whoami
I'm an infrastructure engineer who builds, ships, and quietly keeps running the systems small businesses and homelab tinkerers actually need — cloud, websites, automation, and AI that behaves. The busywork disappears; you don't have to know how.
00 / why-me
Most tech people go deep on one thing. I go wide — years running real production infrastructure, just as comfortable standing up a cloud environment, wiring a CI/CD pipeline, self-hosting a homelab, building a website, or getting a team using AI without leaking their business. When a problem touches five things at once and nobody owns the whole picture, that's the job I'm built for. I work fast, I test what I ship, and I tell you straight what something should cost.
01 / how-i-build
You should know how the work gets made before you pay for it.
I'm not going to pretend I hand-type every line — in 2026, that would mean charging you more for slower work. I'm an infrastructure engineer who leverages AI to build working software fast. The AI does a lot of the leg work; I direct it, review every piece, and I don't ship what I can't stand behind. My edge was never remembering syntax — it's knowing what to build, wiring it into real infrastructure, and proving it actually works. That's the part AI can't do for you.
The code has to prove it works, not just look right. Every build is backed by tests.
You own the repository. Every change is tracked, reviewable, and reversible.
You get the source and the docs — no lock-in, no mystery, no hostage code.
02 / services
Fixed-scope where it makes sense, hourly where it doesn't. Each can be a one-time build, an ongoing arrangement, or both.
"I've got a spare PC — help me do something with it."
Design and build for self-hosters and small offices: media servers, NAS, Tailscale networks, dashboards, reverse proxies, real backups. Handed off with docs so you actually own it.
"Your cloud, your account — I run it."
I stand up (or clean up) your AWS or Azure, deploy what you need, then maintain it month to month on your account. You own the infrastructure and the bill; I own keeping it healthy.
"I need a site and I don't want to deal with it."
Small-business sites built, deployed to your own cloud, and kept online. The whole stack — I do this for a living, and this page is the demo.
"We do this by hand every week and it's killing us."
Repetitive process, meet a script. Pipelines and automations in Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or plain Python — the boring work that quietly saves hours forever.
"How do we use AI — safely — without leaking our data?"
The practical version, not the hype. I get your team productive with AI, set the guardrails so nothing sensitive walks out the door, and build the internal tools and document workflows that actually earn their keep.
"Everything's on fire and nobody can figure out why."
The gnarly, cross-domain mess that's fallen between the cracks of everyone else's job. Hourly or on retainer. This is the one I like most.
03 / managed-plans
Once it's built, I'll maintain it on your own cloud account. Month-to-month, no lock-in, cancel with 30 days' notice. Your cloud provider bill is separate and paid by you.
04 / process
A free call. You tell me the mess; I tell you if I'm the right guy for it. No pitch.
A clear scope and price up front — fixed-bid where I can, hourly where the work is open-ended.
I do the work, test it, and hand it off with documentation you can keep.
Want it kept running? Roll onto a managed plan. Don't? You still own everything.
Tell me what you're trying to do — or what's already broken. If I'm the right guy, we'll figure it out. If I'm not, I'll tell you who is.
# Birmingham / Chelsea, AL · remote-friendly