Waylon Walker
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Husband, dad of two, and hobbyist builder of things on the internet.

Date: November 20, 2021

[1m[38;2;167;192;128mHi, Hello, I’m Waylon[0m
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Husband, dad of two, and hobbyist builder of things on the internet.

When I’m not wrangling data pipeline platforms or building web platforms, you’ll find me [4m[38;2;127;187;179mgaming[0m <[38;2;122;132;120m/tags/gaming/[0m> with my kids, making art, or skating around the neighborhood. Reliving my mechanical engineering days with my 3d printer. Winding down at the end of the day binge-watching Big Bang Theory with my wife.

[1m[38;2;167;192;128mWhat I Do[0m
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I’m a Senior Software Engineer who specializes in data pipelines and Python-based web platforms. I help teams turn messy data into reliable systems that actually work.

[1m[38;2;167;192;128mWhy I Built This Site[0m
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[3mfrom scratch[0m

I got tired of:

- Build times that took forever
- Node modules folders that became black holes
- Bloated pages that took ages to load
- SEO tools that felt like an afterthought

So I built my own platform from scratch using [1mpluggy[0m and [1mdiskcache[0m. It’s under-funded, over-dreamed, barely documented, and I love it. This site is my sandbox for learning, teaching, and sharing ideas on my own terms.

[1m[38;2;167;192;128mInfrastructure[0m
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Because apparently I don’t have enough hobbies, I also run this site from a [1m[4m[38;2;127;187;179mKubernetes[0m <[38;2;122;132;120m/tags/kubernetes/[0m> cluster in my basement[0m. Nothing says “I love DevOps” like maintaining your own bare-metal cluster just to host a static blog.

[1m[38;2;167;192;128mExplore[0m
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Curious about the tech? Check out [4m[38;2;127;187;179mabout this site[0m <[38;2;122;132;120m/about-this-site/[0m> for my philosophy on this space, or [4m[38;2;127;187;179m/colophon[0m for the full stack breakdown.

[1m[38;2;167;192;128mMeta Pages[0m
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Evergreen pages about me and this site: