Personal Lab & Engineering Practice
Frank Welder
Technologist — Engineer — Builder

I design and build infrastructure, automation, and intelligent systems — from bare-metal Kubernetes clusters and secrets management pipelines to AI/ML tooling and developer platforms. I care deeply about operational correctness, clean architecture, and the discipline of building things that work reliably over time.


Dragon.IO

Dragon.IO is my personal engineering lab — a fully self-hosted infrastructure environment running on a 5-node MicroK8s cluster. It serves as both a production-grade practice environment and a platform for exploring what well-engineered infrastructure looks like at small scale: GitOps delivery, secrets management via HashiCorp Vault, zero-trust remote access, DNS management, and automated workload deployment.

Everything in the lab is built to production standards — documented, version-controlled, and designed to be recoverable. The goal is not just to run services, but to understand and own every layer of the stack.

MicroK8s HashiCorp Vault External Secrets Operator MetalLB Cloudflare Zero Trust OpenWrt NFS Storage GitOps Pi-hole AI / ML
Team Portal Internal operations dashboard — cluster status, services, infrastructure reference, and runbooks. Google login required.
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