The Backstory (Short Version)
I found PowerShell, caught the automation bug, and realized I could make a career out of being lazy in the best way: automate it.
When I found PowerShell, I got bit by the automation bug and realized I could make a career out of being lazy in the best way: automate it once and stop doing it by hand. AdminToolkit and HelpDesk were two of the first tools I built for day-to-day work.
That push toward automation pulled me into the DevOps world, which came with a whole new toolchain and a whole new set of problems to solve across Terraform, GitOps, and Kubernetes.
As a DevOps engineer, I realized one of my biggest gaps was empathy for the developer workflows I was shaping. I was blessed to step into a full-stack role where we owned the entire microservices stack end to end: app code, tests, CI/CD, container registry, cloud Kubernetes, security controls, firewalls, backups, and VPN.
As I grew, that pulled me into platform engineering, where I do not just own CI/CD, I own the platform it deploys to. That means large Kubernetes clusters, RBAC at scale, and high-security air-gapped environments, while pushing AI at the edge of what agentic engineering can do.
This site is where I keep notes while details are fresh: what broke, what held, and what I would change next round.