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Ray Shao

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering student building and operating reliable production systems at the intersection of cloud computing, AI/ML workloads, and developer tooling. Incoming Site Reliability Engineer Intern on Tencent's AI Compute Centre, operating AI-accelerated HPC clusters (InfiniBand/RoCE, Slurm, Kubernetes). Manages GCP infrastructure at Google through incident response and root cause analysis, built CI/CD pipelines and internal platforms at AMD, and operates self-hosted Kubernetes clusters. Targeting Cloud Engineering, SRE, DevOps, and Platform Engineering.

Ray Shao

Recent build logs

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  1. 2026.09.29
    8 min

    Homelab telemetry: Proxmox, InfluxDB, Telegraf and two GPU vendors on one dashboard

    How I built the monitoring stack for the Proxmox rack, and the three weeks it spent silently broken because Telegraf fetched its own config from the database it was supposed to feed.

  2. 2026.09.27
    9 min

    Tricking Apple Silicon into native CUDA via homelab Proxmox

    How I built a transparent compiler proxy and runner stub architecture to compile and debug CUDA kernels on a remote Pascal GPU directly from macOS.

  3. 2026.09.13
    6 min

    SSH and RDP into the homelab: a phone as my only dev machine

    I stopped syncing state across a laptop and a desktop and just moved the whole dev environment onto the H12D-8D. SSH for terminal work, RDP for anything that needs a screen, reachable from a phone.

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