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Grant Redfearn

Hello, I'm Grant Redfearn

Principal DevOps Engineer, astrophotographer, and musician. I build resilient platforms at scale, capture the night sky, and create experimental music. Welcome to my corner of the internet.

What I Do

Platform Engineering

Building and operating Kubernetes platforms at scale. I specialize in infrastructure automation, developer tooling, and system reliability.

Astrophotography

Capturing deep sky objects from dark sky locations. From nebulae to galaxies, I document the cosmos one exposure at a time.

Music Production

Creating ambient and experimental soundscapes. My work explores texture, space, and the intersection of acoustic and electronic sound.

Latest From The Blog

NixOS Ended My Dotfile Chaos

2026-05-21

After years of manually syncing dotfiles across machines and maintaining complicated bash scripts/brewfiles/bespoke configurations, I rebuilt my entire development environment using NixOS and Nix flakes. Here's what I learned and how you can replicate this setup.

Get In Touch

Interested in collaborating or just want to say hello? I'd love to hear from you.