Tech Portfolio

Flox

The Intro to Flox series explains the tool's functions in the most basic possible terms. I think I chose the right things to highlight, especially for a product with a ton of surface area.

• Intro to the Flox CLI, Part One: Easy Environments
• Intro to the Flox CLI, Part Two: Aliases, Vars, and Hooks
• Intro to the Flox CLI, Part Three: Cloning, Pushing, and Pulling

I performed final approval on the entire Blog and Popular Packages sections of flox.dev, and in most cases I provided the "technical proof" to our staff writer. However, I did write some articles entirely:

• Run ComfyUI Anywhere With Flox
• Adding 1Password Secrets to Flox Environments
• Auto Environment Activation with Direnv + Flox
• Using Jupyter Notebooks with Flox
• Run Containers Easily with Podman + Flox
• Python - Flox Docs

At Flox, I used Databox to build dashboards for most of our needs. However, studying product usage was different; the data was in S3, but Databox required it to be in a very specific tabular format. One of our engineers built an S3 to Redshift pipeline using AWS Glue, and I created some downstream models to make the data easily consumable by Databox.

Astronomer

I made a lot of contributions to Astronomer's data warehouse in the form of new community data sources: GitHub stargazers, Matomo, Apache mailing list archives, Stack Overflow, Awario, DockerHub, Homebrew, and others. In each case, I used Airflow to query the external data source, normalize the data into a specific dataframe structure for import, and build downstream models and metrics tables. Sadly, I no longer have access to any of this.

I did create a few articles and talks about OpenLineage:

• How I Study Open Source Community Growth with dbt | dbt Developer Blog
• Using Marquez to Visualize dbt Models (covering similar ground)
• What is data lineage and why should I care

Anchore

While at Anchore, I delivered a talk at the RSA conference showcasing my ability to create compelling visual language for complicated topics.

• Proactive Container Security for the Masses

Red Hat

I spent a long time at Red Hat, and I gave the Intro to Ceph talk a whole bunch of times. This is what it looked like after a few years of refinement, when I really knew what I was talking about.

• 2014 #vBrownBag OpenStack Summit Atlanta Ross Turk Introduction to Ceph Project for OpenStack

I also wrote an article that, I hope, shows how amazing UNIX is and why I've committed my entire life to its ideals:

• (Linux and) The Enduring Magic of Unix