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Full stack developer. Builds applications, APIs and the systems that carry them — then keeps them running. Most of the work is solo: architecture, implementation, deployment, and the maintenance nobody volunteers for.Full stack developer. Builds applications, APIs and the systems that carry them — then keeps them running. Most of the work is solo: architecture, implementation, deployment, and the maintenance nobody volunteers for.

Prefers to understand how a thing works before using it, then find the plainest way to make it work. Self-taught by habit — reads the source, traces a fault to its root, and distrusts complexity that exists only to look advanced. Would rather build the thing than sit in a meeting about building the thing.Prefers to understand how a thing works before using it, then find the plainest way to make it work. Self-taught by habit — reads the source, traces a fault to its root, and distrusts complexity that exists only to look advanced. Would rather build the thing than sit in a meeting about building the thing.

Got here out of curiosity about how computers actually work. That has not changed; only the scale has. Code, then servers, then Linux, then the whole machine and how its parts talk to each other.Got here out of curiosity about how computers actually work. That has not changed; only the scale has. Code, then servers, then Linux, then the whole machine and how its parts talk to each other.

• LINUX & SELF-HOSTING runs its own infrastructure
• HOMELAB TINKERER production is a bigger homelab
• CURIOUS BY DEFAULT reads the source, not the summary