About Me
I'm a Lead Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of professional IT experience. I've been at a keyboard since I was three years old, and I've spent most of my adult life trying to understand how the layers underneath a running service actually work, from packet to process to platform.
Most of my hands-on work today sits at two ends of the same spectrum:
Kubernetes and AWS on the production side, where I run highly
available platforms for a living, and FreeBSD and networking
on the homelab side, where I run a self-built pf router and a
fleet of small services that exist mostly to keep me sharp.
The project I keep coming back to is OpenWorld, a mobile-first coordination layer for civic action. Truly open-sourcing the world: an overlay where anyone can pin a place, propose an idea, flag an issue, recognise something working, or organise a time-bounded event. People are good. Action compounds. Agency over guilt.
Before the MSP work I spent six years going up the stack the long way, IT administration at a Beverly Hills capital group, systems administration at AT&T / DirecTV, and cloud-migration leadership at a payments processor (Atlantic Pacific Processing Systems), where I led three concurrent migrations from Azure / Eukhost / Linode into a consolidated AWS environment. That route, domain controllers and Ansible fleets to AWS Control Tower and Kubernetes, is what underwrites the SRE work today.
I'm mostly self-taught but I started formal CS coursework in 2017 and finished a Bachelor's in Computer Science at Western Governors University alongside an Associate of Arts in CS, Math, and Physics from West Los Angeles College. I'm AWS-certified, a long-time FreeBSD advocate, and a committed Vim golfer.
When I'm not on call I'm usually iterating on the network, building out the FreeBSD pf router, writing about the pf rules that hold it together, or refining the NixOS configs that define everything behind it.
Looking for the longer story? The resume covers four years as a contingent SRE on an Enterprise Platforms Integration team at a top-tier technology company, plus the prior decade across payments, telecom, and financial-services infrastructure. The /now page is the current snapshot.
