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.
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 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.
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.