Lovell Felix

Dallas, TX · [email protected] · linkedin.com/in/lovellfelix

Infrastructure and reliability engineer who came up through systems administration. I currently own configuration delivery for a Linux fleet of more than 500,000 production hosts, along with the deployment safety, observability, and incident response practices that keep it running. Curious about AI-assisted engineering workflows. Skeptical of most of the hype.

Operating strengths

Configuration delivery at fleet scale

Safe rollouts and change governance

Linux platform engineering

Reliability as operating practice

Observability, SLOs, and on-call

Postmortems that produce durable defaults

Migration of legacy systems under load

Stateless design and recovery-oriented architecture

AI-assisted engineering workflows

Clear written communication under incident pressure

Career

The lead case study, fleet-scale configuration delivery for 500,000+ Linux hosts, is on the selected work page.

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Technical focus

Configuration: Puppet, CFEngine, Ansible Tower, Spacewalk, Git
Observability: OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Splunk, ExtraHop, KQL
Platform: Kubernetes, OpenStack, HAProxy, Keepalived, NFS
Systems: Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS/RHEL, Azure Linux, macOS