My name is Evan "Hippy" Slatis, and I am a software architect and consultant with over 30 years of experience. This site is for expressing views and/or training and labs sharing what I think I’ve learned regarding CICD, OpenShift and Kubernetes, application DevOps, and software development and architecture.

Any opinions expressed on this site are solely my own.

Career Overview

  • Consultant since 1993

  • Software developer since 1993

  • Software architect since 2002

  • Held almost every position in software engineering from Staff Developer to Director of Software Engineering

  • Worked in a wide swath of industries ranging from manufacturing to financial to biotech and more.

  • Worked in organizations of all sizes ranging from founding startups to Fortune 500

  • Will work as a consultant advising C-suite clients to being a heads-down-hands-on-keyboard resources, as client needs dictate.

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Technical Overview

While not a comprehensive list, I have varying levels of experience in the following languages and technologies:

  • Cloud

  • OpenShift/Kubernetes

    • Specializing in application deployments and cloud migrations

  • Helm

  • Kustomize

  • Languages

  • Java

    • Spring Boot

  • Groovy

  • Python

  • JSON/YAML

  • Bash/Shell

  • CICD

  • Jenkins

  • GitHub Actions

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OSS Contributions

OSS Projects

I currently have two main projects that are interrelated, both licensed under the heckert gnu.small LGPL 2.1.

  • 74575819?s=200&v=4 el-CICD
    My main, current project is a turnkey, configurable, enterprise CICD solution for Kubernetes licensed under the LGPL 2.1. The project is built on top of 256 Jenkins.

  • el-CICD Charts
    A large subproject of el-CICD in and of itself. They are a collection of helm Helm Charts that support dynamic values files, arbitrary deployment profiles, and a complete set of Kubernetes resource templates to support application deployments.

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Site technology stack

This site was built, rendered, and hosted using the following resources:

  • GitHub Mark ea2971cee799 Github
    GitHub hosts this site and the source for the labs. GitHub as a product is a developer and OSS-friendly platform that allows us to create, store, manage and share our code, and a Microsoft subsidiary as a company.

  • 3083652?s=48&v=4 Jekyll
    Jekyll is a static site generator written in Ruby. This blog is wholly created from it.

  • asciidoctor logo Asciidoc
    AsciiDoc is a human-readable document format, semantically equivalent to DocBook XML, but using plain-text mark-up conventions. All the primers are written in and formatted with Asciidoc, which is a much stronger and better markup language than standard or GitHub style Markdown.

  • asciidoctor logo jekyll-asciidoc
    Jekyll supports Markdown as a document format by default. The jekyll-asciiDoc plugin enables Jekyll to use AsciiDoc document.

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