Writing
What I built, what broke, and what I learned
Write-ups on cloud infrastructure, my homelab, and the move from federal IT into cloud engineering. Each post covers a real system I run, including the parts that went wrong.
Designing a Hybrid Cloud Backup for a Homelab That Travels
My homelab moves with me from hotel to hotel, which means most of my data sits on one drive in one room. Here's my plan to pair it with AWS: encrypted offsite backups in S3 Glacier Deep Archive, least-privilege IAM, a cloud-side watchdog and Terraform for all of it.
Pi-Stack: A Homelab That Travels With Me
I live mostly out of hotels for work, so I built a small, encrypted, self-hosted homelab on a Raspberry Pi that comes with me from city to city. Why I built it, what it runs, how it shares the work with my laptop, how to build one, and what broke along the way.
Building a Cloud Portfolio: Why IaC Matters
How I used Terraform to provision every piece of AWS infrastructure for this site — and why that approach matters when applying for cloud engineering roles.