About
I'm Dominic, a senior IT systems engineer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My work centres on the platforms that engineering teams rely on — identity, endpoints, infrastructure provisioning, and the automation that holds it all together. A large part of what drives me is building the team itself: establishing IaC practices, shifting manual toil into code, and creating systems that let people work at scale without needing to be in the room for every change.
I'm particularly interested in Platform Engineering — the discipline of treating internal infrastructure as a product. That means Kubernetes, GitOps, and open-source tooling, explored hands-on rather than just read about. My homelab is where most of that learning happens: a place to break things without consequences and bring that experience back to production.
What I work on
- Platform engineering — Kubernetes, GitOps (Flux)
- Infrastructure as code — Terraform, Ansible, Packer; managing identity (Okta, Entra), virtualisation (vCenter, Proxmox), and cloud resources as code
- Automation — Python tooling, self-hosted CI with Actions Runner Controller, workflow and lifecycle automation
- Self-hosting — Proxmox control planes, Intel NUC worker nodes (×3), Home Assistant, Plex
Background
Nearly a decade in enterprise IT. I started as a junior support technician, and developed into an endpoint management lead — building out device management programs, hardening fleets, and keeping engineering organisations running. Over time the scope grew: I moved into identity, platform, and infrastructure work, and with it came a conviction that the manual, ticket-driven approach to managing systems doesn't scale.
That shifted how I work. I began codifying identity management — first Okta, then Entra ID — using Terraform, treating IAM policy and lifecycle automation the same way engineers treat application code. The same approach followed into virtualisation (vCenter, Proxmox) and the broader infrastructure layer. Most recently I've been leading the systems engineering team at Latitude AI in Pittsburgh, where the focus is building the foundations — and the practices — that let engineering teams move fast without eroding what's underneath.
Contact
The best way to reach me is via email or GitHub.