SYS.INIT — JUNIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER · LUXEMBOURG

I run the systems behind the screen.

Talos · Kubernetes · Flux · Prometheus — self-taught, self-hosted.

AVAILABLE— Open to junior DevOps and platform roles

tim@vps: ~ — ssh[SOON]

apiLIVE
terminalQUEUED

The command register belongs to a later stage. This frame reports what the page can already ask the API, and takes no input until it can answer one.

tim@vps: ~ — ssh[SOON]

api— NO DATA
terminalQUEUED

The command register belongs to a later stage. This frame reports what the page can already ask the API, and takes no input until it can answer one.

SYS.01TRAINING LOGSELF-TRACKED · 14 TRACKS · EVIDENCE: 02 SYSTEMS · SOURCE: /api/training

01 PLATFORM1 TRACK

Kubernetes (Talos)LEARNING
RUNNING IN01 TALOS-PROD (BARE METAL)

02 NETWORK4 TRACKS

Cluster networkingLEARNING
RUNNING IN01 TALOS-PROD
Load balancingLEARNING
RUNNING IN01 TALOS-PROD (METALLB)
Ingress & TLSAPPLIED
SHIPPED IN01 TALOS-PROD (TRAEFIK, CERT-MANAGER) · 02 TIMSEIL-DEV (TRAEFIK)
Edge tunnelLEARNING
RUNNING IN01 TALOS-PROD (CLOUDFLARE TUNNEL)

03 DELIVERY4 TRACKS

GitOps (Flux)LEARNING
RUNNING IN01 TALOS-PROD
Secrets (SOPS)LEARNING
RUNNING IN01 TALOS-PROD (SOPS + AGE)
CI (GitHub Actions)APPLIED
SHIPPED IN02 TIMSEIL-DEV (BUILD + DEPLOY)
Containers (Docker)APPLIED
SHIPPED IN02 TIMSEIL-DEV (COMPOSE VIA DOKPLOY)

04 OBSERVABILITY2 TRACKS

Metrics & alertsAPPLIED
SHIPPED IN01 TALOS-PROD (KUBE-PROMETHEUS-STACK) · 02 TIMSEIL-DEV (PROMETHEUS, GRAFANA)
LogsAPPLIED
SHIPPED IN02 TIMSEIL-DEV (LOKI, ALLOY)

05 DATA & BACKUP2 TRACKS

PostgreSQLAPPLIED
SHIPPED IN01 TALOS-PROD (CLOUDNATIVEPG) · 02 TIMSEIL-DEV (SYSTEMS, TRAINING, OPS DATA)
BackupsAPPLIED
SHIPPED IN01 TALOS-PROD (VELERO, ETCD SNAPSHOTS) · 02 TIMSEIL-DEV (S3)

06 WORKFLOW1 TRACK

AI-assisted engineering (Claude Code)APPLIED
SHIPPED IN01 TALOS-PROD (CLAUDE AS TUTOR) · 02 TIMSEIL-DEV (CLAUDE.MD, INVARIANTS, CI GATES)

SCALE

CORE— running in several systems
APPLIED— shipped at least once
LEARNING— in progress
QUEUED— planned

SYS.01TRAINING LOGSELF-TRACKED · — NO DATA TRACKS · EVIDENCE: — NO DATA · SOURCE: /api/training

fetching training log
source: ops-api /api/training

SCALE

CORE— running in several systems
APPLIED— shipped at least once
LEARNING— in progress
QUEUED— planned

SYS.02SELECTED WORK02 SYSTEMS · SOURCE: /api/systems

01talos-prodTalos · Kubernetes · Flannel · MetalLB · Traefik · cert-manager · Cloudflare Tunnel · Flux · SOPS · kube-prometheus-stack · CloudNativePG · Velero<> PRIVATE · INTERNALIN BUILD
02timseil.devThis site as a system — built, deployed and measured by the pipeline it documents.Next.js 16.3 · React 19.3 · Go 1.26 · pgx 5.11 · sqlc 1.30 · goose 3.28 · PostgreSQL 18.6 · Node 24 · Prometheus 3.13 · Loki 3.7 · Alloy 1.19<> PUBLIC · github.com/G1NG4R/timseil-devLIVE→

SYS.02SELECTED WORK— NO DATA SYSTEMS · SOURCE: /api/systems

fetching systems
source: ops-api /api/systems

SYS.03UPLINKTWO BLOCKS · EACH NAMES ITS SOURCE

1566 CONTRIBUTIONS · LAST 370 DAYS · SOURCE: /api/contributions · 37M OLD

fetching contribution calendar
source: ops-api /api/contributions

OPERATION · LAST 30 DAYS · ONE CELL IS ONE DAYSOURCE: /api/systems/timseil-dev?window=30

fetching operation days
source: ops-api /api/systems/timseil-dev

Junior DevOps engineer in Luxembourg, self-taught from the helpdesk up. I run a Kubernetes cluster on bare metal at home — Talos, GitOps with Flux — and this site on a VPS I administer myself. I build with Claude Code, and every claim here is bound to a system you can check.

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