Automation

Site Reliability Engineer My internship at Nord Security was a game-changer. I got to work on their massive global infrastructure - we’re talking over 5,000 servers worldwide! As part of the SRE team, I spent my days building Django web apps for their production and QA environments, keeping critical services running smoothly, and wrestling with Docker containers until they behaved. The highlight was definitely automating all the repetitive server tasks with Bash scripts and building out solid backup systems for their SQL databases. It was stressful at times (infrastructure at this scale is no joke), but incredibly rewarding to see everything running like clockwork. This experience really opened my eyes to how enterprise-level DevOps actually works in the real world. ...

Electrical Engineer Working at H.B. Taylor Co. was where I really dove into the world of industrial automation. I spent most of my time programming Automation Direct PLC controllers - those things are fascinating because they’re basically tiny computers that control massive manufacturing machines. I’d write the logic that tells conveyor belts when to start/stop, monitors sensors, and basically automates all the repetitive stuff that used to require someone standing there pushing buttons all day. ...

Freelance Developer & Systems Administrator Being self-employed as a developer and sysadmin has been a wild ride. I’ve taught myself everything through trial and error, late nights debugging, and plenty of “what the heck is going on here” moments. My home server setup is basically my digital playground - running on Arch Linux with some Ubuntu bits, it’s hosting Minecraft servers that people play on from all over the world, plus a bunch of other services I’ve tinkered with. ...

Last updated: August 2025 When I first started hosting Minecraft at home, I wanted three things: performance that felt local, the convenience of one‑click updates, and zero exposure of my home IP. This post walks through how I pieced that together—Docker for isolation, Discord bots for control, and a WireGuard+VPS hop so the world never sees where I live. Any infrastructure details below (like ports/domains) are examples, not my actual values. ...