Hi! 😊

I'm Copeland — British-American software engineer and new resident of California! I'm looking for dev roles and would love to hear from you if you have a lead.

I have a passion for software infrastructure, having started a home server in high school on a tiny Debian machine with 2GB RAM (which is now back in use!) moving through Docker, then Podman on RHEL on ESXi and finally Kubernetes on Ubuntu with the associated cloud-native FluxCD + Linkerd + PromStack etc setup.

Here's a recent project I did based on the fantastic TV show Severance running on my home "production" K3s cluster: wellness.copey.dev

It's a parodic take on the "Wellness Sessions" the severed employees get at work, where they have no memory of their life on the outside — their "Outie". The site is static JS (now I appreciate why TypeScript exists!) and uses a customized CRT-style WebGL shader. My initial implementation included a tiny LLM deployed with Ollama which could generate facts on the fly, but they were way, way worse than what I could come up with. The final speech files were generated with a finetuned fish-speech model, then run through some mild post-processing using SoX and Python.

Outside of computers I'm a big cyclist — mountain biking and bike touring:

Last summer I rode 3030 miles from the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies to LA via Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and the Pacific Coast!

I wrote a blog documenting the trip on biking.copey.dev

And made a video montage out of clips of the ride, set to U2:

And last year I rode 900 miles from London to Zürich via Paris, Dijon, Geneva and the Alps:

POV descent down the stunning Furkapass, the location where they shot the Alpine shootout in the classic James Bond film Goldfinger:

Here's a couple video edits I made in Resolve: