ai-study-buddy
Stateful AWS-certification competency tracker — scans GitHub activity for evidence, does gap analysis, generates Terraform practice projects, deploys to a local Kubernetes cluster via Helm.
Charles Harvey · @linuxlsr
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer · Site Reliability Engineer · AI Automation
Senior cloud platform and site reliability engineer with 20+ years in AWS and Azure infrastructure, security, and automation. Datadog subject-matter expert building AI-driven automation for cloud security and observability in a regulated (HIPAA/PCI) environment. Outside the day job I run Three Moons Network, an independent practice that brings production-grade AI automation to small and medium businesses.
Now
- Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at a Fortune-100 health-technology company — Datadog SME, cloud security posture, AI-tooling governance.
- Founder, Three Moons Network — production-grade AI automation for small and medium businesses.
- Writing at floggingclaude.com — applying AI tools as a working engineer: wins, dead ends, production realities.
Selected projects
backstage-platform
AI-driven platform-intelligence portal spike on Backstage — Bedrock chat agent, Datadog LLM Observability + OpenTelemetry instrumentation, Helm/k8s deploy assets and runbooks. Companion repos backstage-portal and backstage-agent.
tmn-incident-digest-agent
Incident digest agent — Datadog incidents and metrics summarized by an LLM and delivered as an SES email digest.
What I work with
- Cloud & Platform
- AWS (Lambda · Step Functions · Bedrock · EKS · ECR · Inspector) · Azure · Kubernetes
- SRE & Observability
- Datadog (SME) · SLOs · DORA metrics · on-call & incident response (GoAlert · PagerDuty) · root-cause analysis
- IaC, CI/CD & Security
- Terraform · GitHub Actions · Docker · ArgoCD · CIS hardening · AWS Inspector · CSPM · PCI/HIPAA
- AI & Languages
- Amazon Bedrock · LLM tooling · Claude Code / MCP governance · Python · Bash · PowerShell