Travel
Trips, photos, routes, just casual memories and things experienced.
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Building Reliable Systems. Exploring the World.
I’m Peter Swayne, a DevOps engineer focused on automation, infrastructure, and practical systems work, with travel notes and project write-ups alongside it.
Explore
What’s here
Projects
Automation, infrastructure, small builds, experiments, and proper write-ups.
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Current focus
- Cleaning up the travel archive so posts feel consistent.
- Publishing better project write-ups instead of half-finished notes.
- Keeping the site dark, simple, fast, and easy to maintain, simplicity is key.
What to expect
Style of the site
- Short posts.
- Photos with context.
- Projects with actual detail: what I built, what broke, what changed.
Expertise
My Tech Stack
Focus on DevOps, infrastructure automation, and reliable systems. I work with cloud platforms, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring solutions to build scalable systems.
Cloud / Infra
- AWS (Lambda, EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, DynamoDB)
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- LocalStack
CI/CD & Release
- Jenkins (20+ pipelines)
- GitHub Actions
- Digital.ai Deploy / Release
- Liquibase
Containers & Platform
- Docker
- Kubernetes / EKS
Monitoring & Ops
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Logging & Alerting
- Incident Handling
Languages & Scripting
- Python
- Bash
- React
Tools & Platforms
- SnapLogic
- Tableau
- Git Workflows
Impact
What I've Built
Concrete results from infrastructure work: reducing deployment times, cutting costs, enabling teams, and maintaining reliability at scale.
300+
Infrastructure as Code
Managed Lambdas, ECS tasks, Step Functions, and EKS clusters via CloudFormation with reproducible dev→prod parity. Owned and managed Digital.ai Release and Digital.ai Deploy platforms. Handled state issues, drift recovery, and environment consistency.
60 min → 5–15 min
Deployment Acceleration
Redesigned CI/CD pipelines with approval gates, artifact promotion, and rollback strategies.
25–35%
Cost Optimization
Re-architected infrastructure for significant savings without impacting uptime. Optimized resource usage across AWS and managed services.
20+
Pipeline Architecture
Designed and maintained multi-environment pipeline systems (dev/stage/prod) with automated testing, security gates, and safe rollback mechanisms.
Jenkins Management
Managed Jenkins platform infrastructure including upgrades, plugin management, and maintenance. Ensured stability and performance across 20+ production pipelines.
On-Call Reliability
Served as production release manager handling outages, emergency deployments, and disaster recovery drills with minimal downtime.
Automation & Scripts
Built SnapLogic pipeline integrations, AWS workflows, DynamoDB interactions, and React dashboards for Jenkins metrics + team visibility.
2–4
Leadership
Mentored juniors in infrastructure, DevOps practices, and production best practices. Reduced onboarding friction and escalations.
Monitoring
Owned full observability stack: Prometheus + Grafana for infrastructure and application monitoring. Built alerts and runbooks for critical systems.