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Some GitOps happening.
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mortolian/README.md

👋 Hi, I’m Gideon / Mortolian

Senior DevOps / Platform Architect focused on building reliable, scalable systems that support real businesses and real teams.

My open-source work reflects how I design, automate, and maintain production systems — with clarity, pragmatism, and long-term operability in mind.

🧭 What I Do

I design and evolve platforms at the intersection of:

  • Cloud infrastructure & Kubernetes
  • Automation, CI/CD, and GitOps
  • Data-driven systems and AI-enabled workflows
  • Engineering practices that scale with teams

I’m especially interested in reducing operational friction and making complex systems boring to run.

🛠 How I Work

  • I favor simple architectures that age well
  • I automate to reduce cognitive load, not to impress
  • I document decisions so systems are understandable years later
  • I treat infrastructure as a product, not a side effect

If you’re reviewing my profile as part of a hiring or collaboration process:
this GitHub is intentionally representative of how I think and build.

🧰 Technical Focus

Platforms & Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes · Helm · Terraform · Ansible
  • CI/CD pipelines · GitOps · Observability
  • Linux · Containers · Cloud-native design

Languages

  • Python · JavaScript · Bash

Cloud

  • AWS · Azure · Docker

Engineering Practices

  • Testing & validation
  • Security-minded automation
  • API and system design
  • Reliability & maintainability first

📂 Selected Work

These repositories are small by design and production-minded in approach:

Project Focus
iac-ansible Practical automation patterns for infrastructure
rsync-remote-backup Reliable backup tooling with operational clarity
code-js-cidr Networking utilities built for correctness and reuse
code-js-tictactoe Simple system with tests — intentionally readable

Each project reflects design choices I’d stand behind in production.

📈 GitHub Activity

GitHub Stats

🤝 Collaboration & Opportunities

I’m open to:

  • Senior DevOps / Platform / Architecture roles
  • Advisory or consulting engagements
  • Open-source collaboration

If you’re evaluating technical depth, system thinking, or engineering judgment,
I’m happy to discuss the design decisions behind any of my work instead of doing contrived coding tests.

🔗 Elsewhere

Thanks for stopping by.

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  1. code-js-tictactoe code-js-tictactoe Public

    This is a code challenge in javascript, to create a simple Tic Tac Toe game.

    JavaScript 2

  2. code-js-cidr code-js-cidr Public

    CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) calculators are simple tools to assist you to calculate a block of IP addresses.

    JavaScript 2

  3. rsync-remote-backup rsync-remote-backup Public

    This is a very simple tool which facilitates the automated backup of a linux or unix source path to a local path using rsync.

    Python

  4. iac-ansible iac-ansible Public

    This is my templates repo for everything Ansible. I use Ansible to automate bulk tasks over all my servers and I am building out my library of playbooks and basic Ansible setup in this repo.

  5. php-code-templates php-code-templates Public

    This is a library of example code I use to start or plan projects in PHP.

    PHP

  6. ssh-add-gitkeep ssh-add-gitkeep Public

    This is just a simple script I use with larger projects or complex file systems which has a lot of empty folders the system needs to function.

    Shell 2