Reader, foodie, musician, powerlifter, technophile
harrygodwin.com
Welcome to my website!
This website sprang from a need to find out 'how it's done' by doing it my way and in a language I enjoy (Python). From there I was testing how to automate a website that would scale using different cloud-native tools like ECS Fargate, Terraform, Docker, etc. After a while I got tired of giving AWS my money and put the HTML into S3 with CloudFront proxying the traffic...
About me
A Computer Science graduate from the University of Bath working as Head of Business Infrastructure for the world's leading AI company in cyber security. At work my current focuses are team cohesion and ensuring the systems we build and maintain are as robust as possible. I have the benefit of overseeing lots of different technologies and occasionally get hands-on with bits I enjoy.
An ex-rugby player turned powerlifter I'm a proponent of anything barbell-based. Some say I hit the gym regularly to justify eating lots of nice food, which is only partially true. I'm a keen home chef and also try to make my own coffee-shop espresso (having recently bought a neglected La Pavoni machine, if anyone is in-the-know!)
Outside of work tech I'm currently absorbed by the blockchain, crypto and NFT space, which has been evolving recently.
Projects
The next home projects are likely to be:
- A few more websites
- FreeIPA or equivalent
- OpenWRT / NetBSD
- Raspberry Pi camera security system
- Nagios / Zabbix / Prometheus / Grafana
- (more) Kubernetes
- StrongSwan IPSec
- PureOS / LineageOS
- OPNSense
- .onion node
- Self-hosted email
- Btrfs
- GitLab CI
- Duo / Okta SSO
- Some kind of NFT
Recent side-projects include:
- This site, which continues its iterations of different platforms without much documentation...
- Pi-Hole with kiosk display
- FreeNAS server & ZFS
- Plex jail
- NextCloud jail
- Automated NextCloud S3 backups & alerting
- .onion website
- Canonical's Landscape
- Tailscale / Wireguard
- Kubernetes Pi-Hole
- RetroPi
- AWS Organisations
Other sites:
ChalkBack was created out of the combined frustration of slippery commercial weight-benches and expensive alternatives. The company specialises in grip t-shirts primarily for bench-press and low-bar squats and aimed at the powerlifting community.
Coming soon..