https://traversannan.com/tags/uncategorized/Recent content in uncategorized on Travers Annan's personal site/blog/dumpsterHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usFri, 07 Feb 2025 18:58:35 -0500https://traversannan.com/about/Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:58:35 -0500https://traversannan.com/about/About I&rsquo;m a cloud engineer. I spend most of my time making AWS cheaper and harder to break into. I&rsquo;ve worked on a bit of everything—cost optimization, security guardrails, serverless backends, static site hosting, CI/CD pipelines, and the occasional &ldquo;why is this Lambda timing out&rdquo; mystery. I&rsquo;ve made plenty of mistakes along the way, which is where most of the useful stuff I write comes from. I like Go, Terraform, and terminal UIs.<h1 id="about">About</h1> <p>I&rsquo;m a cloud engineer. I spend most of my time making AWS cheaper and harder to break into.</p> <p>I&rsquo;ve worked on a bit of everything—cost optimization, security guardrails, serverless backends, static site hosting, CI/CD pipelines, and the occasional &ldquo;why is this Lambda timing out&rdquo; mystery. I&rsquo;ve made plenty of mistakes along the way, which is where most of the useful stuff I write comes from.</p> <p>I like Go, Terraform, and terminal UIs. I think Kubernetes is usually overkill and serverless is usually underrated. I&rsquo;m probably wrong about at least one of those.</p> <h2 id="favorite-tools">Favorite Tools</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Infra</strong>: OpenTofu, SST, Serverless Framework</li> <li><strong>Languages</strong>: Go, Python, Rust (still learning)</li> <li><strong>CI/CD</strong>: GitHub Actions, GitLab</li> <li><strong>Editor</strong>: Neovim, Cursor</li> </ul> <h2 id="get-in-touch">Get in Touch</h2> <p><a href="https://linkedin.com/in/traversannan">LinkedIn</a> · <a href="https://github.com/Trav55555">GitHub</a></p> <p>Or just <a href="mailto:travers@traversannan.com">email me</a>. I like hearing from people who are building things.</p>