I came to infrastructure through security. At UC Santa Cruz, the Slug Security Club gave me a place to learn about network security and ethical hacking outside the classroom. After graduating, I worked on cloud compliance, threat modeling, and automation before moving into field engineering at Canonical. Today, I help design and deploy private-cloud systems built around Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Ceph. The work sits at the intersection of architecture, troubleshooting, automation, and security hardening. I like the point where a design stops being a diagram and has to survive real networks, real constraints, and real operators. My homelab is where I explore the same kinds of problems without placing a production environment at risk. I use it to rebuild systems from scratch, test recovery paths, experiment with GPU and AI infrastructure, and learn which ideas still make sense at a smaller scale. The blog is the notebook for that process: part runbook, part postmortem, and part record of whatever held my attention long enough to understand. Outside the rack, I watch documentaries and keep a loose queue of experiments that may eventually become something useful, including a Jetson-based ground robot and, someday, a drone. This site is intentionally personal: a place for technical write-ups, unfinished interests, and the occasional detour rather than a content strategy.