About Me

I’m a systems engineer in the Bay Area with ten years of professional IT experience across universities, B2B SaaS companies, and advanced manufacturing environments supporting R&D and factory operations. My work sits between the network layer and the end user: identity and access management, endpoint lifecycle, platform architecture, and the automation that keeps small IT teams from drowning in manual process. I’ve led security certifications solo, built MDM programs from zero, and designed IAM architectures that let organizations scale without adding headcount they can’t afford.

This site is where I publish the things I build outside of work. Most of what you’ll find here are guides and tools focused on privacy, security, and self-hosted infrastructure, built to be accessible to people who don’t do this for a living. I believe the gap between enterprise-grade security practices and what’s available to individuals and families is wider than it needs to be. A lot of that gap isn’t technical. It’s documentation. The tools exist. The guides that meet people where they are, often don’t.

Everything I publish here is open source or freely available. I scope projects the same way professionally and personally: define the problem, identify who it’s for, build the solution, and document it so someone else can maintain it without me. Sometimes the best way forward is to start with the outcome and work backward to where things are now. That’s how most of these guides are structured, and it’s how I approach problems at work. If a guide has trade-offs, I’ll tell you what they are before you start. If a tool isn’t the right fit for your situation, I’d rather you know that upfront than find out after you’ve spent money.

I’m open to professional conversations, collaboration on open source projects, and feedback on anything published here. The best way to reach me is at [email protected].