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01 / Challenge

Onboarding a new engineer meant a full day of manual setup — cloning repos, installing binaries, fighting environment drift. Every machine was a unique snowflake.

02 / Solution

Built a Go CLI that reads a single declarative manifest and provisions the entire dev environment: containers, tools, secrets, and dotfiles — idempotently and in parallel.

03 / Impact

Cut engineer onboarding time from 6+ hours to under 12 minutes. Eliminated "works on my machine" bugs across a team of 30.

04 / My Role

Sole author. Designed the manifest schema, built the provisioning engine, and shipped the internal distribution pipeline via a private OCI registry.