• 👨 He/Him | 🧠 hapless idiot, curious generalist
• 🥸 Also go by "Nate", "Nate Dogg", "Nug Doug", "Nug Diddy", "Niddle Diddle"...
• 💻 ~14 years in software, DevOps, platform & reliability engineering
• 🧠 Now shifting into MLOps, HPC, and simulation infrastructure
• 🎓 Exploring the possibility of a PhD in math, CS, or complexity science
• 🏥 Working at Agile Six on projects with the US Department of Veterans Affairs:
  • VA.gov Modernization (10/2020–02/2024)
  • Patient Check-In (02/2024–present)

A chaos zoo of DevOps/MLOps infrastructure: Kubernetes, Slurm, Nomad, Vault, HAProxy, and more — all deployed on a Pi bramble. Failure injection, distributed systems, observability, emergent behavior. Nothing is sacred. Everything is an experiment.

• 🧰 ansible: Basic setup for my Pi bramble/cluster.
• 👋 .github: My ✨special ✨ repository
• 🚜 terraform: General Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code for Goldentooth
• 🛰️ mcp-server: MCP server for Goldentooth cluster management
• 🧞 agent: Intelligent agent for Goldentooth cluster management
• 🧱 clog: The changelog formerly known as "Kubernetes, the Excruciating Way".
• 🧰 cross-compile-toolkit: Containerized cross-compilation toolkit for ARM64 binaries targeting Raspberry Pi cluster
• 📉 p5js-sketches: P5.js Sketch Server - Static file server for hosting p5.js sketches on Ceph storage
• 🐚 bash: Bash scripts for interacting with GoldenTooth, my Pi Bramble/Cluster
• 📡 httpbin: httpbingo Argo CD application
• 📊 grafana-dashboards: Grafana Dashboards
• 🏛️ cert-manager: cert-manager with step-ca ACME integration for Goldentooth Kubernetes cluster
• 🧲 metallb: MetalLB ArgoCD application
• 📈 kube-state-metrics: Kubernetes object metrics collection for the goldentooth cluster
• 🔐 sealed-secrets: SealedSecrets GitOps repository.
• 🗝️ external-secrets: GitOps repository for ExternalSecrets
• 🌐 external-dns: ExternalDNS GitOps repository.
• 🫀 pulse: Node network effects visualized as a heartbeat.
• 🛣️ roadmap: Planning and researching the future of Goldentooth.
• 🧬 gitops-template: A template for my GitOps repositories.
• 🛡️ asoiaf-noble-house-images: Images derived from arms from noble houses of ASoIaF.

A bridge between real-world engineering and speculative tinkering. Reusable IaC, GitHub Actions, ML experiments, and Rust-based tooling.

• 🚜 terraform: General Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code for Bitterbridge
• 👋 .github: Special Repository
• 🧩 terraform-modules: Reusable Terraform modules for various projects
• ⚙️ github-actions: GHA reusable Actions and Workflows for use in my various repositories
• 🗣️ whispers: Whispers is a self-organizing, belief-driven mesh where nodes propose, verify, and evolve solutions through dynamic, decentralized consensus.
• 🔢 mips-sudoku-solver: A Sudoku solver, written in MIPS R4K assembly.
• 🕴️ resume: My résumé, written in LaTeX, with continuous delivery or something.
• 💻 blackpool: An implementation of the Lox Virtual Machine, written in Rust
• 🧊 unity-hashing-grid: Hashing Grid implementation in Unity
• ☕️ distillation: An experiment with distillation using various combinations of naïve implementations, adversarial training, Jacobian penalties, and approximate Hessian penalties.
• 📈 linear-regression: Simple linear regression implementation in Rust.

My personal creative core: philosophical fragments, PhD proposals, weird blog posts, symbolic systems, magical realism, and dream-logic infrastructure.

• 🚜 terraform: General Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code for Hellholt
• ❓ sillicoin-valley-tycoon: A satirical game about how stupid everything is right now.
• 👋 .github: Special Repository
• 📺 youtube: YouTube channels I archive (and occasionally watch).
• 🧿 dotfiles: My dotfiles, somewhat more reasonably structured.
• 📚 books: Books I want to read, intend to read, am putting off reading, am reading, am taking a break from reading, am finishing, have finished, or desperately want to have finished.
• 🎵 albums: A collection of YAML lists of albums in my listening queue
• 👩 pinkmaiden: A personal image-sharing site for images I find interesting.
• 💡 ideas: A repository just for ideas, since I'm having them faster than I can finish them...
• 📐 projects: Projects I'm planning to do in the next little bit. (Will obviously grow dramatically over time.)
• 🎤 podcasts: Podcasts I listen to and archive.
• 🎓 phd-ideas: Ideas I have for potential PhD theses.
• 🛡️ asoiaf-noble-house-images: Images derived from arms from noble houses of ASoIaF.
• 🥅 goals: All of the things I want to do.
• 🖨️ cheatsheets: A list of cheatsheets and reminders I've made for personal reference.
• ✅ todo: A repository to track all of the things I should be doing right now...
• ✍️ blog: My blog, written and maintained by Hugo.

The primordial soup. Side projects, early sketches, and speculative toys.

• 👋 ndouglas: ooh, a secret
• 🚜 terraform: Terraform IaC for random things associated with my account.
• 🎮 greenstone: A basic NES emulator written in Rust with an emphasis on debugging and game development.
• 🇫🇷 french.sh: Shell scripts for making French flashcards and stuff, because that is apparently what my life is ATM.
• ⛵ oldstones: A simple orchestrator, written in Go.
• 🧭 clork: An attempt to remake Zork in Clojure.
• 💦 ndh_humidifier: My little ESP8266-based humidifier.
• 🍋 dalt: 🍋 Dalt is a little webserver for monitoring and controlling devices in my workshop/grow room.

• 🇫🇷 Relearning French
• 🧱 Building LEGO with my kid
• 🖌️ Painting miniatures (and printing them faster than I can paint them)
• 🧘‍♂️ Lifting, cycling, rowing — brain only works when body does
• 👨‍🍳 Cooking (🥖 baking, 🧀 cheesemaking, 🍝 experimenting)
• 🎥 Letterboxd
• 🎼 RateYourMusic
• 🎮 Not playing anything in my Steam backlog
• 🎲 Not playing any of my board games either
• 🌵 Practicing succulent restraint
• 🧠 Currently top 3% on TryHackMe

( 🌀ndouglas | 🌉bitterbridge | ️‍🔥hellholt | 🦷goldentooth )