Welcome to Markizano.NET
Greetings! My name is Mark Harris and I go by the name Markizano Draconus on the internet. Want to know about that? Checkout my story at story.markizano.net. I have all my stories about Markizano, a Tanninovian from a planet about 25,000 light years away in the Crux galaxy. He also has the power of Telekinesis.
I'm a software engineer who evolved into a systems administrator that eventually turned into a CloudOps engineer. I have my Associate's in CIS from UOPX and currently enrolled for my Bachelor's in Information Security. I plan on getting my Masters in CloudComputing after that and studying for my PhD after that. I have 19 years of experience with over 16 years in the field. I've been writing code since age 16 and have self-taught myself just about everything I know to date. While I range in a variety of domains such as finance, security, advertisement, physics and quantum mechanics, and more recently AI, I find myself at home optimizing process and automating simple to complex, but tedious tasks with API's or custom code that can alleviate process gaps. You can think of me as the Easy Button engineer!
In my spare time, I enjoy creating education videos to publish on TikTok and YouTube. My FinTech site is now live and you can see all my content organized by topic for free. I also am authoring a series of books and games and movies on the side (that's the Markizano Draconus story referenced earlier) and have a few other projects in the works. I'm also a huge fan of the open-source software and promote this on my channels. I'm #TeamRollYourOwn and advocate for privacy and security and command and control of your infrastructure, data, and life in general. I use Linux exclusively in all my projects and am CompTia Linux+ certified. I also recently took on a path of self-love, self actualization and seeking enlightenment. I seek to provide value to society in a meaningful way. This means I'm not your typical programmer who seems angry all the time at everything. I'm a very positive person and I'm always looking for ways to improve myself and the world around me.
Skills
Software
HTML/CSS/JS, Angular, ReactJS, Python, Node, TypeScript, and much more!
Linux
Bash, Servers, Display Managers (Gnome, KDE, LXDE, Fluxbox), GNU, GPG, SSH, Upstart/SysVinit/Systemd
Networking
DNS, DHCP, Routing, VLANs, VPNs, Firewalls, Network Architecture
Operations
Git, JIRA, Jenkins/Travis, GitHub, Scrum/Agile, Process Management, Technical Documentation
CloudOps
AWS Console, AWS-CDK, Azure, GCP, Docker, Salt/Chef/Puppet/Ansible
Projects
Yaba: Yet Another Budgeting App
Yaba is a project I started because I was dissatisfied with the budgeting landscape. Apparently, I use a tagging-based budgeting, which is different than 0-based budgeting or bucket-based budgeting. This app is my way to resolve this and maintain something under my control that I will always support. It's also local-first in that you are in control of your data. No signups, no passwords, no logins or tracking. Just you and your data.
YouTubeFFMpeg
Automated configuration-based system to convert videos using ffmpeg's filter features/functions. I use this project heavily in my videos I post on TikTok and YouTube. This has helped automate my workflow of automated subtitle generation and translations to Spanish, combining video metadata, chopping, slicing and editing videos in just the ways I need. The only thing that's missing is an auto-post function! (#FutureFeature)
Asthralios
"Az-thra-lee-os" is a project I started to help me with my AI research. I leverage things I know in Linux to help automate my operations and de-Google myself since I can roll my own AI! Plans for this project include:
- A voice service that lives in my network ecosystem that can translate my voice to text and send that to an agent
- An agent that will determine the desired outcome of the voice request. If conversational, send to the language model for response, if actionable, take appropriate action.
- A file summary or searching service. By organizing my backups, documents and other data, I can leverage language models to help me manage my backups and information.
If I learn enough from this, I could leverage what I learn from this and incorporate this into Yaba to provide a more robust budgeting experience.
SmartMeter Texas
Since I live in Texas, I have access to this API. I used it to help collate information about my electric usage. I worked with the SMT team to get my address whitelisted and this project collects and stores that info in a MongoDB for me to be able to render later and contest my electric bill with the Power Company since they often times mis-represent the readings and overcharge because of the average electric usage many companies offer here.
libkizano.py
A Python library of common functions anyone can include in their project. I use this library in some projects to keep a consistent codebase for Python based operations.
Contact
If you'd like to get in touch, feel free to email me.