How I got here.
Nobody handed me a career path. Every time I ran out of new things to learn, I found the area I had the least exposure to and switched into it.
- Where it started PowerShell automation
Got bit by the automation bug in a heavily regulated shop. Built AdminToolkit and HelpDesk, stopped clicking through runbooks, and picked up Security+.
- Wanted the whole pipeline DevOps
Scripts only covered my corner. I wanted to see how software actually ships, so I moved into DevOps: Terraform on Azure, CI/CD, PKI automation that went from hours to seconds. CISSP along the way.
- Wanted the app side too Full-stack
I wanted to understand the apps I was deploying, so I joined a team that owned everything from app code to firewalls. Go services, Helm on GKE. Learned to care about the people using what I build.
- Wanted the platform underneath Platform engineering
Big Kubernetes clusters, RBAC at scale, GitOps with ArgoCD, air-gapped environments, Ansible across whole fleets. Fast only counts if you can roll it back.
- Now AI everything engineer · Team lead, solutions architect
AI means one person can finally work across the whole stack, so I do: infra, code, and the agents that write it. I lead a team now, and most of that job is mentoring and training people to use AI well. I'm also building YahwAI, an AI Bible-study tool, on the side.
If I repeat something twice, I script it on the third pass.