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
- 40–80 Support requests handled weekly alongside infrastructure project work
Selected Infrastructure Work
- Operational infrastructure Active
The Homelab
An active lab environment for virtualization, storage, networking, backup, self-hosting, and local AI infrastructure practice.
- WIP documentation system WIP
CUE-Verse
A systems-design and documentation layer for keeping lab decisions, deployment notes, and operational context understandable.
- Linux workstation practice Active
Aeon Desktop and the Immutable Workstation
Immutable Linux and Distrobox experimentation focused on reproducible workstation tooling and daily operating workflows.
- Public documentation platform Active
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.
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Trusted Proxmox Certificates with ACME DNS-01
Proxmox already has the pieces to get trusted certificates with ACME DNS-01, without exposing a node or pointing a public IP record at it.
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Iteration as Method
The first output isn't the work. It's the starting point. What changes when you treat AI-assisted work as a cycle -- generate, evaluate, refine -- rather than a prompt waiting for the right answer.
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Systems That Build Systems
The most useful thing AI changes isn't individual tasks -- it's the economics of building the systems that do the tasks. When scaffolding gets cheap enough, you build infrastructure you'd have skipped. That infrastructure compounds.
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