refactor: restructure data layer and improve imports organization

Author: danielbodnar

.eleventy.js

@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 // START 11TY imports
-import eleventyNavigationPlugin             from "@11ty/eleventy-navigation";
-import { InputPathToUrlTransformPlugin }    from "@11ty/eleventy";
-import { eleventyImageTransformPlugin }     from "@11ty/eleventy-img";
-import { EleventyHtmlBasePlugin }           from "@11ty/eleventy";
-import pluginRss                            from "@11ty/eleventy-plugin-rss";
+import { EleventyHtmlBasePlugin, InputPathToUrlTransformPlugin } from "@11ty/eleventy";
+import { eleventyImageTransformPlugin } from "@11ty/eleventy-img";
+import eleventyNavigationPlugin from "@11ty/eleventy-navigation";
+import pluginRss from "@11ty/eleventy-plugin-rss";
 // END 11TY imports
 
 // START LibDoc imports
-import libdocConfig                         from "./_data/libdocConfig.js";
-import libdocFunctions                      from "./_data/libdocFunctions.js";
+import libdocConfig from "./_data/libdocConfig.js";
+import libdocFunctions from "./_data/libdocFunctions.js";
 // END LibDoc imports
 
 export default function(eleventyConfig) {
@@ -34,6 +33,7 @@ export default function(eleventyConfig) {
     // START COLLECTIONS
     eleventyConfig.addCollection("myTags", libdocFunctions.collections.myTags);
     eleventyConfig.addCollection("postsByDateDescending", libdocFunctions.collections.postsByDateDescending);
+    eleventyConfig.addCollection("pages", libdocFunctions.collections.pages);
     // END COLLECTIONS
 
     // START SHORTCODES

_data/bookmarks.js

@@ -1,157 +1,115 @@
-export default {
-  positions: [
-    {
-      id: "fidelity-investments",
-      company: "Fidelity Investments",
-      title: "Principal Software, DevOps, and Cloud Engineer",
-      period: "2023 - 2025",
-      location: "Remote",
-      type: "Full-time",
-      description: "Served as a technical leader and cloud architect, designing and implementing enterprise-scale cloud solutions while mentoring teams on AWS best practices and modern DevOps methodologies.",
-      achievements: [
-        "Architected comprehensive AWS solutions for enterprise applications, including designing secure networking topologies and multi-account strategies",
-        "Developed and implemented robust IAM policies and CloudFormation templates adhering to strict financial industry security standards",
-        "Designed and built a full AWS CDK platform enabling teams to rapidly deploy standardized, compliant infrastructure",
-        "Engineered Kubernetes-based deployment solutions leveraging EKS, Helm charts, and custom operators for application management",
-        "Rebuilt and optimized the Jenkins Core platform, increasing build efficiency and reducing pipeline execution times",
-        "Created a cloud orchestration CLI tool that simplified cross-account resource management and deployment workflows",
-        "Successfully deployed and managed Discourse forums on Alpine Linux containers in Kubernetes, ensuring high availability and performance",
-        "Implemented infrastructure-as-code practices across multiple teams, significantly reducing configuration drift and deployment errors",
-        "Designed and implemented automated security scanning and compliance checking within CI/CD pipelines",
-        "Led knowledge-sharing sessions and developed documentation to elevate team capabilities in cloud-native technologies"
-      ],
-      technologies: ["AWS", "AWS CDK", "CloudFormation", "Kubernetes", "EKS", "Helm", "Jenkins", "Docker", "IAM", "Terraform", "Python", "Node.js", "Discourse", "Alpine Linux"]
-    },
-    {
-      id: "bitbuilder-cloud",
-      company: "BitBuilder Cloud, LLC",
-      title: "Founder, Cloud Architect, CIO",
-      period: "2021 - Present",
-      location: "Remote",
-      type: "Self-employed",
-      description: "Launched a Cloud Hosting and Consulting private SaaS company with a focus on providing a vendor-agnostic, e2e encrypted, highly-available, and globally distributed hyper-converged platform for cost-efficient resiliency against hostile attackers.",
-      infrastructure: {
-        primary: "HPE DL385 Gen10 with dual AMD Epyc 7601, 512GB RAM, 30TB NVMe",
-        development: "HPE DL380 Gen8 for testing and experimentation",
-        totalResources: "2TB+ RAM, 320 cores, 64TB NVMe storage"
-      },
-      achievements: [
-        "Single-handedly built core services on co-located custom bare metal servers with over 2TB RAM, 320 cores, 64TB NVMe storage",
-        "Containerized and load-balanced several high-profile organizations with 1M+ global visitors/day",
-        "Orchestrated global scaling via multi-cloud hybrid overlay layer based on custom k8s distribution and immutable Linux systems",
-        "Implemented constant monitoring and observability using Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, NetData, and Jaeger"
-      ],
-      technologies: ["Kubernetes", "Docker", "Linux", "Bare Metal", "ZFS", "NVMe", "Grafana", "Prometheus", "VictoriaMetrics", "NetData", "Jaeger", "Multi-cloud", "Hybrid Infrastructure"]
-    },
-    {
-      id: "rsvp-act",
-      company: "RSVP & ACT, Inc",
-      title: "SRE, SysAdmin, and Platforms Engineer",
-      period: "April 2019 - 2021",
-      location: "Remote",
-      type: "Full-time",
-      roles: [
-        {
-          title: "Site Reliability Engineer, Level II",
-          description: "Directly responsible for identifying capacity and efficiency constraints, as well as engineering secure, highly-available, horizontally scalable platforms to run production environment apps, services, databases, and infrastructure.",
-          achievements: [
-            "Worked closely with dev teams and other departments to assess needs, constraints, and manual toil, then crafted automated and efficient solutions",
-            "Architected, deployed, and managed dynamically scaling, secure, and fully version-controlled bare-metal Kubernetes clusters",
-            "Responsible for all migrations from legacy systems to Kubernetes",
-            "Deployed and managed self-hosted GitLab instance with DevOps build pipelines and automatic blue-green deployments",
-            "Implemented monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and observability tools",
-            "Implemented and enforced GitLab-based Infrastructure-as-Code procedures and pipelines",
-            "Managed and performance-tuned +3.5TB PostgreSQL database cluster",
-            "Deployed and managed multiple host, network, and container security tools and vulnerability scanners"
-          ]
-        },
-        {
-          title: "SysAdmin",
-          description: "Directly responsible for and fully owned the management, maintenance, and support of all internal and external IT infrastructure.",
-          achievements: [
-            "Simplified and standardized various independent hypervisors with a centralized Proxmox cluster on ZFS and a 56G InfiniBand FC SAN",
-            "Deployed W2019 AD server environment to centralize user accounts and management of 50+ workstations",
-            "Mitigated two ransomware hacks within the first month of employment",
-            "Implemented organization-wide VPN (using Wireguard), VLANs, and security measures",
-            "Engineered isolated, zero-trust access for 3rd-party external developers",
-            "Implemented customized Windows PE & Linux based iPXE/network boot servers"
-          ]
-        }
-      ],
-      technologies: ["Kubernetes", "PostgreSQL", "MySQL", "SQLite", "GitLab", "Docker", "Proxmox", "ZFS", "InfiniBand", "Ansible", "Terraform", "Wireguard", "VPN", "VLAN"]
-    },
-    {
-      id: "perspectives",
-      company: "Perspectives.org",
-      title: "IT Director",
-      period: "January 2018 - April 2019",
-      location: "Remote",
-      type: "Full-time",
-      description: "Perspectives is an international NGO which provides a college level educational course with an average 250+ classes with 10k students per year.",
-      achievements: [
-        "Led IT team and India-based dev team while developing 5 year vision roadmap to rebuild legacy .NET 3.5 application into 18 modern portals",
-        "Increased cloud hosting capacity by 10x while reducing budget by 50%",
-        "Reduced minimum page load time from 5 seconds to 0.8 seconds",
-        "Built DRM-secured offline-enabled streaming video player desktop app in Go"
-      ],
-      volunteerWork: {
-        period: "2012-2014",
-        achievements: [
-          "Redesigned and developed modern replacement for perspectives.org home page",
-          "Created online Learning Management System that reduced overhead by over 90%",
-          "Architected automatic, horizontally scaling container orchestration platform"
-        ]
-      },
-      technologies: ["Go", "Docker", "Rancher", "AWS", "Cloud Orchestration", "iPXE", "Container Orchestration", ".NET", "Performance Optimization", "DRM", "Video Streaming", "LMS"]
-    },
-    {
-      id: "att",
-      company: "AT&T Corp.",
-      title: "Professional Application Developer",
-      period: "March 2014 - June 2017",
-      location: "Dallas, TX",
-      type: "Full-time",
-      description: "Full stack application engineer building custom web-based tools and services for various internal departments.",
-      achievements: [
-        "Solely responsible for managing entire project pipeline before implementing Scrum",
-        "Led team-wide migration from Rails/MySQL stack to Node.js, Angular.js, and MongoDB",
-        "Engineered Docker-based DevOps and deployment pipeline",
-        "Built large-scale Order Status application with decoupled microservice pipeline",
-        "Mastered functional programming in JavaScript for high-performance pipelines"
-      ],
-      technologies: ["Node.js", "Angular.js", "MongoDB", "Docker", "Rails", "MySQL", "JavaScript", "Functional Programming", "Microservices", "DevOps", "CI/CD", "REST APIs"]
-    }
-  ],
-  priorExperience: [
-    {
-      id: "tacc-support",
-      company: "TACC Support",
-      period: "2007-2013",
-      description: "Owned computer repair / IT consulting / MSP company for 5+ years, with as many as 5 employees at a time.",
-      fullName: "Technicians Against Computer Cruelty"
-    },
-    {
-      id: "ticketdashboard",
-      company: "TicketDashboard",
-      period: "2013-2014",
-      description: "Launched business around redesigned ticket manager as multi-tenant SaaS solution.",
-      technologies: ["MongoDB", "Node.js", "Python", "Angular", "Bootstrap"]
-    },
-    {
-      id: "diab",
-      company: "DIAB, INC",
-      description: "Virtualized entire US-based operations multi-site server infrastructure (~30 bare-metal servers) on ESXi."
-    },
-    {
-      id: "ipeople",
-      company: "iPeople.com",
-      description: "Provided technical support to help customers leverage proprietary ODBC drivers to access archaic hospital database systems (Meditech)."
-    }
+// Current positions
+const fidelity = {
+  id: "fidelity",
+  company: "Fidelity Investments",
+  title: "Principal Software, DevOps, and Cloud Engineer",
+  period: "2023 - 2025",
+  location: "Remote",
+  type: "Full-time",
+  technologies: [
+    "AWS",
+    "AWS CDK",
+    "CloudFormation",
+    "Kubernetes",
+    "EKS",
+    "Helm",
+    "Jenkins",
+    "Docker",
+    "IAM",
+    "Terraform",
+    "Python",
+    "Node.js",
+    "Discourse",
+    "Alpine Linux",
   ],
-  earlyCareer: [
-    "Built first website at 11, on a legal pad, four years after the birth of the Internet",
-    "At 17 was writing HL7 (medical data exchange) protocols in MS DOS-based FoxPro 2.1",
-    "At 19 accepted position as Windows Network Administration/SysAdmin",
-    "Launched and ran TACC Support for five years, managing up to five employees"
-  ]
+};
+
+const bitbuilder = {
+  id: "bitbuilder",
+  company: "BitBuilder Cloud, LLC",
+  title: "Founder, Cloud Architect, CIO",
+  period: "2021 - Present",
+  location: "Remote",
+  type: "Self-employed",
+  hardware: {
+    primary: "HPE DL385 Gen10 with dual AMD Epyc 7601, 512GB RAM, 30TB NVMe",
+    development: "HPE DL380 Gen8",
+    totalResources: "2TB+ RAM, 320 cores, 64TB NVMe storage",
+  },
+  technologies: ["Kubernetes", "Docker", "Linux", "Bare Metal", "ZFS", "NVMe", "Grafana", "Prometheus", "VictoriaMetrics", "NetData", "Jaeger"],
+};
+
+const rsvp = {
+  id: "rsvp",
+  company: "RSVP & ACT, Inc",
+  title: "SRE, SysAdmin, and Platforms Engineer",
+  period: "April 2019 - 2021",
+  location: "Remote",
+  type: "Full-time",
+  technologies: ["Kubernetes", "PostgreSQL", "MySQL", "SQLite", "GitLab", "Docker", "Proxmox", "ZFS", "InfiniBand", "Ansible", "Terraform", "Wireguard"],
+};
+
+const perspectives = {
+  id: "perspectives",
+  company: "Perspectives.org",
+  title: "IT Director",
+  period: "January 2018 - April 2019",
+  location: "Remote",
+  type: "Full-time",
+  volunteerPeriod: "2012-2014",
+  technologies: ["Go", "Docker", "Rancher", "AWS", "iPXE", ".NET", "LMS"],
+};
+
+const att = {
+  id: "att",
+  company: "AT&T Corp.",
+  title: "Professional Application Developer",
+  period: "March 2014 - June 2017",
+  location: "Dallas, TX",
+  type: "Full-time",
+  technologies: ["Node.js", "Angular.js", "MongoDB", "Docker", "Rails", "MySQL", "JavaScript"],
+};
+
+// Prior experience (< 8 years ago)
+const priorExperience = [
+  {
+    id: "tacc",
+    company: "TACC Support",
+    fullName: "Technicians Against Computer Cruelty",
+    period: "2007-2013",
+    description: "Computer repair / IT consulting / MSP company with up to 5 employees",
+  },
+  {
+    id: "ticketdashboard",
+    company: "TicketDashboard",
+    period: "2013-2014",
+    description: "Multi-tenant SaaS ticket management solution",
+    technologies: ["MongoDB", "Node.js", "Python", "Angular", "Bootstrap"],
+  },
+  {
+    id: "diab",
+    company: "DIAB, INC",
+    description: "Virtualized ~30 bare-metal servers on ESXi",
+  },
+  {
+    id: "ipeople",
+    company: "iPeople.com",
+    description: "Technical support for hospital database systems (Meditech)",
+  },
+];
+
+const currentPositions = [fidelity, bitbuilder];
+const pastPositions = [rsvp, perspectives, att];
+const allPositions = [...currentPositions, ...pastPositions];
+
+export default {
+  fidelity,
+  bitbuilder,
+  rsvp,
+  perspectives,
+  att,
+  priorExperience,
+  currentPositions,
+  pastPositions,
+  allPositions,
 };

_data/collections/pages.js

@@ -209,6 +209,15 @@ export default {
                 //return a.inputPath.localeCompare(b.inputPath); // sort by path - ascending
                 //return b.inputPath.localeCompare(a.inputPath); // sort by path - descending
             });
+        },
+        pages: function(collectionsApi) {
+            return collectionsApi.getAll()
+                .filter((item) => item.data.eleventyNavigation !== undefined)
+                .sort((a, b) => {
+                    const orderA = a.data.eleventyNavigation.order || 0;
+                    const orderB = b.data.eleventyNavigation.order || 0;
+                    return orderA - orderB;
+                });
         }
     },
     shortcodes: {