Hello there!

My name is James, but I also go by my handle, jazo (jay-zo). I frequently develop in Python, but my passion is for AWS Infrastructure & DevSecOps engineering, with most of my coding in Terraform HCL, YAML and Bash. When I'm not working on a new project or GitHub Actions workflow, I'm usually optimizing or updating containers for development or Kubernetes deployment.

IaC, Containerization, Orchestration & CI/CD

• 1000s of lines of HCL (Terraform) live resource provisioning
  • From VPC, networks & IAM permissions to serverless, managed and unmanaged resources
  • Modules for reusable code
  • Remote states for sharing resources across projects or repos
  • State-locking for team provisioning
• Docker
  • Container migrations
  • Commandline troubleshooting
  • Reverse proxy configurations
  • APIs
• Kubernetes
  • Helm orchestration
  • Commandline troubleshooting
  • Deployment, service, ingress management
  • App migrations
• GitHub Actions
  • Automated testing
  • Enhanced security with ephemeral credentials
  • Semantic versioning
  • Matrices
  • Reporting

2025 Projects

Project	Status	Domains	Tools
Rancher Server (Azure)	In Progress	Orchestration, Cluster mgmt	Rancher, Terraform, Azure, ArgoCD
Log Analytics	In Progress	Observability, Orchestration	K8s, Fluentd, Elasticsearch
Helm chart for k8s-motioneye	In Progress	CI/CD, Orchestration	K8s, Helm
FluxCD GitOps for k8s-motioneye	In Progress	CI/CD, Orchestration	K8s, FluxCD
PVC for k8s-motioneye	Done	Data Plane	K8s, Helm
Website Refresh	maintenance	CI/CD, IaC	Terraform, GHA, Hugo, AWS
Local LLM Deployment	Maintenance	ML/AI	K8s, Ollama, MCP
GHA for Documentation	Done	CI/CD	GitHub Actions
MotionEye K8s Deployment	Maintenance	Migration, Orchestration	K8s, Docker
DevOps All Stars Challenge	Done	IaC, CI/CD	AWS, Terraform, GHA
K8s Code Along	Done	Orchestration	K8s, Helm, Docker

2024 Highlights

Project	Status	Domains	Tools
ArgoCD Code Along	Done	GitOps, CI/CD, Orchestration	K8s, ArgoCD
RESTful API	Done	API, Fullstack development	Node.js, Express, MongoDB
HA Containerized WordPress	Done	IaC, Migration	AWS, Terraform, Docker
Learning Node.js	Done	Fullstack development	Node.js
Profile Landing Page	Maintenance	Serverless	AWS, Terraform, GHA
Cloud Resume Challenge	Maintenance	IaC, CI/CD, Serverless	AWS, Terraform, GHA
AWS API Unit/Mock Testing	Done	QA, Unit Testing, TDD, Serverless	AWS, Python

On Premises/Private Cloud

• Bare-metal machines/appliances
  • ML/AI rig
  • GitHub Enterprise Server
  • Log server/analytics
  • Network storage
  • Proxmox (4 nodes)
  • Multi-ISP failover
  • Talos Linux clusters (8 nodes)
  • K8s LLM deployment
  • pfSense firewall

Certifications

• AWS
  • Certified Developer - Associate | Final prep
  • Certified Cloud Operations - Associate | Final prep
  • Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • Certified Cloud Practitioner
• K8s
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator | To do
• CompTIA
  • Linux+
  • Cloud+
  • Security+
  • Network+
  • A+
  • Project+