall inspection — and cut over without touching a single application.
How I eliminated the 5-minute deployment tax with GitHub Actions so git push just works
Why I automated my side hustle infrastructure with Terraform instead of clicking through AWS console like a normal person
How Terraform eliminated 15 manual steps from SSL certificate validation across two domains
