James Burd
Infrastructure Engineer · Houston, TX
I'm an infrastructure engineer based in Houston, TX with hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating enterprise virtualization, Kubernetes, and AI/ML infrastructure. This site is where I document what I learn — sometimes from official documentation, more often from things breaking at 2am.
What I Write About
The focus areas here are the things I work with day to day:
- VMware / Broadcom VCF — vSphere, NSX-T, vSAN, and the ongoing saga of the Broadcom acquisition
- NVIDIA Data Center — GPU architecture, DGX systems, NVLink, and enterprise AI compute
- Kubernetes — cluster operations, GitOps, Helm, Argo CD, Cilium, and the surrounding ecosystem
- AI Infrastructure — LLM deployment, inference optimization, MLOps, and running models locally
- Homelab — self-hosted tooling, TrueNAS, Proxmox, and Docker stacks
- Networking — SDN, BGP, VLANs, Tailscale, and data center fabric design
Certifications
My verified certifications are published on Credly. You can view and verify badges at:
Connect
The best way to reach me or follow my work:
- LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/james-burd-7602414
- Credly credly.com/users/james-burd
- GitHub github.com/burdweiser
- RSS burdweiser.com/rss.xml
About This Site
Burdweiser.com is built with Astro, hosted on Cloudflare Pages, and deployed automatically from a GitHub repository. Content is written in Markdown.
The name is a play on my last name — and a reminder that good infrastructure decisions, like good beer, should be made deliberately and consumed responsibly.