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Infrastructure that actually works. On FreeBSD, Linux, or wherever the job takes it.
I'm Blake Ridgway — a Site Reliability Engineer based in Enid, Oklahoma with experience across cloud infrastructure, on-prem networks, security hardening, and automation. I've built policy-as-code firewall frameworks, managed Kubernetes workloads at a fintech startup, designed WAN monitoring systems, and I'm currently running SRE on Azure at a cloud-native shop.
This site runs on a self-hosted FreeBSD server in my homelab. That's not a gimmick — it's how I approach every system I touch.
pf, iptables, VLANs, VPNs, BGP/OSPF, network segmentation, zero trust architecture.
System hardening, service configuration, performance tuning, and ongoing administration.
Terraform, Ansible, Azure DevOps, AWS, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps with Argo CD.
Policy-as-code firewalls, IDS/IPS, geo-blocking, security posture audits and hardening.
Bare-metal provisioning, PXE boot, homelab and small business server deployments.
Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios), incident response, runbooks, and day-to-day ops.
Occasional posts on FreeBSD, homelab builds, and infrastructure work. No spam.
Tell me about your project or problem. I'll respond within one business day.
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