{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Zachary Estrella - Boston DevOps Engineer","link":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/","description":"Recent content on Zachary Estrella - Boston DevOps Engineer","generator":"Hugo -- gohugo.io","language":"en-US","lastBuildDate":"Sun, 16 Jan 2022 14:16:27 -0500","item":[{"title":"New Year, New Company, New Goals","link":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/blog\/goals-for-2022\/","pubDate":"Sun, 16 Jan 2022 14:16:27 -0500","guid":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/blog\/goals-for-2022\/","description":"This past November 2021, I joined OpenSpace as a Senior DevOps Engineer. What pulled me in? The culture, the people, and the technical challenges that were set forth. I have been here for about 3 months now and it\u2019s a breath of fresh air. After the interview process, I had extremely high expectations for the culture. A few weeks in and my expectations were blown away. This motivated me to set some ambitious technical goals for the new year knowing I had landed a position like this."},{"title":"Sage Labs","link":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/gallery\/sagelabs\/","pubDate":"Sun, 16 Jan 2022 14:16:27 -0500","guid":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/gallery\/sagelabs\/","description":"Founder of Sage Labs, a consulting company in the NFT universe. Bringing clients anything from random image generation, solidity contracts, website creation, and Web3 integrations. Focusing on the future of NFTs by bridging the gap between bleeding edge technology and real world use cases. Whatever the problem set forth, we stride to provide innovative ways to solve old world problems."},{"title":"Project Spagett","link":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/gallery\/spagett\/","pubDate":"Sun, 21 Nov 2021 16:38:51 -0500","guid":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/gallery\/spagett\/","description":"Spagett is the brainchild of two guys with a passion for food, art, and gaming. We believe the future is NFT and in the eventual metaverse. That\u2019s why we wanted to share this passion in a pixelated art collection of different kinds of pasta emulating our love for everything food. We grew up on Sunday gravy\u2019s, learning the best techniques on how to keep your meatballs together, etc. We want to keep those memories alive through a medium we both understand; art."},{"title":"Project Spagett and Stackos Integration","link":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/blog\/spagett-and-stackos-integration\/","pubDate":"Sun, 21 Nov 2021 16:38:51 -0500","guid":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/blog\/spagett-and-stackos-integration\/","description":"Check out the post on Medium here.\nDecentralization has always been one of the core focuses of Spagett, which is why we store the image data of our NFTs on IPFS, deploy our application on a decentralized cloud, leverage Metamask\/ web3 for contract integration, and use Infura for our contract interaction. More protection equals a more stable project wouldn\u2019t you agree? This is why we go with StackOS.\nWorking with StackOS and their team has offered something that as project managers, developers, etc, we always wanted- stability, security, and decentralization."},{"title":"The Art Dept","link":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/gallery\/fantasmas\/","pubDate":"Sun, 21 Nov 2021 16:07:03 -0500","guid":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/gallery\/fantasmas\/","description":"An artist collective trying to save our culture by preventing climate change through NFT art auctions which support climate action. Our goal is to be the biggest NFT for positive change in the world.\nCheck out TheArtDept\nI wrote a blog post for our marketing collaboration with StackOS, and handled all technical aspects of their first drop, Fantasmas, like:\nRandom image generation with python. Used the following libraries\/tools: Jupyter Notebook Pillow, a fork of the Python Imaging Library Mint website\/metadata API."},{"title":"TheArtDept and StackOS Integration","link":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/blog\/theartdept-and-stackos-integration\/","pubDate":"Sun, 21 Nov 2021 16:07:03 -0500","guid":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/blog\/theartdept-and-stackos-integration\/","description":"Check out the post on Medium here.\nThe Art Dept. is excited to announce a collaboration with StackOS to host our mint website \u2014 to mint our first generative NFT art collection Monday! The ease of using their platform to deploy our web application and quickly iterate on new features gave us the building block we needed to move forward at a fast rate.\nOne key feature we appreciated was the granular control we were given for our containerized application."},{"title":"Welcome to Kubernetes","link":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/blog\/welcome-to-kubernetes\/","pubDate":"Sun, 26 Apr 2020 15:46:51 -0400","guid":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/blog\/welcome-to-kubernetes\/","description":"We, the people on this planet, are in a tough time battling the terrible Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic. I hope everyone is staying strong and healthy during these times. Remember, you are not alone. Reach out to friends and family, even if you have not spoken to them in years. We are all in this together.\nWith statewide suggestions regarding self quarantining and social distancing, I have been using this time to dive into the open-source community."},{"title":"Summary of Git Internals","link":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/blog\/summary-of-git-internals\/","pubDate":"Tue, 23 Apr 2019 22:16:10 -0400","guid":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/blog\/summary-of-git-internals\/","description":"A senior engineer recommended I should read Chapter 10 Git Internals - Plumbing and Porcelain and assigned it to me as a task. I remember him saying that anyone who took the time to read this chapter would understand how git works to the core, and make themselves a better engineer. I can confirm that his statement was true. My understanding of git is much stronger now than it was and I intend on summarizing what I learned in this blog."},{"title":"Hello World","link":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/blog\/hello-world\/","pubDate":"Sat, 02 Mar 2019 22:22:10 -0500","guid":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/blog\/hello-world\/","description":"Hello World!\nThis is my first go at a website after having the thought of creating one linger inside my head for a few years in college. Being active on twitter, I saw the prerelease of this new top-level domain called .dev. Reading more about this top-level domain, I found out that to host a website it has to be https. I knew this was my perfect opportunity to finally launch my website and take a stab at putting out content publicly."},{"title":"Coda","link":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/gallery\/coda\/","pubDate":"Fri, 01 Mar 2019 21:11:10 -0500","guid":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/gallery\/coda\/","description":{}},{"title":"I'm Zachary Estrella","link":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/about\/","pubDate":"Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:02:32 -0500","guid":"https:\/\/estrella.dev\/about\/","description":"A Senior DevOps Engineer in the Greater Boston Area in Massachusetts. languages = ['python', 'bash'], tools = ['Kubernetes', 'Ansible', 'Terraform', 'Docker', 'Packer', 'EKS', 'AWS', 'Gitlab'], hobbies = ['Mixed Martial Arts', 'Hiking', 'PC Gaming', 'Cryptocurrency'], skillset = languages + tools + hobbies View my code on GitHub, connect with me on LinkedIn, follow me on Twitter, and check out my work below."}]}}