This page contains some of my public work as a developer advocate at
Element and is not exhaustive. I previously worked as a developer,
enterprise architect, and internal evangelist (yes, that's a thing!)
Deployment
Understanding Synapse Hosting 
Containers can look overwhelming when you're not used to it… and they
are! You need to understand a few concepts before you're comfortable
with them, but they allow flexible, sturdy deployments.
In this tutorial I teach the basics of Synapse hosting, and how to
start on the right foot with a future-proof architecture, following
the best practices in the field.
Watch the tutorial on YouTube.
- containers
- docker compose
- traefik
Deploying Synapse with Ansible 
What screams "sturdy" louder than "reproducible and scalable
deployments"? Ansible is a powerful tool that allows homelab hackers
to set-up disposable development or staging environments that matches
what they have in production. It's also one of the classic tools in
the Ops/SREs toolbox.
In this tutorial, I walk people through deploying and maintaining a
Synapse set-up with Ansible.
Watch the tutorial on YouTube.
An OIDC Playground with Synapse and Authentik 
Ansible allows sturdy deployments, and makes it easy to deploy several
services across several machines. As your platform grows, it becomes
increasingly cumbersome to remember different passwords for different
applications, or dangerous not to.
In these tutorials we deploy
Authentik, a flexible OpenID Provider, make Synapse trust it, and then perform
account reconciliation for existing accounts. At the end of the
tutorials, people have a SSO-enabled Synapse server with account
reconciled.
Watch the tutorial about the deployment
and
the one about the accounts reconciliation
on YouTube.
- containers
- ansible
- openid connect (oidc)
- python
- rest apis
Deploying your own Matrix bridge to Discord 
One of the promises of Matrix is the sovereignty of your
infrastructure. Whether your community already exists on Discord and
your want to give it a safe place on Matrix without a big bang, or you
want to leave your community to participate via Matrix or Discord to
their liking, this tutorial shows you how to host your own Matrix
bridge to Discord.
Watch the tutorial about the deployment
- containers
- docker compose
- mautrix-discord