Software Engineering and DevOps

I’m Randall, a software and dev ops engineer living near Dallas, TX. I’m no founder or CEO but I do find my job fascinating, and here you can watch me investigate ideas and concepts related to all things software.

Creating A Next.js Portfolio Website Project

This blog post is a detailed technical guide documenting the process of building and deploying a professional portfolio website using Next.js 14 and the Tailwind CSS Spotlight template. I walk through the complete development workflow, including project setup, containerization with Docker, infrastructure automation using Terraform, and deployment to Google Cloud Platform's Cloud Run service.

Semantic Kernel Running on Google Cloud

Semantic Kernel is a Large Language Model orchestration framework being actively developed by Microsoft. This project is a learning effort to better understand the internals of Semantic Kernel and investigate it's deployment into production environments.

Terraform Associate Exam

This is how I studied for and passed the Terraform Associate Exam.

Ingesting Real Estate Data To GCP BigQuery

This article is a walk through of a recent GCP side project that I decided to do. In this project I implement Google Cloud Functions to ingest a CSV file of real estate data into BigQuery.

Work

  1. Company
    Charles Schwab
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    Specialist - Software Engineering
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  2. Company
    FDM Group Inc.
    Role
    Software Developer
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  3. Company
    E-Tex Digital LLC
    Role
    IT Field Technician
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  4. Company
    Allaso Ranch Retreat Center
    Role
    Network Manager
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