Senior IT Engineer at The Linux Foundation, specializing in release engineering, cloud infrastructure automation, and developer tooling. I architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines that power some of the largest open source projects, focusing on scalability, reliability, and intelligent automation.

Currently building AI-powered agentic workflows across DevOps and home automation—from GitHub Copilot agentic CI/CD pipelines to smart home systems with AI health coaching, solar energy monitoring, and Garmin fitness tracking. Experimenting with LLM-assisted development to make infrastructure smarter and more autonomous.

When I'm not optimizing build systems or tinkering with smart home automations, you'll find me on two wheels (🚴 bicycle or 🏍️ motorcycle) or exploring trails on foot 🥾.

• Infrastructure Engineering - Cloud platforms, container orchestration, distributed systems
• Release & Deployment Automation - CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment strategies
• Developer Experience - CLI tools, APIs, workflow optimization, productivity automation
• AI-Assisted Development - LLM integration, agentic workflows, intelligent automation
• Smart Home & IoT - Home Assistant, energy monitoring, AI health coaching, Garmin fitness
• Infrastructure as Code - Declarative automation, configuration management, immutable infrastructure

🤖 Building at the intersection of AI agents, DevOps automation, and smart-home health tech. Star ⭐ anything you find useful — it genuinely helps!

GitOps for your smart home. PR-gated backup add-on for Home Assistant where every config change becomes a reviewable pull request — validated by CI and AI-assisted review before it merges. Bring version control discipline (and Copilot agents) to your house.

Home Assistant • GitHub Actions • Agentic CI/CD • GitOps

Modular, reusable configuration for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code — agents, rules, hooks, skills, and templates that supercharge AI-assisted development. Drop-in setup for anyone running agentic coding tools.

Copilot • Claude • AI Agents • Developer Experience

Self-hosted n8n AI automation stack — LLM-driven workflows, agent orchestration, and intelligent tooling wired together for real-world tasks.

n8n • LLM Workflows • AI Agents • Automation

A Matrix-native meeting bot (a modern port of the OpenDev IRC MeetBot) running live on a GitHub Actions runner — minutes, action items, and summaries without a server.

Python • Matrix • GitHub Actions • ChatOps

Your AI sport scientist. Transforms Garmin health data into evidence-based, personalized coaching — workout recommendations, diabetes tracking, and fitness analytics — in a modern web app.

Next.js • TypeScript • tRPC • Drizzle ORM • AI/ML

Home Assistant add-on that syncs Garmin Connect data into an AI-powered coaching dashboard. Multi-user health tracking with InfluxDB time-series storage and Grafana visualizations.

Python • HA Add-on • InfluxDB • Grafana • AI Coaching

Complete CI/CD infrastructure for OpenDaylight — orchestrating automated builds, testing, and deployment across 60+ repositories. Impact: 100+ developers • 500K+ builds • 99.8% uptime

Spins up ephemeral OpenStack bastion hosts wired to Tailscale — secure, zero-config VPN access to private cloud networks straight from CI, torn down when the job ends. GitHub Actions • Tailscale • OpenStack • Zero-Trust

Builds OpenStack images with Packer via bastion hosts — reproducible, automated golden-image pipelines for multi-cloud fleets. GitHub Actions • Packer • OpenStack • Image Builds

Scheduled cleanup of orphaned OpenStack resources — reclaims leaked VMs, volumes, and floating IPs on a cron, keeping cloud bills and quotas in check. GitHub Actions • OpenStack • Cost Control • Automation

Bridges the two review worlds — turns a GitHub pull request into a Gerrit change request automatically, so contributors use GitHub while projects keep their Gerrit workflow. GitHub Actions • Gerrit • CI/CD • Automation

Contributing across multiple Linux Foundation projects and communities:

• OpenDaylight - Release Engineering Lead
• Linux Foundation IT - Infrastructure Automation
• OPNFV - CI/CD Pipeline Development
• FD.io - Build System Maintenance

Shell • Python • Java • Dockerfile • JavaScript • TypeScript • Makefile • CSS • HTML • Groovy • Kotlin • PowerShell • Perl • HCL • Dart

I'm always interested in discussing:

• 🔧 Release engineering and deployment strategies
• 🐧 Infrastructure optimization and cloud architecture
• 🚀 CI/CD pipeline design and best practices
• 🤖 LLM integration and AI-assisted agentic workflows
• 🏠 Smart home automation, energy monitoring, and IoT
• 💪 Health tracking, Garmin fitness, and AI coaching
• 🌐 Open source community building and collaboration
• 🚴 Trail recommendations (tech conferences or bike trails!)

• Email: askb23@gmail.com
• Twitter/X: @askb23
• Keybase: askb
• LinkedIn: abelur
• Telegram: Available on request

If my open source contributions have helped you, consider buying me a coffee! Your support helps me dedicate more time to building tools that benefit the community.