jesse-leonard.sh
$cat about.txt

    ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
    ║                    JESSE LEONARD                             ║
    ║                 Platform Engineer                            ║
    ║                                                              ║
    ║  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║
    ║  │ > Kubernetes Infrastructure                             │ ║
    ║  │ > CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code                        │ ║
    ║  │ > Full-Stack Background                                 │ ║
    ║  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ║
    ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
  
$whoami

Platform engineer with six years of Kubernetes infrastructure experience:

  • ▸ 200+ node bare-metal HPC clusters to AWS EKS
  • ▸ CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
  • ▸ Self-service tooling and observability
  • ▸ Production-style homelab (Proxmox, k3s, Terraform, TrueNAS/ZFS)
$ls -la ./contact
skills.json
$cat skills.json | jq .

"orchestration": [

"Kubernetes (EKS, k3s)"
"Helm"
"Kustomize"
"Traefik"
"Ingress"
"HPA"
"Docker"

]

"iac": [

"Terraform"
"Ansible"
"Juju"
"MaaS"

]

"cicd": [

"GitLab CI"
"Jenkins"
"Multi-stage Docker builds"

]

"cloud": [

"AWS (EKS, ECS, Cognito)"
"Azure Government (Key Vault)"

]

"observability": [

"Prometheus"
"Grafana"
"ELK Stack (Logstash, Kibana)"

]

"systems": [

"Linux"
"Proxmox"
"ZFS/NFS"
"UniFi"
"TLS/certificate management"

]

"languages": [

"Python"
"Go"
"JavaScript"

]

"application": [

"Django REST Framework"
"Next.js/React"
"Express"
"Keycloak"
"PostgreSQL"

]

blog.log
$tail -f blog.log

Recent Posts:

October 31, 2026

Running a Production-Style Homelab with Proxmox, k3s and Terraform

How I run naboo.party like production: Proxmox for virtualization, k3s for Kubernetes, TrueNAS for storage, and every layer managed as code so any node can be rebuilt from scratch.

#Kubernetes
#Proxmox
#Terraform
April 28, 2025

Building a Semantic Search Engine with Next.js and Elasticsearch

How I built CozyBible.com, a semantic search engine for Bible verses, with Next.js, Django, Elasticsearch and text embeddings for natural-language queries.

#Next.js
#Django
#Elasticsearch
April 10, 2025

Automating Kubernetes Deployments with GitLab CI/CD

How to replace manual deployments with a fully automated GitLab CI/CD pipeline to AWS EKS: repeatable, auditable releases built on multi-stage Docker images.

#Kubernetes
#AWS EKS
#GitLab CI