Skills & Experience

Platform & Infrastructure

Kubernetes

Crossplane and KubeVela for custom developer-facing components

AWS

EKS, Aurora (RDS), Secrets Manager, S3, IAM

GCP

Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Run, Firestore

Docker / Portainer

Container management

Nginx

Reverse proxy, server configuration

GitHub Actions

CI/CD workflows

Languages

JavaScript / TypeScript

Primary — full-stack web, tooling, CLIs

Go

CLIs, infrastructure tooling, API servers

Java

Android native modules, JVM clients

Shell

macOS setup, automation scripts

Frameworks & Libraries

React

Admin UIs, web frontends

React Native

Mobile apps, native ad integrations

Node.js / Express

REST APIs, headless CMS backends

Next.js / Vite

Full-stack web applications, frontend builds

Spring Boot

JVM services and REST APIs

Databases & Storage

SQLite

Embedded, local-first applications

MySQL

Relational data layer for self-hosted services

Cloud Firestore

Cloud-native NoSQL, GCP deployments

Firebase

Auth, real-time database, hosting

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Currently

Platform engineer at Guidewire Software, building Kubernetes-based developer tooling and cloud infrastructure for the insurance industry.

Open-source contributor — see github.com/cbridges1 for active projects.