Ethan K. Francis
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Kube Pod Self-Healer
Watches failing Kubernetes pods and auto-fixes common problems like crash loops and out-of-memory kills
Observability Toolkit
Custom metrics plus deliberate failure tests to prove monitoring and alerts actually work
ML Production Pipeline
Train a model, serve predictions, and get alerted when live data drifts from what it learned on
Edge Observability with Prometheus
Custom Cloudflare metrics exporter for fewer false alerts and a clearer picture of edge traffic
OpenSearch Migration at Scale
Led ElasticSearch to OpenSearch migration with single sign-on and staged rollouts per environment
RabbitMQ Video Processing Pipeline
Queue-backed video resize API that accepts requests fast and does heavy work in background workers
HedgeDoc Team Rollout
Self-hosted collaborative markdown so teams could replace scattered email threads with searchable shared docs
Kubernetes Internal Load Balancing
HAProxy internal load balancers on one of our first Kubernetes clusters, volunteered when the platform was still greenfield
Ticket Queue Manager and PATRA
Merge duplicate alert tickets automatically; renew expiring pipeline tokens before they break builds