Professional
I'm an infrastructure-focused IT professional specializing in systems design, identity & access management, security-minded administration, and operational reliability with hands-on experience in GMP-regulated environments.
My approach is straightforward: build systems that are reliable, understandable, and recoverable. Clear boundaries, least-privilege access, documented changes, and designs that stay maintainable as they grow.
TekForge is where I test, refine, and document those ideas in practice, working through architecture decisions, validating deployment patterns, and building the kind of infrastructure that can be explained clearly, rebuilt cleanly, and operated with confidence.
I'm especially drawn to environments where stability, auditability, and disciplined troubleshooting matter; where the right answer is often the boring, defensible one.
That same instinct runs past the day job. I operate a multi-domain, self-hosted infrastructure stack, identity, automation, virtualization, networking, and recovery, run at production standard rather than as a sandbox. Most of my personal tech operations live there now, not as test cases but as the real thing. Longer term, I'm working toward land and a more self-sufficient setup, built the same way I build everything else: documented, recoverable, designed to outlast the person who set it up. I'd rather get something right slowly than get it wrong fast.
For deeper dives, postmortems, and the longer version of how I got here, see the Writing section.
Principles
Build for recovery, not just deployment.
Prefer clarity over cleverness.
Keep access intentional and boundaries explicit.
Document the work so it can be understood and repeated.
Design systems that stay maintainable as they grow.