Michael Colletti Independent Consultant

Michael G. Colletti 
Cloud, DevOps, Platforms, Containers LLMOps  
resume@cpossibilities.com
Vox: (845) 675-0184
Git: https://github.com/michaelcolletti
Labs: https://github.com/cpitraininglabs
Resume: (https://michaelcolletti.github.io/me/resume)
Fediverse: https://hachyderm.io/@LegacyWhisperer

  • Credly Profile | GCP Certified | AWS Developer | Terraform Certified

  • Lifelong learner inspired by DevOps culture, principles, practices and tools

  • Solid communicator, cross-functional team collaborator & Individual Contributor
  • Opensource advocate, Ops and Infra-nerd, Architect and Monitoring savant
  • Passions: Kubernetes, Cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), Automation, Infrastructure as Code, Opensource/DevOps Toolchains, Toil elimination, Infra Modernization, Music
  • Previous Lives: Unix/Linux Sysadmin, DBA, Systems/Technical Architect, Monitoring and CRM/ERP SME, Solutions Architect, Ops specialist, Migration Architect
  • Current Vibe: LLMs, GenAI and Operationalizing AI

Latest Projects

Spring 2024 Wooot! and the world of tech is in a place that moves so fast that the groundbreaking announcements are almost on a daily hourly cadence! Attending all the Hackathons and learning what I can as fast as possible. The last time I remember things seeming this fast was 30+ years ago with in Perez's Installation period. Web commererce and Internet and distributed systems were are quite the rage but the pace was almost glacial compared to the accelerated advancements of 2024. Needless to say I am furiously learning all the things and documenting a great deal of my work in CPI Labs and pesonal git repos for projects. These include: project Sonteria, Lomaxes Everywhere and several Data projects (DocumentAI, BookMarkBuddy, MailSens)e that will hopefully see better progress with new toolings.

In 2021 I dove into Cloud and Enterprise Architecture as a Moderization and Migration Architect at a large infrastructure company. I have developed methods of making discovery more effective and streamlining automation for Migration SMEs. My role has permitted me to explore the capabilities of some of the coolest new developments in Kubernetes, AWS, GCP and Azure services, Service Mesh, Moderization, and Migration Tooling. Also I have been able to help teams and orgs with their efforts to promote and leverage modern tool stacks, replacing their legacy infrastructures and practices with more optimal tooling and ways of working. Some of my role is implementing new technologies and discovering product capabilities and use-cases in the open-source and devops toolchains, part as a tool and technology evangelist helping with adoption, and part as a cross-team/geo consultant and advisor for executives and teams.

Cloud

Containers, Kubernetes, Automation, Modernization and Observability

  • Containerization: Docker, podman/buildah, OCIs/runtimes, building Docker images
  • Orchestration: Kubernetes (managed and on-premises local clusters) Nomad
  • IaC, SCM, and CI/CD: Terraform, Pulumi, env0, CloudFormation, ARM templates/Bicep, Git and GitLab, Jenkins
  • Config Management: Ansible, assorted frameworks and godless scripts
  • Observability and Monitoring* eBPF, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, Certified Zabbix Specialist/Professional, CloudWatch, Nagios and Legacy stacks
  • Modernization: CAST, CAST Highlight
  • Tracing: BPF/bpftrace, tcpdump, Jaeger, DTrace
  • GitHub Repos
  • Service Mesh: Cilium, Istio, Linkerd

DevOps

Operating Systems & Databases

  • Linux: RHEL6-8.x/CentOS, Ubuntu 20, Alpine 3.15, SUSE 9-11, zLinux, Slackware et al
  • DBA/RDBMS: RDS, MariaDB (Multi-Primary), MySQL, DB2, Oracle, MS SQL Server, BI and DW solutions
  • Web: Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, ALB/ELB, Auto Scaling (k8s, AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Storage: S3, GCS, Azure Storage, EBS, EFS, GPD, CSIs, NetApp, NFS, AFS, DFS, GPFS
  • Data Stores/NoSQL: MongoDB, DynamoDB
  • Reporting: Grafana, Graphite, Cognos, BIRT, Business Objects, SSRS, Actuate
  • Network: Tools SME (RMON and SNMP), Obeservability, Service Mesh and Discovery
  • Enterprise: ERP (SAP Basis 4.x), CRM (Siebel 7.04)
  • Legacy OSes: Solaris, AIX (certified ACP), HP/UX

Scripting and Languages

  • Scripting: BASH, Python, PowerShell, Korn, PERL
  • DSL: YAML, JSON
  • IDE/ISE: VSCode, vim, Cloud9, Eclipse, Powershell ISE, PostMan
  • Dev: Familiar with many dev stacks, compilers (gcc, xlC, cc, c++, make, gmake) etc.

Some Small Projects

  • Terraform stand up of small AWS infrastructure (VPCS, private/public subnets, IGW, NATGW, SG, NACLS, EC2, S3, EFS)

  • Stand up of GKE cluster in GCP. Deployment of monitoring stack via Helm and simple pipelines with Tekton.