I solve problems by building things.
My professional world is public safety technology and enterprise infrastructure. My personal world is what happens when the same problem-solving habit follows me home.
Builder.
Troubleshooter.
Terrible at leaving technology alone.
I spend a lot of time asking, “Why are we still doing it that way?”
I work in systems engineering and public safety technology, where reliability is not an abstract architecture goal. Networks, identity, virtualization, security, communications and infrastructure have to support people doing real work.
That background shaped the way I approach almost every project: understand the actual problem, build something practical, test the failure points, and document the version that finally works.
I am less interested in technology that looks impressive in a demo than technology that solves the problem I actually have.
Apparently I do the same thing for fun.
At home, the enterprise mindset turns into Proxmox, Docker, Cloudflare, Home Assistant, Frigate, Raspberry Pi, ESP32, 3D printing, energy automation and a homelab that is never quite finished.
Camera notifications are useless. DNS has a single point of failure. A control panel is too hard to use.
Draw the architecture. Add redundancy. Ask whether AI is actually useful here.
Usually with hardware I already own, a mini PC, a Raspberry Pi or something I can print.
The preview image is right. The opened image is wrong. CPU hits 100%. Good. Now we know something.
This site is the part where I turn the troubleshooting mess into something another person can actually follow.
I wanted one place for the projects that do not fit neatly on a résumé.
A résumé can say “systems engineer.” It does not explain why I moved Frigate off a virtual environment, built AI-assisted camera notifications, automated a server rack around time-of-use utility rates, or spent far too long making a low-cost thermal printer produce a usable Pirate Ship barcode.
Those projects are the useful part. They show how I think, what failed, and how I make technology fit a real environment.