about.md
The fuller story
// how I ended up arguing with YAML for a living
I'm a cloud architect and DevOps engineer who got into this line of work the way most of us do: something broke, I got curious about why, and the curiosity never really stopped. My first real "incident" was a home server I built out of spare parts in college, running a Minecraft server for a dozen friends. It went down constantly. Fixing it, over and over, taught me more about Linux, networking, and grace under pressure than any course did.
These days that curiosity is pointed at making infrastructure boring — in the good way, where nothing pages you at 3am and deployments are a non-event. I work across the stack: provisioning, networking, the CI/CD pipelines that ship code safely, and the observability that makes a system trustworthy, not just running. I like tools that do one thing well, documentation that future-me will actually read, and postmortems with more curiosity than blame.
Alongside client and contract work, I've founded a handful of companies — a general IT and web shop, a marketing agency, and a subscription penetration-testing service — mostly because I kept noticing gaps that were more interesting to fill than to complain about.
How I got here
First login to a terminal
Discovered Linux on a hand-me-down desktop, broke something within the hour, and learned more from the fix than from anything that went right the first time.
Uptime became personal
Moved into hosting and infrastructure work as a junior sysadmin, where "it's down" is a full sentence and a call to action, usually at the worst possible time.
Founded Apex Media Group
Started a marketing and hosting agency on the side. It didn't stay "on the side" for long.
Went cloud-native
Containers, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD stopped being buzzwords and became the default way anything ships, on every project I touched.
Founded DB Analytica
Turned a decade of "can you also just fix this" requests into a proper IT and web development consultancy.
Now
Architecting resilient, automated systems for teams who'd rather build their product than babysit servers — plus running OffensiveSecurity.US on the side for people who want their infrastructure tested before someone less friendly does it for them.
Things I've founded
DB Analytica — 2023–present
Founder & CEO. Creative, flexible IT solutions spanning web development, digital marketing, managed IT services, UI/UX, and QA.
// where bugs come to die
Apex Media Group — 2019–present
Founder & CEO. Full-spectrum marketing services — outsourcing, administration, consulting, and hosting, tailored per client.
// making other businesses look good since 2019
OffensiveSecurity.US — 2020–present
Founder & CEO. Compliant, subscription-based penetration testing — on-demand pen test procurement any time, no long contracts.
// we break things so you don't have to
Certifications
// 14 and counting
Off the clock
Interests
// touch grass: pending PR
Languages
// I speak human too, not just machine
Quick facts
- RoleCloud Architect & DevOps Engineer
- Based inRemote-first, worldwide
- Founded3 companies since 2019
- Certifications14, security + infra focused
- AvailabilityOpen to contract work
On this page
Want the résumé?
Full work history, references, and the certifications in one PDF.
View résumé Get in touchcontact.sh
Sound like a fit for your team or project?
Whether it's a full cloud migration or one server held together with hope, happy to take a look.