April 8, 2026
Building a VM Provisioning Pipeline from Scratch
How I designed a system that provisions Windows VMs with custom configurations, handles credential injection, and maintains security through automated hardening.
Software Engineer
Hi, I'm Brenden.
I build things for the web.
Software engineer passionate about infrastructure, developer tools, and building systems that scale. Currently writing about what I'm learning and sharing the projects I'm working on.
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Latest Writing
All posts →March 22, 2026
Why I Chose Astro Over Next.js for My Personal Site
A practical comparison of two great frameworks and why shipping zero JavaScript by default was the right call for a content-focused site.
March 5, 2026
Debugging ECS Health Checks at 2 AM
The story of a subtle race condition in our container orchestrator health check reconciliation loop, and the map-based pool pattern that fixed it.
Featured Projects
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Workspace Manager
A full-stack platform for managing cloud development environments with real-time desktop streaming and automated provisioning.
ReactGoAWSWebRTC
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Port Whisperer
A lightweight CLI tool that automatically detects, labels, and manages local development server ports across your projects.
TypeScriptNode.jsCLI
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Dexbox
An open-source agent for provisioning and managing virtual machines with custom ISO generation and automated security hardening.
GoVirtualBoxWindows