About

Tomas Somewhere on the playa

Hi, I'm Tomas. I'm a site reliability engineer and team lead, and I've spent most of the last twenty years keeping software running: over a decade at a global open source software company, building and operating managed Kubernetes, and now leading the team behind an enterprise AI platform.

I started out looking after systems for luxury hotel groups. Before that, as a teenager, I ran a small internet provider from my parents' house on a NetBSD router, and later sold it.

One day, by pure chance, I found a Power Mac 9500 someone had left on the kerb, wired my own serial cable to reach its firmware console, netbooted NetBSD onto it and ran it from a closet in a rented house. The NetBSD developers on the mailing list helped me through it.

NetBSD 2.0 console on a Power Mac 9500 uogiene: NetBSD on a Power Mac someone left on the kerb

Somewhere along the way I became a Fedora contributor and packager, wrote code that ended up in Ingenuity, the helicopter on Mars, and served as CTO of the Australian Slacklining Association.

This is where I write up what I build at home: Linux, virtualisation, networking and Kubernetes, done hands-on. Every article is something I've actually run, with the commands to follow along and recordings of the terminal.

Projects

kinc: Kubernetes, rootless, in containers.

faro: watches a Kubernetes cluster and records every change.

ukko: sorts a Gmail inbox automatically, with Google Apps Script.

Elsewhere

My CV has the longer version. You'll find me on GitHub as T0MASD, and on LinkedIn. New articles arrive in the RSS feed.