I am passionate about building tools and systems that help developers be more productive and successful. Here is a collection of open-source projects I have created or contributed to over the years, organized by focus area.

AI

As AI transforms the technology landscape, I have been building tools to help developers leverage these powerful capabilities:

• AI Chat Accelerator - A production-ready reference implementation for building RAG-based AI chat applications on AWS.
• Bedrock Tools - A streamlined Python library for working with Amazon Bedrock’s Conversation API.
• AWS News Agent - An AI-powered assistant that helps you stay current with AWS news and announcements.
• Page Insights - Leverage AI to generate intelligent summaries of web pages.

AWS Containers Expertise

I was an early adopter and advocate for AWS Fargate, creating several widely adopted tools that improved the developer experience:

Fargate Tooling

• Fargate Create CLI - A pioneering CLI tool for scaffolding AWS ECS Fargate applications, featuring an opinionated multi-environment setup and an extensive template library.
• Fargate CLI - Simplifies image deployments with support for docker-compose.yml files.
• Fargate CLI Build - Build environment for the Fargate CLI.
• Terraform Fargate - Simplified, less opinionated version of fargate-create for Fargate deployments.
• Fargate SAM - Template for deploying public ALB + ECS Fargate services using CloudFormation and SAM CLI.
• Fargate SQS Worker - Boilerplate for Fargate containers processing SQS queues.

Fargate Infrastructure Templates

A collection of production-grade Terraform templates for AWS container deployments (compatible with the Fargate Create CLI tool):

• ALB Template - The gold standard for deploying web applications on Fargate, including logging, observability, and auto-scaling.
• Specialized Templates:
  • HTTPS with DNS/TLS
  • Network Load Balancer
  • API Gateway Integration
  • Background Workers
  • Scheduled Tasks

Other AWS Container Tools

• Ephemeral Preview Environments - An innovative solution for container-based preview environments using Lambda.
• App Runner Multi-region - Reference architecture for highly resilient, multi-region applications.
• App Runner Demo - Containerized application deployment on App Runner.
• Amazon App Runner Deploy - GitHub integration for AWS App Runner deployments.
• Compose to Batch - Transform docker-compose.yml into AWS Batch job definitions.
• EC2 Metadata in Docker - EC2 instance metadata mocking service.

Developer Productivity Tools

Go Tools & Libraries

I have created numerous tools in Go to solve common development challenges:

• Go HTMX Tailwind Example - Example CRUD app showcasing Go + HTMX + Tailwind CSS.
• Gotoolbox - A collection of useful Go tools that use only the standard library, with no external dependencies.
• S3lib - Simplified Go library for S3 operations.
• Scaffolder - Go library for tools that generate files and directory structures.
• SecretsManager Sidecar - An elegant solution for managing AWS Secrets in containerized environments.
• Default Backend - Simple HTTP server for health checks and default responses.
• KPL Server - Multi-language support for the Amazon Kinesis Producer Library, which is written in Java.
• KPL Client Go - Go client library for KPL Server.
• Protonizer - CLI tool for AWS Proton Infrastructure as Code.

Project Templates

Battle-tested starter templates that accelerate development:

• Cookiecutter Python - Modern Python project scaffolding.
• Python Template - Quick-start Python project structure.
• Go Template - Quick-start Go project structure.
• Terraform Starter - Production-ready Terraform project foundation.
• Lambda Python Template - Streamlined AWS Lambda development in Python.

AWS Cloud Architecture

Solutions and reference implementations for various cloud architecture patterns:

• PDF/Video Extraction Pipeline - An automated content extraction system using AWS services.
• Doppler - A high-scale registration service showcasing AWS scalability.
• Lambda FURL TF - A simple Lambda URL implementation using Terraform.
• Proton CodeBuild Examples - Sample templates for AWS Proton with CodeBuild.
• Rekognize - CLI wrapper for the AWS Rekognition API.
• SAML Keygen - An authentication tool for AWS using the ADFS SAML provider.

Container Orchestration

Tools for container management and deployment:

• Harbor - An abstraction layer for container orchestration systems.
• Harbor Compose - A Docker Compose-like tool for Harbor deployments (written in Go).
• Harbor Terraform Provider - Use Terraform to manage Harbor applications (written in Go).

🔧 My Development Environment: Check out my dotfiles to see how I set up my development environment.