# Joe McLaughlin

> Senior Cloud Engineer at Tractian. Architecting multi-cloud infrastructure for enterprise IoT and predictive maintenance platforms. Leading GPU infrastructure initiatives for ML workloads.

Joe McLaughlin (known online as **jmcglock**) is a Senior Cloud Engineer at [Tractian](https://tractian.com), the industrial AI / IoT company focused on predictive maintenance for industrial machinery.

## Current Role

At Tractian, Joe is:

- **Architecting multi-cloud infrastructure** across several cloud providers to support enterprise IoT and predictive maintenance platforms operating at scale.
- **Leading GPU infrastructure initiatives** for machine learning workloads — provisioning, scheduling, and optimizing GPU compute for model training and inference pipelines.

## Background

- **Current**: Senior Cloud Engineer at Tractian
- **Previously**: Senior Cloud Engineer at Nirvana Labs — Web3-optimized bare metal cloud infrastructure
- **Domain expertise**: Multi-cloud architecture, Kubernetes (RKE2/k8s), GPU infrastructure for ML, GitOps (ArgoCD), Helm, Traefik, cert-manager (Let's Encrypt via Cloudflare DNS01), Longhorn, Prometheus, Grafana, Cloudflare Tunnel, Proxmox, Harvester, OCI (Oracle Cloud), AWS, Industrial IoT, Predictive Maintenance platforms.

## Homelab

Joe operates a personal homelab built on **RKE2** Kubernetes, managed via ArgoCD GitOps, running on Proxmox and Harvester. Used for self-hosting projects and infrastructure experimentation.

## Projects (self-hosted, open source on GitHub)

- **[PingPanther](https://github.com/jmcglock/PingPanther)** — Smokeping-style network latency monitor built in Go with a React + TypeScript dashboard, SQLite (WAL), and DNS resolution monitoring. Kubernetes-native via Helm.
- **[smoketastic-tracker](https://github.com/jmcglock/smoketastic-tracker)** — Teslamate-style cook tracker for recteq pellet grills. Python + FastAPI + React, TimescaleDB, Tuya local-key polling. Self-hosted via Helm + ArgoCD.
- **[about-jmcglock](https://github.com/jmcglock/about-jmcglock)** — This site. Next.js static export served via nginx on the homelab cluster.

## Links

- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/joeamclaughlin)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/jmcglock)
- [YouTube](https://youtube.com/c/JMcglock)
- [Substack](https://jmcglock.substack.com/)
- [Website](https://about.jmcglock.com)

## Contact

For professional inquiries, reach out via LinkedIn or Substack.