General arrangement

Sheet 01 · Isometric

View 1Isometric · hidden lines dashed

Senior site reliability engineer

Ricardo Herrera

I build infrastructure that stays up and stays boring: Kubernetes platforms, observability, and the automation that lets other engineers ship on their own. This drawing set takes the whole operation apart, one sheet at a time.

Drawing register

No.	Sheet	Contents
01	General arrangement	Index
02	Three-view	About
03	Exploded assembly	Work
04	Display, detail A	Writing
05	Tape drive, detail B	Archive
06	Keyboard, plan	Contact

No.

Sheet

Contents

01

General arrangement

Index

02

Three-view

About

03

Exploded assembly

Work

04

Display, detail A

Writing

05

Tape drive, detail B

Three-view · overall dimensions

Sheet 02 · About

View AFront elevation

View BRight elevation

Ricardo leaning on a stone balustrade above a misty Paris skyline

Fig. 2-C
Operator,
off duty

General notes

Site reliability engineer with 10+ years in infrastructure, from a colo rack of ESXi hosts to multi-cluster Kubernetes on AWS.
Now: senior SRE at Radar since January 2026, and co-founder of Glamer. Happiest building self-service platforms and making on-call quiet.
Everything in Git. Self-service over tickets, SLOs over gut feel, runbooks that run themselves. Mostly Go, Terraform and FluxCD.
Off duty: street photography on a Fujifilm X100F, mostly at night. See fig. 2-C, or look through the loupe at the contact sheet beside the keyboard.
All dimensions in millimetres. Do not scale from drawing.

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Exploded assembly

Sheet 03 · Work

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Parts list · selected work

Item	Part	Project
1	Enclosure	Kubernetes platform Multi-tenant platform at Watchtower: 10 clusters, 140 nodes, self-service, 99.99% available.
2	Logic board	Skipper Open-source Go ingress controller. Added dynamic TLS secret handling.
3	Display	Observability stack Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Thanos, federated across clusters with five years of history.
4	Tape drive	Database platforms Redis, PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch on operators, with failover and backups built in.
5	Chassis	AWS migration G&G Outfitters off Expedient onto EKS: 60%+ cheaper, 5x the traffic, zero-downtime cutover.
6	Keyboard	Glamer Peer-to-peer marketplace I co-founded. Next.js and Go, from zero to launch.

Item

Part

Project

1

Enclosure

Kubernetes platform
Multi-tenant platform at Watchtower: 10 clusters, 140 nodes, self-service, 99.99% available.

2

Logic board

Skipper
Open-source Go ingress controller. Added dynamic TLS secret handling.

3

Display

Observability stack
Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Thanos, federated across clusters with five years of history.

4

Tape drive

Database platforms
Redis, PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch on operators, with failover and backups built in.

5

Chassis

AWS migration
G&G Outfitters off Expedient onto EKS: 60%+ cheaper, 5x the traffic, zero-downtime cutover.

6

Keyboard

Glamer
Peer-to-peer marketplace I co-founded. Next.js and Go, from zero to launch.

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Display assembly · detail A

Sheet 04 · Writing

Detail ADisplay, screen and tube

Revision log · writing

Rev	Date	Description
–	–	See all writing

Rev

Date

Description

–

See all writing

Newest revision first. Each entry is a post on engineering or anything else worth writing down.

Read all writing →

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Tape drive · detail B

Sheet 05 · Archive

Detail BTape drive, isometric

Tape contents · things I use

Software I use, gadgets I love, and other things that make me happy.

Track	Side	Item
A1	Workstation	13″ MacBook Air, M4, 24 GB (2025) Light, portable, extra RAM and the best chip on the market. Who cares if it's not a Pro.
A2	Workstation	Neo80 keyboard I use it all day, every day, so it might as well be a nice one. Bronze plate, heavy as a brick: it doubles as a weapon.
B1	Dev tools	Neovim Since Claude Code became my AI tool of choice, I live in the terminal more than ever.
B2	Dev tools	Ghostty Fast, GPU-accelerated and native. Pairs nicely with Neovim and gets out of my way.
C1	Productivity	Obsidian Notes that don't care about folders. One day, after enough backlinks, I'll behold my graph view and die in peace.
C2	Productivity	Claude Code More and more of my work goes through it, and MCP servers only sped that up. Brave new world.

Track

Side

Item

A1

Workstation

13″ MacBook Air, M4, 24 GB (2025)
Light, portable, extra RAM and the best chip on the market. Who cares if it's not a Pro.

A2

Workstation

Neo80 keyboard
I use it all day, every day, so it might as well be a nice one. Bronze plate, heavy as a brick: it doubles as a weapon.

B1

Dev tools

Neovim
Since Claude Code became my AI tool of choice, I live in the terminal more than ever.

B2

Dev tools

Ghostty
Fast, GPU-accelerated and native. Pairs nicely with Neovim and gets out of my way.

C1

Productivity

Obsidian
Notes that don't care about folders. One day, after enough backlinks, I'll behold my graph view and die in peace.

C2

Productivity

Claude Code
More and more of my work goes through it, and MCP servers only sped that up. Brave new world.

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TitleTape drive, detail B

DrawnR. Herrera

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RevA

Keyboard · plan view

Sheet 06 · Contact

View 1Keyboard, plan

Input connections

Port	Connect
J1	ricardo@ricardoherrera.co
J2	LinkedIn
J3	X
J4	GitHub
J5	Resume (PDF)

Port

Connect

J1

ricardo@ricardoherrera.co

J2

J3

X

J4

GitHub

J5

Resume (PDF)

Write about platform and reliability work, infrastructure for early-stage teams, or a good postmortem story.

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TitleKeyboard, plan

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