Identity

Joe McGinley

Mostly I build tools and infrastructure that other engineers don't have to think about.

Based in Vancouver, originally from Scotland.

Senior Platform Engineer @ Semgrep

EMAIL LINKEDIN GITHUB
Side Quests
trips.jomcgi.dev
Road trip tracker for our Yukon drive. On-the-road inference to detect wildlife from a car-mounted GoPro.
ships.jomcgi.dev
Real-time vessel tracking for the Pacific Northwest. AIS data streamed via WebSocket to a MapLibre interface.
Stargazer
Dark sky locations in Scotland with clear weather forecasts. Find the best spots for astronomy tonight.
hikes.jomcgi.dev
Find hikes in Scotland with good weather right now. Forecast updates every 30 minutes.
Frank x Vancouver
Trip website for my sister's visit.
Building
Sextant
Generates typed Go for Kubernetes operators from declarative state machines.
Cloudflare Operator
Annotate a service with a domain → operator creates tunnels, DNS records, zero trust rules.
claude.jomcgi.dev
In-cluster coding assistant with SigNoz access, local vLLM for code tasks, and full cluster visibility.
Homelab github.com/jomcgi/engineering →
Status
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Monorepo
Don't want to spread context or build processes across repos
Bazel
Multi-language builds, multiplatform images with apko. Write a rule once, reuse it everywhere
GitOps
ArgoCD — mirrors what I maintain at work, scales to multiple clusters
Ingress
Cloudflare Tunnels via my operator. No open ports on my home network
Policy
Kyverno to catch mistakes — no peer reviews here
Observability
OTel auto-instrumentation where suitable, self-hosted SigNoz
Storage
Longhorn for PVs, avoiding state where possible. Critical data backed up offsite
Mesh
Linkerd for service-to-service mTLS and telemetry