About Me

Professional

Infrastructure Engineer with deep expertise across cloud platforms, DevOps automation, and virtualization technologies. Experienced in designing and implementing multi-account architectures on both AWS and Azure, building hybrid cloud environments that bridge on-premises and cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and container orchestration solutions. Skilled at migrating legacy workflows to modern CI/CD pipelines, optimizing DNS and networking configurations, and evaluating architectural trade-offs for scalability and maintainability. Practical AI experience earned hands-on: self-hosting LLM inference with GPU passthrough, integrating local models into real services, and building AI features for small data workloads.

My Thoughts on AI

AI is great — as an assistant. I really like what AI empowers me to do: it can condense work and research down so I can move faster and think at a higher level.

My issue comes when, instead of someone using AI for themselves and then conveying the information in their own words, they just copy-paste the AI's output as their own. That presents a big inefficiency: if that's all it is, I should have just asked the AI directly. The value a person adds is the judgment, filtering, and understanding they bring on top of the output.

So I'll continue to filter through my team's output rather than pass it along untouched — and I really hope everyone does the same.

Current Workflow & Tools

The tools and hardware I run day to day, at work and in the lab:

  • Agents: click here for my roster
  • Proxmox Servers: running the homelab, with some low-end GPUs for local inference
  • Ubiquiti Network Switch: tying the lab network together
  • GitHub Actions & Pages: building and hosting this site and anything public-facing

Who I Am

Born and raised in Louisville, I have been chaos testing homelab infra since I was a teen. Constantly taking apart computers and editing scripts and game files made me the engineer I am today. Nowadays I try to do more structured chaos engineering and am working with my own homelab gear. I am always trying to optimize my maximum data throughput as I hate waiting. Deep down I like to think I am living the dream of the kid who just wanted to know how computers work.

Professional Media I Follow

Staying sharp means a steady diet of good sources. Here's what I keep up with:

AI

Andrej Karpathy channel avatar Andrej Karpathy AI Explained channel avatar AI Explained bycloud channel avatar bycloud Matthew Berman channel avatar Matthew Berman Emergent Garden channel avatar Emergent Garden IndyDevDan channel avatar IndyDevDan Sebastian Kamph channel avatar Sebastian Kamph Digital Spaceport channel avatar Digital Spaceport Kimi AI channel avatar Kimi AI

Software Development

Theo – t3.gg channel avatar Theo – t3.gg Hussein Nasser channel avatar Hussein Nasser Visual Studio Code channel avatar Visual Studio Code Flutter channel avatar Flutter Code Bullet channel avatar Code Bullet atopile channel avatar atopile FinePointCGI channel avatar FinePointCGI Big Boy Games channel avatar Big Boy Games TroubleDEV channel avatar TroubleDEV

DevOps & Homelab

Platform Engineering channel avatar Platform Engineering John Savill's Technical Training channel avatar John Savill's Technical Training Techno Tim channel avatar Techno Tim Craft Computing channel avatar Craft Computing ServeTheHome channel avatar ServeTheHome Spaceinvader One channel avatar Spaceinvader One apalrd's adventures channel avatar apalrd's adventures Awesome Open Source channel avatar Awesome Open Source NetBird channel avatar NetBird

Security

John Hammond channel avatar John Hammond Matt Brown channel avatar Matt Brown Shannon Morse channel avatar Shannon Morse

Hobbies & Extras

When I'm not working, I'm usually still at a keyboard or a workbench:

  • Gaming: longtime gamer — it’s also half the reason the homelab has a GPU
  • 3D Printing: self-taught CAD, designing and printing functional parts
  • Homelabbing & Computer Building: building and tuning PCs and lab servers — Proxmox, self-hosted services, and way too many containers
  • Drone Flying: amateur pilot, but really want to make my own one day
  • Microcontrollers: software and hardware design on embedded boards