solutions and infrastructure architect

I run enterprise infrastructure by day and build my own to understand it deeper.

I'm Maxfield Allison, a solutions and infrastructure architect. My day job is a multi-region enterprise Azure platform. My off hours are a 9-node Kubernetes homelab and the open-source tools that keep it honest.

I work fast by directing AI agents while owning the engineering myself. That's AI-assisted engineering, not vibe coding. The judgment is mine; the typing is just faster.

The resume →The case studies →GitHub →

table 1 · working infrastructure

9-node
Talos Kubernetes cluster
5-node
Proxmox cluster with Ceph
185 ★
dnsweaver on GitHub
4
global regions, enterprise Azure
section 1

Selected work

case study no. 1 · open source★ 185

dnsweaver

DNS records that follow the infrastructure instead of rotting behind it. Seven sources, eleven providers, one Go binary. I built it for my own lab and then spent months making it safe to hand to anyone else.

fig. 1 — record flow: seven sources reconciled to eleven providers
No. 2

The Case for a Test Environment

A global platform with nowhere to test changes, and the months it took to argue non-prod into existence. The design was the easy part.

AzureGlobal load balancingCost modelingChange management
No. 3

The Issue a Bot Closed

A BGP option nobody had gotten around to exposing, an issue that timed out after six months, and the eight days between it closing and me picking it up.

PHPPhalconFRRBGPOPNsense
No. 4

Kubernetes Homelab

Nine Talos nodes, GitOps, Ceph underneath, migrated off a ten-node Docker Swarm without losing service. Enterprise patterns, one operator, and no team to hand it to at five o'clock.

GitLabKubernetesTalos LinuxArgoCDGitOpsProxmox