SRE specialist building Rootweaver — a personal AI infrastructure platform on K3s, with prosumer GPU, autonomous SRE triage agent, RAG-backed knowledge graph, and MCP-as-primary surface. Solo build, ~12 months of evenings + weekends.
Day job: SRE at BT Group (UK, 14-year tenure) Side build: Rootweaver — single-engineer end-to-end personal AI platform
- 📝 Blog: rduffy.uk / blog.rduffy.uk — Building in Public series, architecture decisions, lessons from production homelab
- 📡 RSS: blog.rduffy.uk/rss.xml
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rduffyuk
- K3s + vLLM + Qdrant + FalkorDB — production homelab AI stack
- MCP aggregator pattern — 29 tools spanning vector search, code-intelligence graph, workflow analytics
- Autonomous SRE agent — Alertmanager → Kafka → LLM-backed triage with 5-way evidence fan-out
- GitOps with FluxCD, observability with Prometheus + Grafana + Tempo, sealed-secrets
- AI orchestration as a primary engineering mode — directing Claude Code / Aider / Perplexity as a virtual team
Latest: Season 3: Platform Engineering in Public — Rebranding from ConvoCanvas to Rootweaver, autonomous SRE agent, streaming journals with Kafka + vLLM, dual knowledge graphs.
