scubbo / archonprison

An implementation of the Archon Prison, as described in The Quantum Thief. Uses the Prisoner's Dilemma to generate Game Of Life-ish board states

Pronouns: He/Him

This account is mostly unused - the majority of my repositories are in my self-hosted Gitea instance.

Professional History

After graduating with a degree in Mathematics and spending a year with a small web development company, I worked for 10 years with Amazon - 4 with Amazon Video in London, and 6 with Amazon Music in San Francisco, ending up as the Tech Lead for the Music Metrics and Data Platform organization. Upon recognizing the inevitable incipient burnout, I took 6 months off of work to recuperate. Since I'd been interested in resiliency and quality development practices while at Amazon (in my spare time I wrote the first version of what eventually became Amazon's Load Test coordination tool, and I led the Incident Analysis group in Music alongside my day job), I've moved into an SRE role at LegalZoom as of January 2023.

Personal Work

I run a homelab as a testbed for tinkering and learning, mostly with k8s-/GitOps-related tools. Currently I'm trying to figure out how to Crossplane-ify All The Things.

I blog about technology and other things here. The majority of my own code lives on my personal Gitea instance rather than on GitHub itself - this account is just for collaborating with others.

References

A small collection of articles that I found formative and helpful:

• Manual Work Is A Bug
• The Many More Much Smaller Steps series by Geepaw Hill, and Structual And Behavioural Changes by Kent Beck

Contact and Socials

Mastodon is my main Social Media app nowadays. I'm reachable via email at [email protected].