Hi, my name is Ruben Rodrigues.
I’m a jack-of-all-trades engineer, part-time debugger, full-time overthinker, and currently employed by the fine folks at Red Hat as a Senior Consultant. I spend my days wrangling OpenShift and its many charming yet unpredictable cousins (looking at you, layered technologies). Basically, if it runs on a computer and occasionally breaks, I’m your guy.
I love to deep dive, understand, and dissect. Wether it’s electronical or mechanical.
My journey into the tech realm started young—too young, perhaps. I asked my dad one innocent question:
“Hey, what can I do on the computer besides play games?”
Bad move.
He handed me a 500-page book about C. I was 10. Most kids got comic books. I got pointers and segfaults.
After struggling to understand loops (seriously, why were loops harder than conditions?!), I decided to rebel by learning HTML, which didn’t have any loops. Victory! Or so I thought… until I realized HTML by itself was about as interactive as a rock. So I dove headfirst into PHP, SQL, JavaScript, and Linux, using legendary sites like Site du Zéro and Grafikart as my training grounds.
I later studied computer science and spent three years in an apprenticeship doing a little bit of everything:
- Running performance tests on business applications
- Keeping servers alive (sometimes by yelling at them)
- Deploying Kubernetes clusters and pretending they obey me
And now? I’m still doing what I love: exploring, experimenting, occasionally screaming into the void of a broken CI pipeline, and writing about it here so you can laugh, learn, or just feel better about your own setup.
Thanks for stopping by. Wear a helmet. It gets nerdy in here.