All systems operational ·0 active incidents ·home region: us-east · Beech Island, SC last deploy: today
v11.6 STABLE engineer · builder · operator

Shaw as a Service

A senior cloud consultant & platform engineer by trade — and a compulsive builder off the clock. Clusters and identity systems by day; raised garden beds, Lego sets, and a well-worn passport the rest of the time. 99.97% uptime, 11+ years in production.

Jessica Shaw online
Uptime
99.97%11+ yrs in prod
Clearance
TSactive · attested
p50 response
< 24hincl. weekends
Countries visited
224 continents · since '17

Services

The managed offerings. Infrastructure and identity at federal scale, plus an independent build shop.

# operational

Platform Engineering

operational

OpenShift & OpenShift Virtualization, Ansible Automation Platform, RHEL fleet management. Day-2 ops automated end to end.

openshiftAAPkubernetes.coreRHEL 10

Identity & Access

operational

FreeIPA / Red Hat IdM at scale. Privileged-access modernization with a DRY / single-source-of-truth model — 73% fewer sudo groups.

FreeIPAIdMzero-trust sudoRBAC

Observability & Day-2 Ops

operational

Splunk aggregation, Dynatrace + Event-Driven Ansible remediation, backup/restore automation, and VM performance tuning.

splunkdynatraceEDASRE

Program Leadership

scaling

Technical program management for large migrations — PMP-certified, change-practitioner-backed. Currently provisioning more capacity.

TPMPMPproscisix sigma

Shaw & Associates

independent

The build shop. SharePoint site architecture, requirements traceability matrices (RTMs), program deliverables, and GA residential contracting.

sharepointRTMPMOcontractor

Open Source

operational

Public IdM reference architecture targeting RHEL 10 — CLI sudo cleanup guides, FreeIPA patterns, and reusable Ansible content.

githubansibledocs

Stack health

Core dependencies, 90-day rolling.

# nominal
Ansible Automation Platform99.9%
FreeIPA / Identity Management99.9%
OpenShift / Kubernetes98.4%
Enterprise Linux (RHEL)99.9%
Security & Compliance96.0%
Program / Stakeholder Mgmt99.2%

Changelog

Shipped work, newest first.

# release notes
v11.6
2025 → now

VMware → OpenShift Virtualization migration infra

Building Day-2 operations automation as a consultant on a large-scale virtualization migration at a federal health agency — restore automation, log aggregation, and event-driven monitoring across the OpenShift estate.

v11.2
early 2026

Privileged-access modernization security

Re-architected sudo across an enterprise fintech identity platform using a DRY / single-source-of-truth method — 73% fewer privileged groups with zero loss of access fidelity.

v11.0
ongoing

Shaw & Associates build shop pm / build

Independent shingle for PM and delivery work — SharePoint site builds, requirements traceability matrices, program dashboards, and GA residential contracting.

v10.4
2025

Public IdM reference architecture open source

Shipped a public reference repo for Red Hat IdM on RHEL 10 — FreeIPA CLI sudo-cleanup guides and reusable Ansible patterns for the community.

v8.0
labs era

Infrastructure at national laboratories infra

Linux systems administration and identity infrastructure across high-security national-lab and federal environments. Where the uptime streak began.

v∞
always-on

Off-hours: garden, Lego, passport life

The background processes that never stop running. Scroll down for the live ps output.

Regions

Edge locations — everywhere I've deployed, what's scheduled, and the region I'm migrating toward.

# 22 countries · 4 continents
Beech Island
us-east · SC
home
Primary region. Garden beds and the home lab live here.
Amsterdam / The Hague
eu-west
target
Visited the Netherlands three times already. The region I'm migrating toward — relocation-ready.
Seoul · Hanoi · Bangkok
ap · scheduled
Oct 2026
Next rollout. A three-city Asia leg booked for October.

# field photos

eu-west · europe12 zones
  • France '22 '24 '25
  • Netherlands '22 '23 '24
  • United Kingdom '24 '25
  • Scotland '25
  • Ireland '25
  • Portugal '25
  • Germany '23
  • Belgium '23
  • Switzerland '23
  • Czech Republic '23
  • Hungary '23
  • Türkiye '23
amer · americas10 zones
  • United States '22
  • Mexico '17 '18 '25
  • Canada '25
  • Belize '25
  • Costa Rica '23
  • Panama '24
  • Dominican Rep. '24
  • Bahamas '23
  • Cuba '17
  • Colombia '26
af-north · africa1 zone
  • Egypt '24

# passport: 22 countries across 4 continents · earliest stamp 2017

Off-hours

The processes that keep running after the on-call shift ends.

# still running
jessica@beech-island:~$ ps aux --human
PIDPROCESSUPTIMESTATUS
0420garden.serviceRaised beds + container plants. Seasonal, demanding, worth it.seasonal● running
1337lego.buildA set on the table at all times. Sorted by color, obviously.nightly● running
0042reno.workerDIY home projects + a 12×20 shed build. Framing out, finish work mine.weekends● running
0808kitchen.daemonCooking, mostly from scratch, occasionally ambitious.daily● running
2100poker.nightMonthly cash game. The math background helps.monthly◐ scheduled
jessica@beech-island:~$

# garden.service — recent output

# lego.build — shipped sets

# also in the workshop

Compliance & attestations

Audited credentials.

# verified
RHCE
certified
PMP
certified
Security+
certified
Scrum Master
certified
Six Sigma GB
certified
Prosci Change
certified
CISSP
rolling out · Q4
RHCA
in progress

Service tiers

How to engage. Pick a plan.

# request access
Coffee
Free / 30 min
  • Advice, intros, a sanity check
  • Career, infra, garden, or travel talk
  • No SLA, no invoice
Say hello
RECOMMENDED
Full-time
Open to offers
  • Principal / Staff Platform · TPM roles
  • Cloud, identity, large migrations
  • Amsterdam & The Hague friendly
  • Relocation-ready · TS clearance
Start the conversation
Consulting
Custom / scoped
  • OpenShift & AAP enablement
  • IdM / FreeIPA modernization
  • SharePoint, RTMs & PMO setup
Get a quote

The original spec

Every managed service starts with a spec sheet. This is the one the whole thing was built from.

# vision.board
2026 vision board

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