👋 Hi I am Kyle Mueller
Hi, I'm Kyle M — a Staff Infrastructure Engineer based in Northern Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. I specialize in DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SRE (whatever it's called this week). I'm passionate about working with both hardware infrastructure and the code that orchestrates it all. Always learning, always building.
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🧰 My Workspace
My home office setup — currently on version 7 and counting.
MacBooks (Daily Drivers)
Windows Gaming Rig
Linux Dev Box
Homelab Cluster (3x)
🚧 Current Projects
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HashiCorp Ecosystem — Deep-diving into Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Consul, and other HashiCorp tools to build production-grade automation.
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Multi-Cloud Terraform — Experimenting with Azure infrastructure alongside AWS and DigitalOcean to expand cloud expertise.
📚 Learning Focus
Currently expanding skills in:
- Python — Automation and tooling
- Ansible — Configuration management
- Vault — Secrets management
- Security — Infrastructure hardening
- Networking — BGP, datacenter architecture
- Terraform — Infrastructure as Code
- Consul - Service Mesh
📓 Resources
Check out my 📓 Learning Notebook — a curated collection of tutorials, guides, and resources across DevOps, SRE, and infrastructure topics.
🌎 Travel & Conferences
Active in the DevOps and SRE community, attending conferences and meetups focused on infrastructure automation, monitoring, and reliability engineering.
Current Events
- No current plans
On My Radar
- LISA — Systems administration
- OpenCompute — Open hardware
- NANOG — Network operations
- OracleAI - Oracle Cloud & AI
Retired Events
- Velocity Conf — Performance and reliability
- DevOps DC — Local meetup group
Where to Find Me
I regularly travel to:
- Mid-Atlantic — Baltimore, DC, Philly, NYC (I-95 Corridor)
- Florida — Orlando, Sarasota
- Texas Triangle — Houston, Austin, San Antonio
- Mountain West — Denver, CO
📦 Check out my 💼 Travel Kit — a minimalist tech travel setup for professionals on the go.