👋 Hi, I’m @liammurray
👀 I’m interested in ...
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AI enabled coding and productivity using tools such as Claude and Antigragity
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Everything AWS and Kubernetes+GitOps
- Many years experience (since 2016) with all kinds of AWS services (on top of 27 years industry experience)
- Including:
- Kubernetes/containers/serverless
- API Gateway (public,private,rest/http)
- X-Ray instrumentation
- SSM automation
- ECS (EC2/Fargate)
- Mongo, ElasticSearch, Redis/ElastiCache
- EC2/VPC, Transit Gateway, ALB/NLB, VPN
- DevOps (GitHub, CDK, Terraform, Serverless, SAM, ArgoCD, etc.)
- EKS/Kubernetes (Current focus)
- A bunch of other stuff (DMS, Athena, RDS, Elastic Transcoder, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDb, Cognito, Amplify, etc.)
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Typescript/Node.js (Express, NestJS, React, NWRL Nx workspaces, etc.)
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Python
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Guitarbuilding
Just completed a flamenco negra based in part on a Marcelo Barbero guitar (a famous builder from Madrid). Now working on a blanca (cypress side/back instead of Indian Rosewood).
Attendended guitar building courses with Sergei de Jonge (Toronto, 2000) and Stephen Hill (La Herradura, Spain, 2012)
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Woodworking
Over 20 years experience. Attended 1.5 year Seattle Central Cabinet Making Program back in 2009.
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Language learning
Spanish
🌱 My current work focus ...
- Semi-retired working on personal projects using Claude + Antigravity
🌱 Past work focus ...
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Kubernetes+AWS (EKS), including:
- GitOps with ArgoCD
- Cluster upgrade and maintenance
- Security via Kyverno, Bottlerocket, etc.
- Observability with Prometheus+Grafana+Loki, OpenTelemetry tracing
- Temporal workflow (durable functions, workflow as code)
- Crossplane/Cluster API (Deploying AWS infra with Kubernetes API instead of CDK/Terraform, etc.)
- Service Mesh (AppMesh, LinkerD), progressive delivery (Flux, etc.)
- Load balancers and Ambassador API Gateway
- VCluster for dev environments
- etc.
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Many years in earlier part of career using C++, Java, Symbian, Android


