Staff Software Engineer working at the intersection of platform engineering, cloud, and AI automation. I build and operate the platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure that engineering teams depend on — and lately I spend most of my time getting LLMs to do real engineering work.
Platform and DevOps engineering across a 200+ repository microservices estate on AWS — infrastructure, CI/CD, security, observability, and developer experience. I also build AI agent tooling: automated code review, error-triage systems, and multi-agent development workflows. Python, AWS, and making complex systems simpler.
Languages: Python, Bash, TypeScript, SQL, HCL Cloud: AWS (primary), with exposure to GCP and Azure Infrastructure: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Packer CI/CD: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ECS, Fargate Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch AI: Claude / Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, MCP, agent orchestration Other: Linux, PostgreSQL, Redis, API design
- AWS Solutions Architect – Professional
- AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
- AWS Security – Specialty
- handeland.org — personal site
- Unbuffered Technology Solutions — my consultancy
- GitLab
- Nighthawk OSS — experimental and open-source projects
- PyPI — published Python packages
- CPAN — published Perl modules
- Firefox Add-ons — browser extensions
- VS Code Marketplace — Nighthawk Blame extension