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I'm Calvin Taylor

A Snr Platform Engineer, trying to be a little better than average.

Cloud Focused.: Typically working on AWS estates with large scale deployments.
Dirty wee Nomad.: Working remotely Since 2016
Plant Based.: Since 2017
Gym Rat.: Achy Joints Since 2020

Latest Posts

Feb 26, 20245 min read

Homelab

A Homebaked Raspberry PI Cluster

Running Kubernetes on bare-metal

img of My Transition from PHP to Platform Engineering

Feb 23, 202412 min read

Technology

My Transition from PHP to Platform Engineering

2 years into my current platform engineering role I reflect on the challenges I've faced along the way

Jan 8, 20248 min read

Personal

Moving to Bermuda

Our journey moving from the UK to Bermuda

Latest Videos

Foo Fighters - Everlong (Lead Guitar Cover)

A Tune

Ben Howard - Oats In The Water (Guitar Cover)

My wee Cover of Ben Howards, Oats in the Water! A little messy with timing at bits but oh well Tuning is DADAAD, very peculiar

Cover of "Blackbird" by The Beatles

Check out my cover of "Blackbird" by The Beatles! Recorded this using a Boss GT1 interface with my Ibanez RGD7521PB in standard tuning. This song has some tricky timings lol