Homelab platform
A 13-service Docker Compose platform on Ubuntu with an OpenTelemetry pipeline into Prometheus, Loki and Grafana. It also hosts this site's CMS behind a Cloudflare Tunnel.
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Kevin Shokri
Solutions engineer · Cloud & DevOps · AI agents
20+ years building and running infrastructure, then explaining it to the people who buy it. AWS Solutions Architect Professional, now shipping production AI agents on the Anthropic API, and running the 13-service homelab this site is published from.
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- AI program manager · TrendSense AIDesigned and deployed production AI agents on the Anthropic API, cutting a 90-day go-to-market planning cycle to 65 days and raising output accuracy 23% over 12 traced prompt iterations.Feb 2026 – now
- Career break · Family caregivingFull-time family caregiving.May 2025 – Feb 2026
- Solutions architect · Brierley & Partners (Capillary Technologies)Led a 15-person cross-functional team delivering enterprise loyalty implementations, and published reference architectures that sped client API integrations 15%.Sep 2024 – Apr 2025
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- Founder & principal architect · Digital Unicorn LLCRan all infrastructure for a 26-user healthcare practice at 99.9% uptime, cut business-hours outages 20% year over year, and passed every HIPAA review with zero findings.Aug 2021 – Oct 2024
- Solutions architect · Amazon Web ServicesLed architecture reviews across 50+ enterprise accounts, averaging 15% lower AWS spend, and converted 12 of 18 proofs of concept into production workloads.Mar 2019 – Oct 2020
- Sales engineer, multi-cloud · DoubleHornGuided 5 public-sector agencies to approved migration plans across AWS, Azure and GCP.Jul 2018 – Feb 2019
- Senior sales engineer · SolarWindsRan technical evaluations across metrics, APM, uptime and log monitoring for DevOps teams, and reached 104.5% of quota in 2017.Oct 2015 – Sep 2017
- Systems engineer · iControl Networks (now Comcast Xfinity Home)Led 24/7 on-call for Comcast, Rogers and Cox, resolving 18 Severity 1 incidents, and built a Python and Bash audit tool that cut upgrade validation time 33%.Jun 2014 – Oct 2015
- Pre-sales engineer · Gemalto (now Thales)Scoped PCI-DSS-compliant hosted solutions across 16 RFP/RFI responses supporting $18M in bids.Nov 2013 – May 2014
- System design engineer III · Netscout (Tektronix Communications)Ran the worldwide demo and validation environment for a carrier network-monitoring platform, supporting 145 customer engagements a year.Feb 2008 – Apr 2013
- Senior network operations engineer · Securus TechnologiesRan 24/7 monitoring and incident response for 200+ servers, 1,500 remote sites and 2 data centers at 99.9% availability.Mar 2002 – Feb 2008
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ESP-Rover: voice-controlled mecanum rover
An M5StickC rover on mecanum wheels that drives on spoken commands, backed by a serverless AWS pipeline (API Gateway, Lambda, Transcribe) provisioned with Terraform.
shippedChicago crime analysis agent
A LangGraph agent on Claude that answers plain-English questions about Chicago Police Department data, with LangSmith tracing and evaluators, human review for safety advice, and Terraform for AWS.
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First how-to coming soon.