Anthony Irwin

Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & Cloud Native

AKS engineer @ Microsoft • SDDC (On-prem/Cloud) • Infra as Code

Kubernetes Helm Linux Terraform vSphere Azure Bash Prometheus/Grafana

About

I build reliable, observable, automated platforms in both cloud and on-premise environments, with a focus on simple, reproducible ops. This page doubles as my résumé and a living notebook of how it's deployed.

LinkedIn

Professional profile & activity

 GitHub

Code, homelab, experiments

 Résumé

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Experience

AKS Engineer — Microsoft
2023 — Present · Remote

Operate and troubleshoot large-scale AKS clusters. Advise on HPA tuning, ingress, networking (Calico/Flannel/Azure CNI), and observability.

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Engineer — VMware
2019 — 2023

Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot TKG services within vSphere; build container images and deploy into Kubernetes clusters.

Projects

Homelab Kubernetes

3-node HA control plane on ESXi; CRI-O; Flannel; NGINX Ingress; cert-manager; GitHub Actions to deploy this site.

Observability Stack

Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana with dashboards for API server, CoreDNS, and ingress SLOs.

Contact

www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyi7/