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richardmussell/README.md

Systems Engineer | Kubernetes Orchestrator

Engineering the bridge between high-performance hardware and cloud-native orchestration.

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Specializing in Sovereign Infrastructure and Deterministic Edge Compute. building memory-safe systems in Rust, orchestrate distributed workloads via Kubernetes, and explore the future of sandboxed execution with WebAssembly (Wasm).


🪅 The Mastery Stack

Category Technologies
Safe Systems Rust (Tokio, Cargo), WebAssembly (Wasm/WASI), Go, Python, Bash
Orchestration Kubernetes (Control Plane, K3s, Helm), Docker, Containerd
Infrastructure Terraform, GitHub Actions (CI/CD), Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu), eBPF (Aya)
Networking WireGuard, TCP/IP, DNS, Prometheus/Grafana, L3/L4 Protocol Engineering

🫎 Key Projects (Systems Engineering Focus)

A high-performance execution environment built in Rust for running sandboxed WebAssembly modules. Focused on sub-millisecond cold starts and WASI compliance for edge environments.

A custom Kubernetes Controller (Operator) written in Rust using kube-rs. Automates the reconciliation of specialized infrastructure nodes and demonstrates deep-dive knowledge of the K8s API Server.

A Linux observability agent using eBPF (via the Aya library in Rust) to monitor kernel-level syscalls. Streams real-time performance telemetry to a Prometheus time-series database.

Automated bare-metal provisioning using Terraform and GitHub Actions. Enables "Zero-Touch" infrastructure deployments from BIOS configuration to a fully initialized K3s cluster.


🌊 Sovereign & Maritime Research

Centered on cloud-native engineering, gravitating toward the unique challenges of specialized, sovereign environments:

  • OTEC Compute Hulls: Designing "thermal-aware" Kubernetes scheduling synchronized with the energy cycles of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC).
  • Maritime TSN: Leveraging Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) to eliminate jitter in submersible AI control loops.
  • Deterministic AI Edge: Deploying ultra-low-power Wasm-Native AI modules for remote maritime sensor arrays.

🔱 Roadmap to Mastery

Status Milestone Target
🏁 B.S. Information Technology Systems & Cybersecurity Focus (CWU 2024)
CKA (Kubernetes) Associate Infrastructure Orchestration
🦀 Rust Systems Project Building Memory-Safe Distributed Tooling
🕸 CKS (Security) Hardening Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure

"Moving beyond best-effort cloud—architecting deterministic, sovereign, and resilient systems."

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