I'm a: 21+ Year Professional · Entrepreneur · Neurodivergent · Polyglot

STAFF COMPUTER ENGINEER DISTRIUBUTED SYSTEMS ARCHITECT

Programming Capabilities:

• 🥇 First: Go 👉🏻 Ruby on Rails 👉🏻 PHP
• 🥈 Second: Bash 👉🏻 JavaScript 👉🏻 Markdown
• 🥉 Third: TypeScript 👉🏻 Rust 👉🏻 Python
• Intermediate: C++ 👉🏻 C# 👉🏻 Perl 👉🏻 Groovy on Grails
• Honorary: CSS 👉🏻 HTML 👉🏻 ActionScript 👉🏻 AppleScript
• Exploratory: Swift 👉🏻 Objective-C 👉🏻 C
• + any other language with the participation of AI
• HINT: Expand this window for extensive capabilities breakdown...

Operating Systems:

• 🥇 macOS (MacOS 7 through macOS 26 — Since 1995 — Primary Workstation)
• 🥈 Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky, RedHat, and Fedora — Since 2005 — Primary Server OS)
• 🥉 Windows (Windows XP through Windows 11 — Since 2005 — Limited Exposure)

Database Technologies:

• 🥇 MongoDB (Since 2011 — Professionally used at Cisco, Oracle and Beamable)
• 🥈 PostgreSQL (Since 2022 — Professionally used at Cisco, Oracle and SurgePays)
• 🥉 MariaDB | MySQL (Since 2004 — Professionally engineered solutions since S&W Publishing)
• Redis (Since 2007 — Professionally engineered solutions since S&W Publishing)
• SQLite (Since 2008 — Professionally engineered solutions at Cisco)
• Hashicorp Vault (Since 2020 — Professionally engineered solutions at Oracle)

Automation Technologies:

• Terraform (Since 2017 — Engineered Multi-Million Dollar IaC + Code Reviewed OCI Provider + Developed Plugins)
• Ansible (Since 2012 — Orchestration technology I engineered at Cisco & WB Games)
• Chef (Since 2016 — Orchestration technology I engineered at Oracle)
• Puppet (Since 2012 — Orchestration technology I engineered at Cisco)
• AWS Cloud Formation (Since 2021 — Orchestration technology I engineered at WB Games)
• Shell Scripting (Since 2009 — Where existing tooling doesn't exist, shell scripting gets us over the finish line)
• Topobuilder (Since 2024 - Orchestrate a PHP Landing Site into Multi-Region Cluster)

Security Technologies:

• SELinux 👉🏻 RHEL, Cisco Linux, Oracle Linux, Rocky
  • Since 2014 I've been running sudo setenforce 1 on every host I manage.
• Networking 👉🏻 Cisco, Fortinet, Meraki, OpenVPN
  • Since 2009 I've been racking, stacking and configuring networking equipment for DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF & VPN.
• Firewalls 👉🏻 ufw, firewalld, iptables, Cisco Meraki, ASA, ModSecurity
  • Since 2009 I've been utilizing, managing, configuring and penetration testing firewalls for hardened cyber security.
• AntiVirus 👉🏻 Fortinet, McAfee, ClamAV
  • Since 2016 I've been building out and supporting online cloud platforms that utilize Windows and require anti-virus.
• Monitoring 👉🏻 Wazuh, DataDog, Sentry, Rollbar
  • Data backed decisions and rely on monitoring technology to give me observability into the binary itself.
• Secrets 👉🏻 AWS Secrets Manager, 1Password API, Keeper API, Hashicorp Vault
  • Obsessed with having a strong security posture and secrets management is a bane of every engineer's existence.
• Encryption 👉🏻 SSL Certificate Manager, SSH Keys, AES, GnuPG | PGP, ED25519
  • Encrypted output inside of a Secrets Manager and then recall that value. Security matters.
• Encoding 👉🏻 Base64, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, SHA-HMAC, GZ
  • When interacting with encrypted output, you need to encode that for transport. I am very well experienced here.

Business Processes:

• Compliance 👉🏻 PCI-DSS (2004-2026), FedRAMP (2017-2020), SOC2 (2022-2026), ISO 9001 (2009-2013)
  • Oversaw compliance efforts of multiple publicly traded companies.
• Certifications 👉🏻 Magento Certified Developer, Mirantis OpenStack Administrator
  • I do not put merit into certificate possession. I was required to become certified for Magento and OpenStack.
• Entity Structures 👉🏻 Startup Venture, LLC, PLLC, S-CORP, Trust, 501(c)3
  • I am an entrepreneur polyglot that is neurodivergent and a strong team player.

Cloud Platforms:

• 🥇 VMWare ESXi | vCenter | vSphere (Since 2011 — Building multiple OVH private clouds)
  • Companies that require privacy and control can get Private Clouds built, supported and expanded by me using this tech.
• 🥈 OCI (Since 2017) | AWS (Since 2013 — Involved in low level architectural discussions about platform)
  • At Oracle I oversaw the adoption of all production code. I have a deep understand these cloud systems inside and out.
• 🥉 OpenStack (Since 2014) | OVH (Since 2020 — Certified Administrator & Internationally Traveled)
  • Similar sales pitch as VMWare — you own your infrastructure and you're not leasing with neighbors.
• Strong: Bare Metal (Since 2005), DigitalOcean (Since 2017), Vultr (Since 2020), Azure (Since 2022)
  • Extensive work in these technologies and capable of confidently jumping into an pre-existing infrastructure to serve.
• Intermediate: GCP (Since 2025), Kubernetes (Since 2020), Docker Swarm (Since 2022)
  • Each of these technologies have been used, but not extensively and not for production.
• Proficient: Rancher (Since 2018), Firecracker (Since 2025), Podman (Since 2020)
  • These technologies have been evaluated by me, but not extensively and never in development of real products.

Cloud Technologies:

• Amazon Services 👉🏻 EC2, S3, IAM, EBS, FS, ECS, EKS
  • Extensively architected Infrastructure as Code for multiple companies that extensively utilize AWS exclusively.
• Debugging Services 👉🏻 Rollbar, Sentry, Graylog
  • Configured, integrated and deployed on-prem solutions for in-house debugging services for application observability.
• Observability 👉🏻 Grafana, Prometheus, Monit, Matomo, VictoriaMetrics
  • I was the first to fix Perforce's p4prometheus Windows support for Helix Core observability during my days at WB Games.
• Large Assets 👉🏻 Artifactory, MinIO, Perforce Helix Core, Git LFS
  • Managed company assets over 777 TB in size that is worth billions. I've orchestrated solutions, scaled them and supported them.
• SaaS On-Prem 👉🏻 OpenProject, Mattermost, GitLab, Gitea, Jenkins, SonarQube, Taiga, Gerrit
  • Owning your data by running private on-prem SaaS solutions is one of my specialty services.
• Active Service Providers: DigitalOcean, OVH, AWS, Vultr
  • I have dozens of resources currently under lease at these providers.

Speech Capabilities:

Rank	Language	Level
🥇	Romanian	Non Verbal Development Access from age 7-843 days old
🥈	English	Native Fluent after adoption at 843 days old
🥉	German	Family Conversationalist since 2009
4th	French	Non-functional from 7 Years from Public School

Technology Capabilities: Web Design, Backend Systems, Disaster Recovery, Release Management,iOS App Developer, Big Data Analyst, Site Reliability, Documentation, Communication, Process, AI MCP, AI RAG, Unreal Engine, Database Admin, Perforce Helix Core, Docker, SELinux, TCP/IP, Networking, TeamCity, IaC, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab Management, Gitea Administration, SVN, Network Attached Storage (NAS), QNAP, S3, ClickHouse, OTEL, DataDog APM, Grafana, Telemetry, Analytics Collection, Analytics Analysis, Pentaho, Data Warehouse, OSINT, Open Source Intelligence, Internet Intelligence, Email Delivery, DNS, BGP, DHCP, WAN, LAN, TCP/IP

I joined GitHub as user 91,485 in 2009. I've been around for a while. It's that simple and I won't bite.

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