Western Wilson Western Wilson

Now

now

What I’m doing now?

1) Travel, job applications, and devops project

I’m travelling Europe and actively looking for my next role. Still doing all the things I love: coding, learning, reading, exercising, cooking, exploring. But I’m turning up the dial on job applications now.

To support this process I’m building an end-to-end demo project to showcase my DevOps skills. It’s a simple coffee concession card app (inspired by Raglan Roast’s loyalty book!) pushed through a full pipeline from code to production.

The app is deliberately simple. The real work is everything around it: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, container orchestration, GitOps, environment promotion. I’ll split across three repos to mirror how teams actually structure things. The goal is to go from local dev to production on AWS (eventually GCP too), using modern practices, with every tradeoff & decision documented.

2) Agentic AI

I’ve done a lot of this stuff before. So to make it more interesting for me, I’m finding ways to embedd Agentic AI (via Claude Code) into my workflow.

3) New website to write my reflections

I didn’t like the tech stack of my previous profile website(webflow with CMS). It redirected people from my custom domain to a free tier webflow site, which was a simple solution, but not very elegant. So my new site was migrated to Hugo. I started out with a free Theme, which was so easy and took 5 minutes, but I wanted something custom so it took a little longer.

Tech stack

Main stuff:

  • Macbook Pro 16
  • Kindle ereader (11th Gen paperwhite)
  • AnyType for personal notes
  • Claude mostly, but also Perplexity for research and it’s hands-free voice chat feature

Main tech stack:

  • Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EKS, RDS, SSO) • Terraform • Docker • Kubernetes • Helm • PostgreSQL • NewRelic/Prometheus/Grafana • OpenStack • GCP (wanting to learn)
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions • TeamCity • Octopus Deploy
  • Languages: Python (FastAPI, Flask) • Bash • Go (learning) • some C# & Java
  • Practices: REST API Design • Infrastructure as Code • Observability • Security Controls • Agile/Scrum

Also worked with:

  • Frontend: Vue.js (Nuxt), React (Next.js), Tailwind CSS, Hugo
  • Exploring: MLOps as a future direction — completed Google’s MLCC
  • Machine Learning: Pandas • NumPy • TensorFlow (from MLCC exercises)