Tom Acheson

About

I build multi-tenant infrastructure for a living and break things for fun. Currently platform engineering at Kaluza, running a K3s cluster on 4 Raspberry Pi 5s at home — solar powered, obviously.

Currently working on

Envoy Gateway evaluation for API gateway replacement
Webhook delivery provider research (Svix vs Convoy)
PantryPlan — a recipe & shopping list app
This very website, running on my home K3s cluster

Tech I like

Kubernetes

Go

ArgoCD

Envoy Gateway

Vault

Kafka

OPA

GCP

Grafana

Flutter

cert-manager

Cloudflare

Home lab

Nodes	3× Raspberry Pi 5 (wagyu, baobun, tonkatsu)
RAM	16GB + 8GB + 8GB = 32GB total
Power	Solar ☀️ (effectively free)
Domain	acheson.dev (you're looking at it)
Storage	USB SSDs — no SD card corruption here