Platform Engineer building production-grade infrastructure at home — because if it’s worth running once, it’s worth running right.
Who I Am#
I’m German Rivera, a Platform / DevOps engineer with 8+ years turning infrastructure into reliable, automated systems. By day I architect and operate distributed platforms. By night I run the same patterns on a homelab cluster just to see how far I can push it.
This blog is where I write about what I’m building, what broke, and what I learned from both.
Certifications#
Microsoft Certified| Certification | Code | Issuer |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Fundamentals | AZ-900 | Microsoft |
Skills#
Infrastructure & Platform#
Kubernetes / k3s
ArgoCD / GitOps
Azure
Cloudflare Zero Trust
Grafana · Prometheus
OpenStack
Languages#
Go
Python
TypeScript
Node.js
Java
Frameworks & Tools#
React
NestJS
Docker
Terraform
AI & LLM Tooling#
Microsoft AI Foundry
AWS Bedrock
GitHub Copilot
Claude Code
Reading List#
Books that shaped how I think about systems and engineering culture.
Engineering#
- The Phoenix Project — DevOps as a story; required reading
- The Unicorn Project — same universe, developer lens
- Accelerate — the science behind high-performing engineering orgs
- Google SRE Book — free, dense, worth it
- The DevOps Handbook — practical companion to Phoenix Project
- Clean Code — craft fundamentals
Self Development#
- Range — why generalists win in a specialized world
- Ikigai — purpose-driven living
- The Now Habit — beating procrastination without guilt
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — timeless framework