https://blog.krauza.com/Recent content in sre-notes on Austin's SRE NotesHugoen-usWed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.krauza.com/about/Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.krauza.com/about/<div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 32px;"> <img src="https://blog.krauza.com/assets/austink.jpg" alt="Austin Krauza" style="width: 280px; height: 280px; object-fit: cover; border-radius: 50%; border: 2px solid var(--line);"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <p><strong>Austin Krauza</strong> is a Vice President, Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer at JPMorganChase, where he architects and oversees large-scale cloud infrastructure across private cloud, Kubernetes, and AWS platforms. With nearly a decade of enterprise SRE experience, Austin leads technical and operational response for high-severity, firm-wide incidents, serving as both hands-on contributor and incident commander for events with widespread customer impact. He has architected on-premise GPU cluster infrastructure supporting AI training and inference workloads, and built firmwide observability platforms leveraging Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk. Additionally, he also works to advise teams on security architecture including PKI, Kerberos, and OIDC authentication, and coaches teams on implementing SLOs, telemetry, and reliability engineering fundamentals. Austin holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from New York University and multiple AWS certifications, and was a member of the JPMorgan Chase Expert Engineer class of 2023.</p>https://blog.krauza.com/posts/dreamlight_valley_ai_chat/Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.krauza.com/posts/dreamlight_valley_ai_chat/Not every AI project needs a business case. Here&rsquo;s how I wired up a local AI assistant to help me play a cozy video game — using OpenWebUI, a MediaWiki MCP server, and a healthy dose of stubbornness.https://blog.krauza.com/posts/daily-briefing-architecture/Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.krauza.com/posts/daily-briefing-architecture/A personal news pipeline assembled with Claude — from RSS feeds to a spoken-word podcast, all on a machine under the desk.https://blog.krauza.com/posts/ssh_certificates/Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.krauza.com/posts/ssh_certificates/How the introduction of SSH Certificates into an environment reduces risk and increases visability into SSH use.https://blog.krauza.com/posts/sloconf_2022/Mon, 09 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.krauza.com/posts/sloconf_2022/Very commonly within the Reliability Engineering community, we talk about Service Level Objectives (SLO’s), but rarely do we talk about the underpinning indicators that tell us whether a system is healthy. In this talk, we talk about systems that all around us, and how to pick out some indicators. This is my presentation from SLOConf 2022.