Stack
No self-rated percentages. Each tool has a tier, the year I started, and where I used it.
Cloud
| NAME | TIER | SINCE | USED IN |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, ECR) | daily | 2020 | Balanced Media & Technology, SharePlay Interactive |
| Cloudflare Workers / R2 | built | — | aethyriion.dev |
Containers & orchestration
| NAME | TIER | SINCE | USED IN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes (EKS, k3s) | daily | 2020 | Balanced Media & Technology, SharePlay Interactive, homelab |
| Docker | daily | — | Balanced Media & Technology, SharePlay Interactive |
| Helm (Terraform provider, ArgoCD) | shipped | — | Balanced Media & Technology, homelab |
| Kustomize | built | — | homelab |
| MetalLB / Traefik | built | — | homelab |
| Harbor | built | — | homelab |
| cert-manager | built | — | homelab |
Infrastructure as code
| NAME | TIER | SINCE | USED IN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terraform / HCL | daily | 2020 | Balanced Media & Technology, aethyriion.dev |
| NixOS & flakes | daily | — | Balanced Media & Technology, homelab, devbox |
| agenix / sealed-secrets | built | — | devbox, homelab |
CI/CD & GitOps
| NAME | TIER | SINCE | USED IN |
|---|---|---|---|
| CircleCI (custom runners & images) | daily | 2020 | Balanced Media & Technology, SharePlay Interactive |
| Docker layer caching / sccache | shipped | — | Balanced Media & Technology |
| GitHub Actions | shipped | — | Balanced Media & Technology, aethyriion.dev |
| ArgoCD | shipped | — | SharePlay Interactive, homelab |
| Argo Workflows / Flux | built | — | homelab |
Observability & reliability
| NAME | TIER | SINCE | USED IN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prometheus / Grafana | shipped | 2020 | Balanced Media & Technology, homelab |
| Cost-anomaly detection | shipped | — | Balanced Media & Technology |
| Health checks & Slack escalation | shipped | — | SharePlay Interactive |
Languages
| NAME | TIER | SINCE | USED IN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rust | shipped | 2023 | SharePlay Interactive, Balanced Media & Technology, homelab |
| Go | shipped | 2018 | Selfscale, Balanced Media & Technology |
| TypeScript / JavaScript | shipped | 2016 | Freelance, Selfscale, Balanced Media & Technology |
| Python | shipped | 2018 | Selfscale, beamng-lua-stubs |
| Java | shipped | — | Balanced Media & Technology |
| C++ | shipped | 2018 | Selfscale |
| Bash | daily | — | |
| Nix | daily | — | Balanced Media & Technology, homelab, devbox |
| Lua | shipped | 2020 | Freelance, fivem-webbed, beamng-lua-stubs |
Data stores
| NAME | TIER | SINCE | USED IN |
|---|---|---|---|
| PostgreSQL | shipped | — | Balanced Media & Technology, SharePlay Interactive |
| MySQL | shipped | — | Balanced Media & Technology, Selfscale |
| DynamoDB | shipped | — | Balanced Media & Technology |
| Redis | shipped | — | SharePlay Interactive |
Frontend (enough to ship tools)
| NAME | TIER | SINCE | USED IN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vue / Nuxt | shipped | 2018 | Selfscale, SharePlay Interactive |
| React | shipped | — | Balanced Media & Technology |
| Svelte / Tauri | shipped | — | Balanced Media & Technology, homelab |
| Astro / Tailwind / Vite | built | — | |
| Nx monorepos | built | — |
Hardware & protocols
| NAME | TIER | SINCE | USED IN |
|---|---|---|---|
| RS232 / microcontrollers | shipped | 2018 | Selfscale |
Game & modding
| NAME | TIER | SINCE | USED IN |
|---|---|---|---|
| FiveM / RedM (CitizenFX) | shipped | 2017 | Freelance, fivem-webbed |
| BeamNG.drive | built | — | beamng-lua-stubs |
AI / LLM platforms
| NAME | TIER | SINCE | USED IN |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI API | shipped | — | Balanced Media & Technology |
| LLM agent platforms (hybrid cloud / on-prem data access) | shipped | — | Balanced Media & Technology |
| Self-hosted LLM inference (Ollama) | built | — | homelab |
try about, experience, projects, stack, contact, neofetch · gui or ` to switch back · Esc for vim keys
stephen@aethyriion.dev
- Role
- Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer
- Uptime
- 10 years, 5 roles
- Location
- Ohio, USA · Remote
- Projects
- 5 listed · 2 open source · ★22
- Cloud
- AWS · EKS · Terraform
- Langs
- Rust · Go · TypeScript · Python
- Delivery
- CircleCI · GitHub Actions · ArgoCD
- Metrics
- Prometheus · Grafana
- Homelab
- k3s · 32 LB services · 45 ingress hosts
- Dotfiles
- NixOS flakes · Neovim · Hyprland
Welcome to aethyriion.dev (10 years of uptime). Type help to see what's installed.
stephen@aethyriion.dev
- Role
- Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer
- Uptime
- 10 years, 5 roles
- Location
- Ohio, USA · Remote
- Projects
- 5 listed · 2 open source · ★22
- Cloud
- AWS · EKS · Terraform
- Langs
- Rust · Go · TypeScript · Python
- Delivery
- CircleCI · GitHub Actions · ArgoCD
- Metrics
- Prometheus · Grafana
- Homelab
- k3s · 32 LB services · 45 ingress hosts
- Dotfiles
- NixOS flakes · Neovim · Hyprland
# Stephen Rhodes: Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer
I'm Stephen, a platform engineer who has spent about a decade turning fragile infrastructure into something boring and reliable. I am always looking to learn and expand my skillset.
## focus
- ▸ Platform engineering on AWS (EKS, Terraform)
- ▸ CI/CD that stays fast
- ▸ Reproducible environments with Nix
- ▸ Observability and cost control
Ohio, USA · Remote · stephen@aethyriion.dev
| NAME | ROLE | SINCE | UNTIL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balanced Media & Technology | Software Engineer (DevOps Lead) | Nov 2020 | Aug 2026 |
| SharePlay Interactive | Backend / DevOps Engineer (part-time contract) | Sep 2023 | Feb 2024 |
| Independent | Software Engineer | Jan 2020 | Oct 2020 |
| Selfscale | Lead Software Engineer | Jan 2018 | Dec 2019 |
| Freelance | Independent Software Engineer | 2016 | 2025 |
▸ Balanced Media & Technology · Ran DevOps and platform engineering for the Hewmen AI data platform: EKS, CI, IAM and developer environments.
Services 11 · EKS clusters prod + 2 staging · Engineers 12 · CI build 40m → 8m
▸ SharePlay Interactive · Part-time: redesigned a live-streaming product as Rust microservices on Kubernetes and owned its platform and CI/CD.
Streaming multi-region · Team < 5 · Onboarding ≤ 1 day
▸ Independent · Full-time independent engineering between Selfscale and Balanced Media.
▸ Selfscale · Built a truck weigh-in product end to end as its only software engineer, from RS232 scales to the cloud.
Pipeline RS232 → cloud
▸ Freelance · Independent server software, APIs and tooling for online communities.
Concurrent users 200+
details: cd experience
## featured
- homelabNix privProduction-grade Kubernetes, in my house, rebuilt from one Nix flake.
- aethyriion.devTypeScript privThis site: a static TUI in the browser, shipped by Terraform.
- devboxNix privMy dev machine as a pure function.
- beamng-lua-stubsLua ★3IntelliSense for BeamNG.drive modding: 1000+ API stubs, generated.
- fivem-webbedLua ★19Express.js-style REST routing inside a GTA V server.
details: cd projects/<name> · case study: homelab
{ # tiers: daily shipped built familiar
cloud = ["AWS (EKS, EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, ECR)" "Cloudflare Workers / R2"];
orchestration = ["Kubernetes (EKS, k3s)" "Docker" "Helm (Terraform provider, ArgoCD)" "Kustomize" "MetalLB / Traefik" "Harbor" "cert-manager"];
iac = ["Terraform / HCL" "NixOS & flakes" "agenix / sealed-secrets"];
delivery = ["CircleCI (custom runners & images)" "Docker layer caching / sccache" "GitHub Actions" "ArgoCD" "Argo Workflows / Flux"];
observability = ["Prometheus / Grafana" "Cost-anomaly detection" "Health checks & Slack escalation"];
languages = ["Rust" "Go" "TypeScript / JavaScript" "Python" "Java" "C++" "Bash" "Nix" "Lua"];
data = ["PostgreSQL" "MySQL" "DynamoDB" "Redis"];
frontend = ["Vue / Nuxt" "React" "Svelte / Tauri" "Astro / Tailwind / Vite" "Nx monorepos"];
hardware = ["RS232 / microcontrollers"];
gamedev = ["FiveM / RedM (CitizenFX)" "BeamNG.drive"];
ai = ["OpenAI API" "LLM agent platforms (hybrid cloud / on-prem data access)" "Self-hosted LLM inference (Ollama)"];
}
[contact]
email = "stephen@aethyriion.dev" # 'email' copies it
github = "github.com/aethyriion"
linkedin = "www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-e-rhodes"
resume = "/resume.pdf"
location = "Ohio, USA · Remote"
status = "open" # Open to senior and staff platform, DevOps and backend roles: remote, on-site or relocation.
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE aws 1/1 Running 0 6y cloudflare 1/1 Completed 1 — kubernetes 1/1 Running 0 6y docker 1/1 Running 0 — helm 1/1 Running 1 — kustomize 1/1 Completed 1 — metallb 1/1 Completed 1 — harbor 1/1 Completed 1 — cert-manager 1/1 Completed 1 — terraform 1/1 Running 0 6y nixos 1/1 Running 0 — agenix 1/1 Completed 1 — circleci 1/1 Running 0 6y docker 1/1 Running 1 — github 1/1 Running 1 — argocd 1/1 Running 1 — argo 1/1 Completed 1 — prometheus 1/1 Running 1 6y cost-anomaly 1/1 Running 1 — health 1/1 Running 1 — rust 1/1 Running 1 3y go 1/1 Running 1 8y typescript 1/1 Running 1 10y python 1/1 Running 1 8y java 1/1 Running 1 — c- 1/1 Running 1 8y bash 1/1 Running 0 — nix 1/1 Running 0 — lua 1/1 Running 1 6y postgresql 1/1 Running 1 — mysql 1/1 Running 1 — dynamodb 1/1 Running 1 — redis 1/1 Running 1 — vue 1/1 Running 1 8y react 1/1 Running 1 — svelte 1/1 Running 1 — astro 1/1 Completed 1 — nx 1/1 Completed 1 — rs232 1/1 Running 1 8y fivem 1/1 Running 1 9y beamng-drive 1/1 Completed 1 — openai 1/1 Running 1 — llm 1/1 Running 1 — self-hosted 1/1 Completed 1 —