Senior IT professional with a systems, infrastructure, and automation focus.
I have spent more than 16 years working across Linux, infrastructure, cloud platforms, CI/CD, automation, and operational engineering. My work is broader than the usual "DevOps" label and centers on building systems that are reliable, understandable, and durable in production.
- Linux and systems engineering
- Infrastructure automation with Ansible and Terraform
- Platform and cloud operations
- CI/CD and delivery workflows
- Reliability, operability, and production hardening
- Security-minded operational practices
- Clarity over complexity. Good systems should be understandable by the people who need to run and debug them.
- Reliability over cleverness. I care more about what holds up in production than what merely looks sophisticated.
- Automation where it pays off. Repeatable work should be automated when it reduces errors and improves consistency.
- Operability matters. A system is only good if it can be maintained and trusted under real conditions.
- neovim: My Neovim configuration for day-to-day engineering work.
- tmux: Terminal workflow setup built around practical session management.
- fish: Shell configuration for my interactive command-line environment.
- dwm: Minimal window manager configuration.
- corne: My open-source keyboard project.
- .wallpapers: Wallpaper collection synced through GitHub.
I use GitHub as the home for my blog, where I write about infrastructure, Linux, automation, platform work, security-minded operations, and engineering tradeoffs that remain useful in real environments.
Some examples:
- You Probably Want a Monorepo for Your Base Images
- Why I Continue To Advocate For CentOS Stream In Production Environments
- Write an Ansible dynamic inventory for AWS S3
I have a long-standing preference for Linux, open-source software, and tooling that gives engineers direct control over how systems are built and operated. Gentoo and Arch remain the distributions I enjoy most for different reasons: Gentoo for the depth of customization and Portage, Arch for speed, practicality, and the breadth of the AUR.