ASHTON
FOULGER
INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER & FULL-STACK DEVELOPER
Building robust AI/ML platforms with Go, Kubernetes, and Terraform—designed for scale, speed, and reliability.
ABOUT
USER BIO
Infrastructure engineer with fullstack development experience and a DevOps mindset. I design scalable, cloud-native platforms that power AI/ML workflows and tools, with deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Go, and major cloud platforms. I architect and build complete applications from frontend interfaces to production infrastructure, ensuring seamless user experiences and reliable backend systems.
Focused on automation, reliability, and optimizing CI/CD pipeline delivery for modern AI applications in production environments.
TECHNOLOGY STACK
FRONTEND
BACKEND
DATABASES
INFRASTRUCTURE
TOOLS & CLOUD
ORCHESTRATION & TESTING
CORE COMPETENCIES
PERSONAL DATA
PROJECTS
MY PET TAG
COMPLETEDFullstack application utilizing NFC technology to scan pet tags allowing for real-time access to pet profiles containing health, behavioral, and veterinary history. Assisting in reuniting lost pets with their owners
TECHNOLOGIES
HOME LAB AUTOMATION
IN DEVELOPMENTPersonal homelab automated with Terraform, to provision 5 VM's in Proxmox, deploy a k3s cluster using ansible integrated with MetalLB, Traefik, and Rancher.
TECHNOLOGIES
KLA BREAKTHROUGH CONSULTING
COMPLETEDFreelance project to design and develop a website for KLA Consulting, a consulting firm that provides FDA regulatory consulting services.
TECHNOLOGIES
PROJECT SOLAR
COMPLETEDSolar panel monitoring and statistics dashboard, using a personal solar panel API to fetch and display real-time solar panel data. Including live power production, energy collected over time, and live status of per-panel operation's.
TECHNOLOGIES
JENKINS TERRAFORM MODULE
COMPLETEDA Terraform module to deploy a VPC, public and private subnets, a kubernetes cluster, and deploy a fully provisioned Jenkins server, with connected workers to deploy applications, and run CI/CD pipelines. Across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
TECHNOLOGIES
COUNTER STRIKE CLONE
COMPLETEDBuilt a Counter Strike clone using Unity game engine, and C# to mimic the game mechanics and gameplay. Learned how to design maps, implement game mechanics, netcode, and optimization techniques that allowed for a fully functional multiplayer game.
TECHNOLOGIES
EXPERIENCE
INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
SCHOOLAI
2025 - PRESENT
ACTIVESpearheading the development and automation of scalable cloud-native systems within a fast-moving AI ed-tech environment. Implementing dynamic autoscaling with KEDA to optimize service responsiveness and cost-efficiency across production workloads. Architecting CI/CD pipelines, Dockerized environments, and Helm/Kubernetes-based deployments to streamline staging and production rollouts. Enabling secure internal access through Cloudflare tunnels, and enhancing system observability with custom Datadog dashboards and Slack-integrated GitHub workflows. Driving continuous infrastructure improvement through Terraform, Go-based tooling, and internal platform reliability enhancements.
TECHNOLOGIES USED
DEVOPS ENGINEER
OPENTEXT
2022 - 2025
COMPLETEDLed infrastructure automation efforts and enhanced DevOps workflows across enterprise systems. Pioneered a migration from Jenkins to GitLab CI to modernize build pipelines and orchestrate Kubernetes-native workloads. Played a critical role in rearchitecting the Advanced Authentication infrastructure using Terragrunt for improved scalability and modularization in AWS and EKS. Built robust integration tests for IAM systems simulating monthly active user behavior, and maintained complex deployments using Terraform, Helm, and Ansible for consistent CI/CD automation and cluster operations.
TECHNOLOGIES USED
FULL-STACK ENGINEER INTERN
ILUMENS / INNOSYS
2022 - 2023
COMPLETEDEngineered full-stack features for Smart Buildings dashboards, integrating Django and PostgreSQL for backend data pipelines and React/Redux for responsive frontend interfaces. Enhanced the ASIP API to support large-scale dataset transfers. Diagnosed and resolved over 20 UI/UX bugs, and implemented high-coverage test suites to ensure functional reliability. Contributed to smoother cross-platform data validation and user-facing performance improvements.
TECHNOLOGIES USED
SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
NIGHTINGALE COLLEGE
2021 - 2022
COMPLETEDManaged infrastructure operations and automated user provisioning across the organization. Designed and implemented scripting-based automation for Active Directory and endpoint setup, enabling scalable onboarding for over 500 users. Supported the college's data warehousing efforts by deploying servers and configuring Splunk forwarders, accelerating log ingestion for downstream analytics. Integrated tools like Jamf, Grafana, and Group Policy to enforce secure and consistent system management policies.