Hey, I'm Nick 👋

I'm a Specialist Solutions Architect atRed Hat, focused on theAnsible Automation Platform. I help teams figure out how to automate the stuff they've been doing by hand for too long.

Outside of work, I make YouTube videosabout automation, DevOps, and networking, mostly from the perspective of someone who actually deploys this stuff, not just talks about it.

I run an extensive homelab that's equal parts production infrastructure and playground. If it can be self-hosted, I've probably tried it. DNS, media, monitoring, CI/CD, the whole stack. It's the best way to learn: break things at home so you don't break them at work.

My go-to languages are TypeScript,Go, andmodern PHP. I genuinely love building software, not just the finished product, but the process of making messy ideas into clean, running systems.