Portfolio

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Code Repositories

Sample Work

GitLab
- GitLab Snippets
GitHub
- gist
Bitbucket
Codeberg
Gitea

Portfolio of Tools, Methodologies and Technologies

Documentation Tooling
- Markdown (.md)
- ReadTheDocs
- Sphinx
- TikiWiki
- Confluence (Atlassian)

Pipelines
- GitLab CICD
  - GitLab Runner
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- CircleCI
- TravisCI
- Jenkins
- Bamboo

Containerization
- Cri-o
- containerd
- Docker
  - Docker Shim
  - Docker Compose
  - Docker Desktop
  - Docker Hub
- Quay
- Podman
- Conductor OSS

Container Orchestration
- Kubernetes (K8s)
  - kubectl
  - kubeadm
  - k9s
  - Kubernetes Secrets (K8s native functionality)
  - Helm
    - Helm charts: Consumption
    - Helm charts: Development
  - K8s Service Mesh
    - Istio
  - Rancher
  - K8s Observability Tooling
    - K8sLens (K8sLens.dev aka “Lens”)
    - Kubernetes Dashboard (native K8s)
    - Octant
  - K8s Networking
    - Container Network Interface (CNI)
      - kube-router
      - flannel
      - Calico
      - Canal (Flannel + Calico)
      - WeaveNet
      - Cilium
    - K8s Ingress Controllers
      - Kong
      - nginx
      - Cilium
      - Traefik
      - HAProxy
      - Istio

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and Infrastructure Management
- Terraform
- OpenTofu
- Ansible
- Chef
- Puppet
- SaltStack (Salt by VMware)
- Rudder
- Cloud-Vendor Specific IaC
  - Amazon Web Services IaC
    - AWS CloudFormation
    - AWS CDK (AWS Cloud Development Kit)
  - Microsoft Azure IaC
    - Azure Resource Manager Templates
  - Google Compute Platform IaC
    - Deployment Manager

Secrets Management and Tokenization
- Hashicorp Vault
- SOPS (Secrets OPerationS)
- Akeyless
- Infisicial
- Delinea
- Conjur
- Bitwarden Secrets Manager
- Azure DevOps Tokenization (Using Azure DevOps Server)
- Cloud Vender Specific Secrets Management
  - AWS
  - Azure
  - GCP
  - OracleCloud
  - GitHub Secrets
  - GitLab Secrets
  - Cloudflare Secrets Store

GitOps
- git (generic git usage)
  - git UI tools
    - git VSCode extentions
    - GitKraken

Cloud-Vendor configurations
- Amazon Web Service (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure (Azure)
- Google Computing Services (GCP)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Digital Ocean (DO)
- Linode
- Vultr
- IONOS

Bare Metal Hypervisors (Leased Racks and On-Premises Virtualization)
- XCP-ng (Vates)
  - XenOrchestra Appliance (XOA)
    - Virtual Machine Management
    - Virtual Storage Management
    - XCP-ng Virtual Machine Backups, Snapshots & Disaster Recover (DR) Tools
- XenServer (Citrix)
  - XenCenter
  - vApps
- libvirt
  - virt-manager (VMM)
  - Boxes
  - Cockpit
- VMWare
- VirtualBox
- ProxMox

Identity Access Management (IAM aka IDAM)
- LDAP (Lightweight Firectory Access Protocol)
- AD (Active Directory)

Platform Engineering
- Observability, Monitoring, Metrics
  - OpenSearch Stack
  - ElasticSearch Stack
    - Kibana
    - Logstash
    - Beats
  - Grafana Stack
    - Grafana
    - Loki
    - Tempo
    - Mimir
    - Pyroscope
  - SigNoz
  - Datadog
  - Greylog
  - Prometheus
  - Dynatrace
    - Dynatrace Managed
  - Jaeger (Tracing)
  - Nagios XI
  - New Relic
  - PRTG Network Monitor
- Logging & Data Collectors
  - Fluentd
  - Fluent Bit
  - syslog-ng
  - Flume (by Apache)

Search Technologies (Information Retrieval)
- SearXNG
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Linux Distributions (and package repos)
- Debian-based (DEB-based)
  - Debian
  - Ubuntu
  - Kali Linux (Security / Penetration Testing)
- RHEL-based (RPM-based)
  - Red Hat Linux (now Oracle)
  - Fedora Linux
    - Fedora Server
    - Fedora Workstation
    - Fedora CoreOS
- Alpine Linux (APK)
- NixOS
- FreeBSD (*UNIX)
- Cloud Vendor Specific Linux Images
  - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Linux
    - Amazon Linux 2
    - Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023)
  - Microsoft Azure (Azure) Linux
    - Azure Linux
  - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Linux
    - Oracle Linux 9

Linux Administration
- grub
- Debian-based (deb-based)
- RHEL-based (rpm-based)
- Arch-based
- systemd
- services
- init
- modprobe
- printenv (export variables)
- Disk Storage Management and Manipulation
  - fstab
  - mount / umount
  - fdisk
  - Disk Imaging
    - ISO
    - img
- User Management
  - “root” User
  - Linux User Groups Management and Permissions
    - useradd
    - usermod
    - deluser
  - sudoers and wheel
    - visudo
    - sudo
    - doas
  - System Users
  - /home/ for Linux Users
  - ~/.profile (shell)
- File Permissions and Management Manipulation
  - Files and Folders
    - tee
    - touch
    - mkdir
    - cp
    - rm
    - compress / extract (zip, 7z, tarball, etc)
  - chmod (File and Folder Permissions)
  - chown (File and Folder Ownership)
- Source Code Management and Manipulation
  - make

Linux Networking
- ping
- /etc/network/interface
- cloud-init
- NetworkManager (network-manager)
- netplan
- networkd
  - systemd-networkd
- ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall)
- ip-tables
- ifconfig
- netstat
- socket

Microsoft Product Family
- Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
  - WSL (Windows Subsystem Linux)
    - Docker Desktop for Windows with WSL
    - WSL2 With xfce GUI Desktop
    - WSLs: Multiple Instances of Same Linux Distro
- Microsoft Windows Server
  - AD (Active Directory)
  - Hyper-V on Windows Server
  - Microsoft Configuration Manager
  - Microsoft Intune
  - JAMF
  - Microsoft MSIX
- Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
  - Microsoft SQL Server 2022 Express
  - Microsoft SQL Server 2022 Studio
  - SQL Server Reporting Service (SRSS)

Apple Product Family
- MacOS
  - MacBook (Tricks & Tips)
  - MacMini (Tricks & Tips)
- iOS
- iPadOS
- XCode

Android Product Family
- Android Studio

Networking, IoT & Transport Layer Security (TLS/SSL)
- Load Balancing
  - Network Load Balancing
  - Application Load Balancing
  - Gateway Load Balancing
  - Global Load Balancing
  - Server Load Balancing
- Load Balancing Servers
  - HAProxy
  - nginx
    - F5 nginx Plus
    - F5 BIG-IP
    - F5 nginx Ingress Controller
- Cloudflare
  - DNS
  - Content Delivery Network (CDN)
  - Load Balancing
  - Turnstile
  - Cloudflare Stream
  - Cloudflare Workers
  - Cloudflare SSL (Universal, Custom, Dedicated TLS)
  - Cloudflare Access (Zero Trust & SASE)
    - Cloudflare Tunnel
  - TLS (SSL) certificate handling
    - openssl
    - “Let’s Encrypt”
      - certbot
  - Network File System (NFS)
    - NFS v3
    - NFS v4
    - AWS EFS
    - Azure Files
    - GCP Filestore
    - OCI File Storage
  - Routing, Gateway and Firewall configurations
    - Ubiquiti
    - Linksys
    - NetGear
    - Buffalo
    - TP-Link
    - OpenWRT
    - DD-WRT
    - FreshTomato
    - AsusWRT-Merlin
    - SD-WAN
  - Switching and Bridge configurations
    - Cisco Products
    - Linux-as-a-Switch
  - VPN configurations
    - OpenVPN
    - Wiregaurd
    - Tunnelling
  - OpenSSH (SSH)
    - SSH Tunnelling
  - SCP
  - SFTP/FTP
  - TFTP
  - PXE
  - Kickstart

Security Frameworks and Tools (For Networks and Cybersecurity)
- SIEM Tools
- IDS / IPS Tools (Intrusion Detection Systems) (Intrusion Prevention Systems)
- Wuzah
- Tenable Suite
  - Terrascan
  - Tenable Vulnerability Management
  - Tenable Web App Scanning
  - Nessus
    - Nessus Essentials
    - Nessus Professional
    - Nessus Expert
- OSINT
  - Virus Total
  - MITRE ATT&CK
  - Burp Suite
  - Metasploit Framework
  - ClamAV
  - Wireshark
  - Nmap
  - Npcap
- CAPTCHA (Human Verification)
  - reCAPTCHA
  - hCaptcha
  - ALTCHA
  - mosparo

Databases
- PostgreSQL
  - PostgreSQL Server Installation
  - pgAdmin 4 GUI Configurations
  - PostgreSQL User Administration
  - PostgreSQL Database Engineering
  - PostgreSQL Database Sharding
  - PostgreSQL Query Optimizations
  - PostgreSQL Stored Procedures
  - PostgreSQL Database High Availability
  - PostgreSQL Database Load Balancing
  - PostgreSQL Database Replication
- MySQL and MySQL-compatible
  - MariaDB
  - PerconaDB
    - PerconaDB XtraDB Cluster
- Oracle DB
- Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
- NoSQL
  - MongoDB
    - Mongo Atlas
  - Cassandra
  - CockroachDB
  - DocumentDB (AWS)
  - Cosmos (Azure)
  - Redis
  - Firebase (GCP)
    - Supabase (Firebase Alternative)
    - Convex (Firebase Alternative)
- SQLite
- Graph Databases
  - Neo4j
  - ArangoDB
  - Virtuoso
- Time Series Databases
- Vector Databases
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Apache Kafka (ETL)
  - Zookeeper
- Database Management Tooling
  - SQL Tools
    - HiediSQL (Windows / WINE)
    - SQL Workbench
    - DBeaver
    - Navicat
    - Sequel Pro (Mac)
    - Azure Data Studio
  - NoSQL Tools
    - Studio 3T (formerly Robo 3T, MongoChef, Robomongo)
    - NoSQL Manager
    - MongoDB Compass

Shell Scripting
- BASH (Bourne Again SHell)
- Powershell
  - Powershell Modules
- Zsh (ZShell)
- fish

Server-Side and Scripting Code
- Node.js
  - npm (Node Package Manager)
  - Yarn
- Python
  - Django
  - Flask
  - FastAPI
  - uSWGI
    - Bottle
- PHP
  - Zend
  - Yii
  - Composer
  - WordPress
  - Magento
  - Laravel
- Perl
  - Mojolicious
  - Dancer / Dancer2
  - Catalyst
  - Prototype
- Java
- Ruby
  - Ruby on Rails
- .Net (by Microsoft)
  - C#
  - F#
  - Visual Basic .Net
  - C++
- RUST
- Zig

Front-End Code
- HTML: Templating and Frameworks
  - HTML5 (vanilla)
  - Moustache.js
  - Handlebars.js
  - PUG (Jade)
- CSS and Templating for User Interface (UI)
  - CSS3 (vanilla)
  - Tailwind CSS
  - Bootstrap (Twitter Bootstrap)
  - Material Design
    - Materialize
  - SASS
    - SCSS
  - HTMX
  - Arrow.js
  - Astro.js

JavaScript: Templating and Frameworks
- JavaScript (vanilla)
  - ECMAScript 6 (ES6 aka ECMAScript 2015)
  - ECMAScript
- jQuery
  - jQueryUI
- Express.js
- Next.js
- Vue.js
  - Nuxt.js
- React.js
  - Next.js with React.js
  - Redux
  - MobX
- Ember.js
  - Ember Data
- “Angular” (Angular.io > Angular.dev)

API Platform and Architecting Tools
- Kong
  - Insomnia (by Kong)
- Mulesoft
- Swagger
- Postman
  - Newman
- SoapUI
- Apiary
- Hoppscotch
- Fiddler
- GraphQL
- Tyk Open Source API Gateway
- Express API Gateway
- Cloud Vendor Specific API Gateways
  - AWS API Gateway (Amazon Web Services)
  - Azure API Gateway (Microsoft Azure)

Business Intelligence Tools
- Microsoft
  - SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
  - Power BI
- Tableau
  - Tableau Public
- Domo

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Platforms and Tools
- Odoo
- HubSpot
- Apache OFBiz
- Dolibarr

Artificial Intelligence: Models, Platforms and Tooling
- Large Language Model Types
- AI Large Language Model (LLM) Sources
  - Huggingface (AI LLM Repository)
- Large Language Model UI Tools
  - Text Generation Web UI
  - Ollama
  - LMStudio
- AI Agent / Mixture of Agents (MoA) Tools
  - AutoGen
  - CrewAI
- AI Productivity and Collaboration Tools
  - AnythingLLM
  - LLMStack

Machine Learning:
- TensorFlow
- Apache Spark
- Databricks MLflow

Blockchain Technologies
- Solidity
- FluxNodes
- “Node” Samples

Software Development Management
- Atlassian Suite
  - JIRA
  - Confluence
- OpenProject (JIRA Alternative)
- Basecamp
- GitHub Issues
- GitLab Issues
- Code Reviews
- Release Management

Methodologies
- SCRUM
- Agile
- KanBan
- Waterfall
- SDLC
- Sprint Planning

Portfolio Graveyard

They were fun while they lasted.

Microsoft Office FrontPage (Died in 2003)

Macromedia Product Suite (Bought by Adobe in 2005)
- Studio
- Flash
- Fireworks
- Contribute

Windows RT (Officially died in 2023)