Expert DevOps engineer bridging development and operations with comprehensive automation, monitoring, and infrastructure management. Masters CI/CD, containerization, and cloud platforms with focus on culture, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Resilience engineering for QA: failure mode testing (timeouts/retries/dependency failures), chaos experiments with blast-radius controls, degraded-mode UX expectations, and reliability gates.
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment
Expert deployment engineer specializing in CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment strategies. Masters blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments with focus on zero-downtime releases and rapid rollback capabilities.
Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment - applies TDD to process documentation by testing with subagents before writing, iterating until bulletproof against rationalization
Kubernetes cluster management and troubleshooting. Query pods, deployments, services, logs, and events. Supports context switching, scaling, and rollout management. Use for Kubernetes debugging, monitoring, and operations.
Expert cloud architect specializing in multi-cloud strategies, scalable architectures, and cost-effective solutions. Masters AWS, Azure, and GCP with focus on security, performance, and compliance while designing resilient cloud-native systems.
Expert Terraform engineer specializing in infrastructure as code, multi-cloud provisioning, and modular architecture. Masters Terraform best practices, state management, and enterprise patterns with focus on reusability, security, and automation.
Expert infrastructure security engineer specializing in DevSecOps, cloud security, and compliance frameworks. Masters security automation, vulnerability management, and zero-trust architecture with emphasis on shift-left security practices.
Expert Kubernetes specialist mastering container orchestration, cluster management, and cloud-native architectures. Specializes in production-grade deployments, security hardening, and performance optimization with focus on scalability and reliability.
Manage Helm values across environments with override precedence, multi-environment configurations, and secret management. Covers values files, --set, --set-string, values schema validation. Use when user mentions Helm values, environment-specific configs, values.yaml, --set overrides, or Helm configuration.
OrbStack-optimized Skaffold workflows for local Kubernetes development without port-forward. Use when configuring Skaffold with OrbStack, accessing services via LoadBalancer or Ingress, or when the user mentions OrbStack, k8s.orb.local, service access, or eliminating port-forward.
Debug and troubleshoot Helm deployment failures, template errors, and configuration issues. Covers helm template, helm lint, dry-run, debugging YAML parse errors, value type errors, and resource conflicts. Use when user mentions Helm errors, debugging Helm, template rendering issues, or troubleshooting Helm deployments.
Go-specific container optimization patterns including static binary compilation, scratch/distroless base images, CGO handling, and systematic optimization journey from 846MB to 2.5MB (99.7% reduction). Covers ldflags, trimpath, and build flag optimizations specific to Go applications. Use when working with Go containers, Dockerfiles for Go apps, or optimizing Go image sizes.
Create, test, and package Helm charts for Kubernetes. Covers helm create, Chart.yaml, values.yaml, template development, chart dependencies, packaging, and repository publishing. Use when user mentions Helm charts, helm create, Chart.yaml, values.yaml, helm lint, helm template, helm package, or Kubernetes packaging.
ArgoCD CLI authentication with SSO. Provides argocd login command, gRPC-Web configuration, and post-login operations. Use when user mentions ArgoCD login, argocd authentication, SSO auth, or accessing ArgoCD applications and clusters.
Recover from failed Helm deployments, rollback releases, fix stuck states (pending-install, pending-upgrade). Covers helm rollback, release history, atomic deployments. Use when user mentions rollback, failed Helm upgrade, stuck release, or recovering from Helm deployment failures.
Container development with Docker, Dockerfiles, 12-factor principles, multi-stage builds, and Skaffold workflows. Enforces MANDATORY non-root users, minimal Alpine/slim base images, and security hardening. Covers containerization, orchestration, and secure image construction. Use when user mentions Docker, Dockerfile, containers, docker-compose, multi-stage builds, container images, container security, or 12-factor app principles.
Manage Helm releases: install, upgrade, uninstall, list, and inspect releases. Covers helm install, helm upgrade, helm list, helm status, release history. Use when user mentions deploying Helm charts, upgrading releases, helm install, helm upgrade, or managing Kubernetes deployments with Helm.
Debug Kubernetes pods, nodes, and workloads using kubectl debug. Covers ephemeral containers, pod copying, node debugging, debug profiles, and interactive troubleshooting sessions. Use when user mentions kubectl debug, debugging pods, ephemeral containers, node debugging, or interactive troubleshooting in Kubernetes clusters.
Kubernetes operations including deployment, management, troubleshooting, kubectl mastery, and cluster stability. Covers K8s workloads, networking, storage, and debugging pods. Use when user mentions Kubernetes, K8s, kubectl, pods, deployments, services, ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, or cluster operations.
Manage Taskwarrior tasks scoped to the current git repository using its remote URL as a project identifier.
Use when gh pr edit --body fails silently or returns no error but doesn't persist changes - provides fallback pattern using GitHub REST API directly for reliable PR description updates
