About this site
Hey, I'm Rommel
DevOps Consultant & Infrastructure Engineer
10+ years building and automating cloud infrastructure. Currently at Hexagon AB, working remotely across US, EU, and APAC timezones. I break things in production so you don't have to.
What is Eventually Consistent?
The name comes from distributed systems — where things don't have to be perfect right away, but they converge toward the right state over time. That's how I approach learning, building, and writing.
This blog documents my journey through DevOps, self-hosting, and infrastructure engineering — real problems, real solutions, no fluff.
What I Write About
Homelab Builds
Production-grade infrastructure running at home. Hardware, networking, and architecture decisions.
Kubernetes & Containers
Cluster management, security hardening, deployment patterns, and debugging war stories.
CI/CD & Automation
Pipeline design, GitOps workflows, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Ansible.
Self-Hosting
Taking control of your own services and data. Zero-trust networking, backups, and monitoring.
Cloud Architecture
AWS, multi-cloud strategies, cost optimization, and lessons from production incidents.
Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry — building visibility into complex systems.
The Homelab
Everything you see here — this blog included — runs on my homelab. No cloud bills, no vendor lock-in. It's the same stack I'd recommend for production, because it is production.
Let's Connect
I'm open to consulting, contract work, and full-time opportunities with global teams. Whether you want to talk infrastructure, need help with a migration, or just want to nerd out about homelabs — reach out.
rommel — devops consultant, homelab enthusiast, occasional yaml wrangler
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10+ years in production, still learning
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Converging toward competence, one outage at a time