CTO @ Fireball Industries 🔥 — Still here. Still kicking it at fireballz.ai. Yes, the domain ends in .ai because 2026 and venture capital, baby.
"I turn YAML files into production infrastructure and existential dread into Prometheus alerts."
I'm the person who makes the industrial IoT stack work when everyone else has gone home. You know that feeling when your factory floor crashes at 3 AM? Yeah, I fixed that. With Kubernetes. And spite.
- 🏭 Industrial IoT Whisperer: CODESYS, Node-RED, and enough MQTT to make you question your life choices
- ☁️ Cloud Native Chaos Engineer: Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and the kind of YAML that makes grown DevOps engineers weep
- 📊 Observability Overlord: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB — if it can graph your failures, I've deployed it
- 🔐 Security Theater Director: Building defenses so your PLC doesn't become a Bitcoin miner
- 🤖 AI Stuff: Because apparently my job title requires it now
- Wrangling CODESYS PLCs, Ignition Edge, and Home Assistant into a cohesive stack
- Making legacy industrial equipment speak modern protocols (they're not happy about it)
- Kubernetes on AMD64, ARM64, and x86 because apparently, one architecture is for quitters
- Prometheus + Grafana + Loki + Alert Manager = sleeping through the night (maybe)
- Telegraf collecting metrics from places metrics shouldn't exist
- PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB for when you need to query the past and the future
- Building Helm charts for everything from Mosquitto to Node-RED
- CI/CD pipelines that deploy faster than I can regret my architectural decisions
- Alert rules that ping me at 2 AM because a sensor sneezed
- Fireballz.ai does AI things (the details are above my pay grade, but I deploy them)
- Machine learning models that are definitely learning something
- ✅ Made CODESYS containers work on ARM64 (the documentation said it couldn't be done—they were wrong)
- ✅ Deployed a full observability stack that actually caught issues before users did
- ✅ Survived migrating production infrastructure at 2 AM on a Tuesday
- ✅ Wrote enough YAML to deforest a small nation (digitally)
- ✅ Got Prometheus alerts tuned so well I almost forgot what PagerDuty sounds like
- ✅ Still employed despite deploying to prod on Fridays (sometimes)
LinkedIn Patrick: "Passionate about leveraging synergistic cloud-native solutions to drive digital transformation..."
GitHub Patrick: Commits at 3 AM titled "fix the thing" and "IT WORKS DO NOT TOUCH"
- Kubernetes: Can debug a failing pod with my eyes closed (have done it at 4 AM)
- Helm: Write charts in my sleep (literally had dreams about templating)
- YAML: Stockholm syndrome is real
- Debugging: Professional panic-googler, Stack Overflow VIP
- Documentation: Write detailed docs that future-me will definitely ignore
- Coffee: Senior level proficiency, approaching architect tier
Mostly Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, and the kind of infrastructure code that makes you say "it works, don't ask why."
- 🏭 Industrial IoT monitoring and control systems
- 📊 Full observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, the whole gang)
- 🐳 Docker containers for things that probably shouldn't be containerized
- 📈 TimescaleDB and InfluxDB deployments for time-series data hoarding
- 🔌 MQTT, Node-RED, and other IoT sorcery
- 🎯 Alert Manager configs that are definitely not tuned too aggressively
- Debugging in production isn't a bug, it's a feature
- My commit history is a timeline of optimism followed by reality
- I've been "just trying one more thing" since 2019
- My Kubernetes cluster has more uptime than my sleep schedule
- Grafana dashboards are my love language
"It works on my machine" — me, before Kubernetes made this everyone's problem
"I'm not saying it's AI, but the marketing team insists" — also me
"Just one more alert rule" — famous last words
- 📧 patrick@fireballz.ai
- 🔗 LinkedIn — where I pretend to be professional
- 🐙 GitHub — where you can see my actual personality
TL;DR: Professional infrastructure arsonist who keeps the Fireball Industries stack from becoming actual fireball. Helm charts, Kubernetes clusters, and industrial IoT by day. Crying into Grafana dashboards by night. Still here. Still shipping. Still questioning my career choices.
Last updated: When the alerts stopped long enough for me to edit this file