Platform Engineer | DevOps/SRE | Infrastructure Architect
My career started in datacenters and network engineering long before the cloud era.
That background still shapes how I design modern infrastructure platforms today.
I approach Infrastructure as Code not as automation, but as architecture expressed in code.
This repository documents the engineering philosophy and design principles behind how I design infrastructure platforms.
This repository is a collection of short essays about platform engineering and Infrastructure as Code.
Topics include:
- Infrastructure Code as Architecture
- Simplicity vs Complexity in Infrastructure Design
- Architecture Should Be Understandable
- Standardization Without Dogma
- Infrastructure as a Platform Product
- Repository Architecture for Infrastructure
- GitOps as an Operating Model
- Designing Infrastructure for the Next Engineer
For a concrete layout that matches how I think about IaC as architecture—especially central Terraform module references, shared global configuration, and guardrails that encode org policy—see companyx-cloud on GitHub. It is a demo AWS stack (Terraform + Ansible) with wrapper-style modules, environment config modules, Terraform assertions (for example VPC/subnet validation), VPC endpoints, SSM-driven operations, and repo tooling (pre-commit, Trivy, detect-secrets) to keep changes consistent and reviewable.
Infrastructure as Code is often treated as automation.
I see it differently.
Infrastructure code is architecture.
And when designed well, it becomes the operating system of the platform.
The documents in this repository explore that idea in depth.
- Simplicity before flexibility
- Infrastructure should be readable
- Prefer composition over abstraction
- Standardization reduces cognitive load
- Infrastructure should be operable by others
- Platforms should empower teams, not gate them