My Hobbies & Interests
When I'm not optimizing cloud infrastructure or building automation platforms, I enjoy pursuing these hobbies that help me maintain work-life balance and continuous learning:
🏸 Playing Badminton
Active badminton player who enjoys both recreational and competitive games. Badminton helps me stay physically fit and teaches valuable lessons about strategy, quick decision-making, and teamwork - skills that translate well into DevOps and platform engineering.
📱 Android Development
Passionate about mobile application development and exploring the Android ecosystem. Building Android apps helps me understand the full software development lifecycle from a different perspective, which enhances my ability to support development teams as a platform engineer.
🎮 Playing FIFA on Xbox
Gaming enthusiast who enjoys FIFA on Xbox for relaxation and strategic gameplay. Gaming helps develop problem-solving skills, pattern recognition, and the ability to adapt to changing situations - all valuable traits in cloud operations and incident management.
Technical Interests
🏠 Home Lab: Pi-hole + Unbound DNS
Tech Stack: Raspberry Pi, Pi-hole, Unbound, Linux
Self-hosted network-wide ad-blocking solution using Pi-hole as a DNS sinkhole on Raspberry Pi. Configured Unbound as a recursive DNS resolver for enhanced privacy - no reliance on third-party DNS providers. Serves all devices on the home network with custom blocklists and monitoring dashboards for real-time DNS query analysis.
💒 Wedding Invitation Website
Tech Stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, GitHub Pages
Designed and built a custom wedding invitation website hosted on GitHub Pages. Featured venue information, event schedule, photo gallery, and guest details - combining creativity with technical skills to create a memorable digital experience for guests.
Open Source Contributions
Active contributor to open-source projects, including the Traefik community, where I've solved issues faced by users in the community forum.
Technical Writing
Published technical articles on Medium reaching 1,000+ engineers, sharing knowledge about infrastructure optimization, ClickHouse migrations, and platform engineering best practices.
Continuous Learning
Regularly exploring new technologies in cloud-native ecosystems, container orchestration, and observability tools. Maintaining certifications, including CKA (91%), CKAD, AWS, and GCP.