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title: "Waylon Walker"
description: "Husband, dad of two, and hobbyist builder of things on the internet."
date: 2021-11-20
published: true
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  - meta
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## Hi, Hello, I'm Waylon

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 <a href="/tags/gaming/" class="wikilink" data-title="Posts tagged: gaming" data-description="All posts with the tag &#34;gaming&#34;">gaming</a> 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.

## What I Do

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.

## Why I Built This Site

_from scratch_

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 **pluggy** and **diskcache**.
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.

## Infrastructure

Because apparently I don't have enough hobbies, I also run this site from a
**<a href="/tags/kubernetes/" class="wikilink" data-title="Posts tagged: kubernetes" data-description="All posts with the tag &#34;kubernetes&#34;">Kubernetes</a> cluster in my basement**. Nothing says "I
love DevOps" like maintaining your own bare-metal cluster just to host a static
blog.

## Explore

Curious about the tech? Check out <a href="/about-this-site/" class="wikilink" data-title="about this site" data-description="I registered waylonwalker.com and started making content for it in 2017 after a big industry downturn in 2016 that left me scared for what would happen if I..." data-date="2024-05-31">about this site</a> for my philosophy on
this space, or <a href="/colophon/" class="wikilink" data-title="/colophon" data-description="Colophon a page that describes how the site &gt; is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies" data-date="2025-01-02">/colophon</a> for the full stack breakdown.

## Meta Pages

Evergreen pages about me and this site: