Me at the Fuji Shibazakura Festival in Fujikawaguchiko, Japan 2023
Me at the Fuji Shibazakura Festival in Fujikawaguchiko, Japan 2023

Hi there! I’m Sebastiaan – the protagonist of this website. Thanks for dropping on by 👋

I’m from Melbourne, Australia, and living up to the stereotype I have opinions on the local cafes. In my free time I enjoy DIY projects, repairing old devices, and reading.

I originally intended this blog to be a place where I write blog posts about DevOps, technology, and other various topics that have caught my interest. While starting out with this blog I found it useful to have a place where I could keep notes I could readily access, that’s why the majority of the posts are recipes.

The site has been a great learning experience for both web development and writing. But as you can see there’s still quite a lot to do!

Related to that: my occupation. I’ve been a DevOps Engineer for the past 6 years. I’ve primarily worked with tools such as AWS, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins. A lot of that work has focused on streamlining the way how we provision infrastructure for the cloud. At the moment I work for Secure Code Warrior a gamified cyber-security education company based in Sydney, Australia.

If you’re curious here are some things which help me do what I do.

Contact Information

If would like to get in contact, the best way is probably via email at t@svw.au.

If PGP means anything to you, you can import my key via gpg --locate-keys t@svw.au (see how that’s done here).

Here is a direct link to my public key.

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