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My name is Xavier, and this is my corner of the web.

I’m a husband, dad, and DevSecOps engineer. When I’m not working, you’ll usually find me tinkering in my home lab or jogging around Philadelphia.

I write about what I’m currently learning—both to share knowledge and to solidify my own understanding. This site started as a personal wiki of sorts, a place to document concepts, ideas, and lessons I wish I’d had earlier in my career. Here you’ll find posts on what I’m learning, things I find interesting, and topics I think are worth breaking down simply.

Hopefully, you find something useful. Please feel free to reach out.

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Load Balancers VS Proxies

Load balancers and proxies shape how traffic is routed through modern systems—deciding where requests go, how they get there, and how services stay reliable and secure. In this post, I’ll break down what each one is using with simple, digestible analogies. What Is A Load Balancer? A load

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A Bitbucket Migration Didn't Go According to Plan

I was tasked with containerizing our Bitbucket instance at my job. The migration went well, but what followed wasn’t quite as smooth. A sneaky, unexpected issue popped up—here’s what happened. Bitbucket and its underlying infrastructure needed an upgrade. We wanted to get the VM to an up-to-date

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5 Lessons Learned as a DevSecOps Engineer in 2025

Between learning new tools, drinking from the proverbial fire-hose, and figuring things out as I went, this year in my role as a DevSecOps Engineer was packed with challenges (more than a few 😅) and meaningful growth. What I didn’t expect was how much the role would teach me beyond

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