aws cost management — right-sizing a personal estate
A billing audit of the tacedata.ca AWS account that found $59/month in infrastructure charges on a site that was supposed to cost nearly nothing — and reduced it to $3.63/month.
projects
traffic analytics — cloudfront logs and athena
Attempting server-side traffic analytics for tacedata.ca using CloudFront access logs and AWS Athena — and what the CloudFront Free pricing plan actually allows.
economic indicators dashboard
A Canadian mortgage rate decision aid — eight economic indicators translated into plain-English signals.
security remediation — what we got wrong
A post-launch security review of tacedata.ca uncovered sensitive AWS identifiers committed to a public repository. This is a full account of what was exposed, how it was found, and what it took to fix it.
tacedata.ca — this site
A static portfolio site built with Hugo and deployed to AWS via a fully automated GitHub Actions pipeline.