Sacramento-based systems professional
Infrastructure Engineer & Technical Consultant
Customer-focused systems professional working across Linux, virtualization, networking, storage, automation, and AI infrastructure.
I deploy, troubleshoot, document, and improve infrastructure—then make it understandable and supportable for the people who use it.
Experience at MSP Scale
Experience gained as part of a Sacramento managed-services team supporting diverse client infrastructure.
- 100+Managed-services client environments supported
- 150+Physical and virtual servers deployed, configured, maintained, or troubleshot
- 40–80Support requests handled weekly alongside infrastructure project work
Selected Infrastructure Work
- Operational infrastructureActive
The Homelab
An active lab environment for virtualization, storage, networking, backup, self-hosting, and local AI infrastructure practice.
- WIP documentation systemWIP
CUE-Verse
A systems-design and documentation layer for keeping lab decisions, deployment notes, and operational context understandable.
- Linux workstation practiceActive
Aeon Desktop and the Immutable Workstation
Immutable Linux and Distrobox experimentation focused on reproducible workstation tooling and daily operating workflows.
- Public documentation platformActive
This Site
The Astro site that publishes the work, its supporting technical notes, and the operational trail behind the build.
Recent Writing
Notes on systems, documentation, AI workflows, site infrastructure, and the work of making technical decisions legible.
Fixing Codex Desktop 401 Unauthorized Errors Caused by Stale Authentication State
A step-by-step troubleshooting and recovery guide for Codex Desktop 401 Unauthorized errors, stale API credentials, broken auth state, and CLI/Desktop mismatches on Windows and macOS.
How to Backup and Restore the Windows Registry
A quick, step-by-step guide to safely backing up and restoring your Windows Registry before making edits.
Proxmox: From Pets to Cattle and How to Balance These Ideas at Home
How Proxmox unifies disparate, repurposed hardware into a single control plane and bridges the gap between snowflake home servers and automated infrastructure.
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