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I'm a Silicon Valley sysadmin/ops guy. I'm a huge fan of RedHat-based distros (ok, CentOS) and write puppet, python, and bash. I dabble in Angular and Ruby, too. Some day I'll learn node.js and do something useful (or not) with it.
I'm not a web designer, so my stuff might look kind of ugly or stock. Oh, well.
I love *nix sysadmin work. Specifically, I love getting *nix to play nice with other systems (OS X, Windows). If you take anything away from me from this site, know that though I've got prejudices within the Linux/Unix world I'm all about getting stuff done and operating in a mixed environment.
I grew up in suburban Cleveland, OH and decided to GTFO. Landing a gig in Silicon Valley has made me never look back, and I'm thankful for the opportunities I had to move out here.
I graduated cum laude from RIT in 2013 from the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing & Information Sciences with a degree in Information Technology, minors in Networking and System Administration and Communications.
While in college, I maintained the infrastructure for WITR Radio and even DJ'd a bit (If you were one of the five people that heard Chris the Engineer talking about Passion Pit, Sleigh Bells, or Metric ad nauseum, my apologies.)
I'll be the first to admit I spend too much of my free time screwing around with new software stacks, but I've got interests in a few different places. I'm a San Jose Sharks fan and I sympathize with Buffalo Sabres fans (it's that whole "this is my first hockey team I've been exposed to" thing.) I'm also a 49ers fan, and I want to see the Browns do well (so you can say I'm delusional.)
My college radio experience at RIT kept piquing my interest in broadcast media and radio infrastructure.
I maintain that the second-most important class I took in college was called "Wines of the World" and that opened me up to the world of wine. I enjoy trying new wines and convincing people that wine can be worth enjoying.
I also game a bit; you can catch me being awful at League of Legends and abandoning projects in Minecraft. I've got a SNES, Sega Dreamcast, and a Wii U at home as well that occasionally waste hours of my life.
Be sure to check out +1/-1 for my opinions about stuff!
The views and opinions expressed on this site are my own. They do not reflect the opinion of my employer, its clients, my clients, or the creators/maintainers of the products/projects listed.
If you take the ramblings of a twenty-something seriously and are actually offended by the views expressed, I'm sorry.