A little about me
I'm a Senior Systems Administrator based in Ottawa, Ontario, with over two decades of hands-on experience keeping Linux infrastructure running — cleanly, reliably, and without drama. My work lives in the space between hardware and software: provisioning servers, hardening systems, automating workflows, and generally making sure the machines do what they're supposed to do.
By day I support a medical company out of Montreal. Outside of that, I run a small self-hosted lab environment where I explore automation, AI tooling, and content infrastructure — because some people have hobbies, and mine happen to involve servers.
"It takes years to gain the trust of a client. It takes only seconds to lose it."
I've been hosting things for people since the early 2000s — long before "the cloud" was a selling point — and that era shaped how I think about reliability, ownership, and the value of actually knowing your infrastructure. These days I work by referral, keeping things small and the quality high.
I sit in the micro-generation between Gen X and Millennials — old enough to have had a fully analog childhood, young enough to have embraced the digital world without hesitation. We grew up playing outdoors, watching TV with a handful of channels, and calling friends on landlines. Pagers, not smartphones, were the height of teenage communication.
That upbringing gives Xennials a somewhat unusual lens: we carry the independence and healthy skepticism of Gen X, while sharing the tech optimism and adaptability more commonly associated with Millennials. We remember what life was like before the internet — and we also remember the exact moment it changed everything.
That balance shapes how I approach technology. I don't fetishize it, but I'm not afraid of it either. Tools exist to solve problems. If they do that well, great. If not, you build something better.
Outside of the terminal, I'm an amateur photographer — a passion passed down from my late father, who was a professional photographer. He taught his sons everything he knew, and we grew up with an actual darkroom in the basement, long before DSLRs were commercially viable. There's something about the patience and craft of analog photography that still informs how I see a frame today.
When the weather permits, you'll find me on two wheels. Riding a motorcycle has a way of clearing the head that nothing else quite replicates.
Things I've built
A self-hosted, fully automated tech and AI news website. Content is discovered, synthesised from multiple sources, and published through a custom automation pipeline — with distinct writer personas giving each article a consistent editorial voice. Built entirely on open-source tooling and self-managed infrastructure.
A personal web hosting and server administration service operating since 2013. Small by design — referral-only — with a focus on reliability, personal support, and genuine knowledge of the stack. LAMP/LEMP, email, backups, security hardening.
The infrastructure
A mix of bare metal and virtualised nodes — running Ubuntu, Debian, and Proxmox VE. The fleet handles AI workloads, media, Docker services, and development environments, all connected over a private overlay network.