About Cloud Platform Guide (CPG)

Hey there! Welcome to the Cloud Platform Guide! I'm an experienced professional with a background in Enterprise Information Technology, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Cloud Computing. My passion lies in leveraging my knowledge and skills to help individuals, businesses, and organizations optimize and innovate on the Cloud.

I have five core values that I bring to my life and work:

  1. RESPECT - Don't be a jerk.
  2. RESPONSIBILITY - You are not always responsible for what happens to you but you are responsible for how you react. Take responsibility for success and failure.
  3. BUILD VALUE - Get the job done with the highest quality that time and money will allow.
  4. BALANCE - Life is not all about the grind. Also, work is work and family is family.
  5. HONESTY - Minimize the Bullshit and tell the truth.

While I strive to reflect these core values in all that I do, this site will primarily focus on the topics surrounding the emerging field of  Cloud Platform Engineering. That said, Platform Engineering is really just another reframing of building value with information technology, much like Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, FinOps, and all the other "Ops." The details of these frameworks often get obscured by specific products, sales pitches, job titles, university programs, and other trends of the day. At the core, these frameworks are about building value. As long as we continue to seek new answers to the question of how to leverage technology for the value of an individual, company, nation, and humanity, we will continue to invent new frameworks to answer it.

On this site and in my work, I explore and share the answer to the question of value through Cloud and Platform Engineering. Put simply, I'm an Engineer, I build things, and my hope is that these things always bring value to others.