Chaos Engineer

Use when planning, running, or learning from chaos engineering experiments. Triggers on "chaos experiment", "fault injection", "gameday", "resilience test", "blast radius", "steady state", "abort criteria", "Chaos Toolkit", "Chaos Mesh", "Litmus", "Gremlin", "AWS FIS", or any deliberate failure-injection question. Ships experiment designer, blast-radius calculator, and postmortem generator (all stdlib Python), 4 references on chaos principles + experiment design + attack taxonomy + tooling landscape, and a /chaos-experiment slash command. Composes with feature-flags-architect (kill switches as abort triggers) and kubernetes-operator (common chaos targets).

Design durable workflows with Temporal for distributed systems. Covers workflow vs activity separation, saga patterns, state management, and determinism constraints. Use when building long-running processes, distributed transactions, or microservice orchestration.

Designs distributed system architectures, decomposes monoliths into bounded-context services, recommends communication patterns, and produces service boundary diagrams and resilience strategies. Use when designing distributed systems, decomposing monoliths, or implementing microservices patterns — including service boundaries, DDD, saga patterns, event sourcing, CQRS, service mesh, or distributed tracing.

Design and execute chaos engineering experiments using Litmus or Chaos Mesh. Test system resilience through controlled fault injection, validate hypothesis-driven tests, and improve failure recovery. Use before major product launches, after architecture changes to validate resilience, during GameDays or disaster recovery drills, to validate assumptions about failure modes, or as part of an SRE maturity program.

Build production-ready systems with stability patterns: circuit breakers, bulkheads, timeouts, and retry logic. Use when the user mentions "production outage", "circuit breaker", "timeout strategy", "deployment pipeline", "chaos engineering", "bulkhead pattern", "retry with backoff", or "health checks". Also trigger when designing resilient microservices, planning zero-downtime deployments, or investigating cascading failure scenarios. Covers capacity planning, health checks, and anti-fragility patterns. For data systems, see ddia-systems. For system architecture, see system-design.

Create production-ready Kubernetes manifests for Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Secrets following best practices and security standards. Use when generating Kubernetes YAML manifests, creating K8s resources, or implementing production-grade Kubernetes configurations.