Welcome

I've worn many hats throughout my career. Starting from fixing desktops and laptops,

• to running and managing a computer store,
• to running my own IT consulting firm that specialized in managing small call centers and providing VOIP services,
• being a networking engineer, managing Cisco switches, routers, and firewalls,
• being a service desk lead, making sure the service desk ran as efficiently as possible,
• being a DevOps engineer at Oracle, working on reducing the massive build times for one of their popular products,
• being a public cloud consultant for financial services, building out landing zone architectures, creating platform/application IaC pipelines and doing application migrations
• and my current job being an enterprise architect for a bank, I've had broad exposure to different tech.

I've always been a tinkerer, from being on #MP3Cafe on Undernet (early IRC days) to having a small k3s cluster at home to run various services...it has all been in the interest of my curiosity and to maintain my "hands-on keyboards" skills. This has become all the more necessary since my day job as an Enterprise Architect (EA), has me doing this less and less.

In my journey so far, I've realized a few guiding principles that work well for me. But, by far, my one main guiding principle has been the client. If the users of what I've built are happy, I'm on the right path.

Starting this blog as a way to capture some of my thoughts and opinions as I navigate my way through this amazing world of tech 🙂