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  Location: Colorado - Remote only
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: Kubernetes / AWS / Terraform 
  Résumé/CV: on request
  Email: kubernetes_sre@protonmail.com

Resume can be given on demand. I have co-workers that love these threads.

I've been in the Devops/SRE space for 21 years. I've been using Kubernetes in production on large clusters for over 5 years now. I've saved companies 40%+ of their AWS bill by utilizing autoscaling and spot heavily with great success.

Looking for a new role where I'm working in a fast paced environment and help them with their cloud/kubernetes experiences.

datadogs APM traces are the one thing that locks companies into Datadog. If this is merged it makes it a lot easier to move out of datadog into something else.

I entered the job market right after the dotcom crash. It was A LOT worse then.

My advice is learn to interview. What I mean by that is if you don't know something don't just say. No sure. Ask if you can try to walk your way through it with the person and if you get stuck or don't know something ask the interviewer for help. What that shows is you want to learn

remember people, most employment lawyers work on contingency for this reason. They only get paid if you win. Most people don't know that and think it'll be too expensive to take on their old company

So the home is southern facing and was full of windows on the southern side. So even with windows open/shades down the heat from the sun would still radiate in.

When I bought the home I had a company come to help me plan the heating and I don't fully understand the science but the home is built to keep heat in with the windows and no attic.

all the temps are in F.

The hyper heat can pull 120Fish heat down to -15F

15 or so years ago I worked in a small company that specialized in wind predictions and was me and 10 meteorologists

I remember them saying Accuweather is close to the main campus of Penn State which has a large meteorology program. They were saying if you joined accuweather and quit you couldn't work in any weather related field for 5 years after leaving accuweather. Basically the NDA locked you in and you were a prisoner.

I had a home in the CO mountains at 10k feet above sea level. I was looking at heat pumps since the house was electric baseboard and running a gas line was gonna cost $18k just for the line to the home.

I decided on heat pumps and was lucky enough to find a reseller of Mitsubishi who mentioned his contacts there were looking for a cold climate home in elevation that wanted heat pumps to prove their tech.

Long story short, I put in heat pumps at a fraction of the cost of what it would normally cost. Now the benefit of the mountains as opposed to Denver is it rarely gets below 0 even if Denver is -15 the mountain low might be -5ish.

Yes efficiency goes down the colder it gets but when I owned the home I never had to supplement the heat pumps to keep the house warm. It would pull 120F heat when it was -5 out. Again when its -5 natural gas is a lot more efficient but the idea is its not -5 all year. The first year I had them my electric bill averaged $650ish to $310. Also I got AC in the summer as a bonus.

  Location: Colorado - Remote only
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: Kubernetes / AWS / Terraform 
  Résumé/CV: on request
  Email: kubernetes_sre@protonmail.com

Resume can be given on demand. I have co-workers that love these threads.

I've been in the Devops/SRE space for 21 years. I've been using Kubernetes in production on large clusters for over 5 years now. I've saved companies 40%+ of their AWS bill by utilizing autoscaling and spot heavily with great success.

Looking for a new role where I'm working in a fast paced environment and help them with their cloud/kubernetes experiences.

my wife almost fell for one because she needed to do an amazon return.

She Googled "Amazon support phone number" on her phone and the 2nd link had a 800 number but it was a site either legit or setup by scammers to review the phone number. She called it and figured someone was funny when they asked her to install an app on her phone.

much like clean coal

if you garage the car it should be ok. I'm outside of Denver and this latest cold spell at night was -22 and my garage temp sensor was 52.

Ya EVs aren't fun in cold areas if you don't have a garage or on a road trip

so they have a chart that shows the top 1% holding more things like stock/mutual funds as a % then realestate. Of course they do they probably get loaded with it from companies they create or join as an exec.

As a part time real estate investor and someone that started owning when I graduated college its a cheat code to being independently wealthy. How else can one get a bank to leverage 80% of the risk but if I sell they don't get a any of the equity gains.

I also can 1031 gains into more rentals and not pay tax on the sale not to mention depreciation.

I have my kids college paid for and retirement setup thanks to realestate. Not to mention my kids will be given at least 6 units to either collect rent or sell.

Sure don't view your home as an investment but to say the rich dont see the importance of real estate is nuts. While I think homes should be affordable to everyone and housing shouldn't be seen as an investment its the world we live in and I like many many other people before me used to set themselves up for long term success.

  Location: Colorado - Remote only
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: Kubernetes / AWS / Terraform 
  Résumé/CV: on request
  Email: kubernetes_sre@protonmail.com

Resume can be given on demand. I have co-workers that love these threads.

I've been in the Devops/SRE space for 21 years. I've been using Kubernetes in production on large clusters for over 5 years now. I've saved companies 40%+ of their AWS bill by utilizing autoscaling and spot heavily with great success.

Looking for a new role where I'm working in a fast paced environment and help them with their cloud/kubernetes experiences.

4runner is as close as you'll get. The drive train really hasn't changed in almost 15 years.

I'm not a woman hater or pro-man.

Maybe because marriage isn't as beneficial as it was 50 years ago? Young people can't afford to buy a home and start a family. So why rush to get married and bring kids into the world. Women are working a lot more and having great careers they don't want to leave.

  Location: Colorado - Remote only
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: Kubernetes / AWS / Terraform 
  Résumé/CV: on request
  Email: kubernetes_sre@protonmail.com

Resume can be given on demand. I have co-workers that love these threads.

I've been in the Devops/SRE space for 21 years. I've been using Kubernetes in production on large clusters for over 5 years now. I've saved companies 40%+ of their AWS bill by utilizing autoscaling and spot heavily with great success.

Looking for a new role where I'm working in a fast paced environment and help them with their cloud/kubernetes experiences.

gotta feed them though so still energy needed

My wife is friends someone a DD sales person. I had no idea what her husband did for a living since I didn't know either. So we go over to their house for dinner and he finds out I'm head of a devops/SRE team and I got a DD sales pitch for close to 2 hours.

I've never wanted to excuse myself to the bathroom and just sit in there doing nothing all night more in all my life.

till they find out what it now costs to insure a home in Florida if you want wind/flood added to your policy

waiting for the first group of people to speed run this

That's the thing, my grandfather started it and my dad and uncle took it over. My uncle passed years ago due to cancer. So it was just my dad.

My whole life growing up he told me he was making me do all the dirty work for his friends who were in the trades and to drive loader for him so I would go to college and get an office job. He didn't want me to take it over.

My grandfather on the other hand wanted to give me 75k out of highschool in 1997 to start a general contracting company. I'm 43 now and some days sitting in my office, I wish i took my grandfathers advice and did that.

I loved working on computers in the 90s. I was lucky as my mom was a programmer in the late 70s so I always had a computer around the house. That said if one of my kids didn't seem like school was for them I would 100% tell them a good career path is in the trades.

I have a neighbor thats a general contractor and he takes his family on first class flights and staying at night hotels. All because he buys everything on his amex card and takes vacations on points. He lives better then I do and we are about the same age. So ya its a good career option in my opinion.

I'm still big into competitive soccer and the Denver area is the same. Most leagues are even waiving the requirement to be certified. All you need is playing experience. My kids games are reffed by 12 year olds.

I'm gen X so sort of right in the middle. I consider my generation on of the last of the american dream is attainable for the average worker.

I was able to buy a home in my early 20s and climb the wealth ladder. I busted my ass working a 40hr a week job and doing side hustles to make it happen.

If you are looking for a home now outside a major city and don't want a 2hr commute things are so slim even if you work your butt off why do it then?

Its not that they don't want to work its why work? Its not a work issue but its a wage issue. Wages haven't kept up with inflation and cost of college.

Kids have been pushed by their parents to take office jobs when they could be making 2 times what they are currently working if they went into a trade.

My dad owned a sand/gravel company and sold it because he couldn't find young people that wanted to drive a truck or run a frontend loader. He was offering $25/hr in a low cost of living area and no one wanted to do it because they've heard since they were 8 years old how bad working with your hands are and they should get an office job

ya last night my walmart had a few plus they are all over online stores now

softwood is horrible to use. The resin in it burns up and gums up in the chimney and can cause chimney fires.

Ya its free but also burns quick and doesn't put out enough heat.

I was renovating a home 9500 feet above sea level in the Colorado mountains with baseboard heat. The bills were 800-1200 a month in winters because it was an all electric home built before the gas was run in the community.

I reached out the Mitsubishi and shocked they got back to me so quick about how they wanted to prove their hyper heat systems could handle 9500 feet above sea level and getting down to -10F.

Long story short I got all the labor free and the equipment at 60% off and they said if I was unhappy they'd remove the system for free.

100% happy. Heat pumps are the greatest thing because the home doesn't go through this massive hot/cold cycle. They might stay running at 10% once they get to temps to keep it at the temps.

My bills went from 800-1200 in winter to 400ish. The bonus was I got AC during the summers when needed.

I told my wife when out HVAC goes out we are 100% switching to heat pumps

its fast growing coral which is great but fast growing also means fast dieing. You need bio-diveristy in a reef

once CA dries up the person above will then complain their food prices rose 4-5x because CA can't produce any food for them anymore.

How about CA trades food for water.

my 2019 4runner is running great. Mostly because they haven't really changed anything with it cept the look since 2012