I’m a Principal Engineer working on platform infrastructure with things like Ansible, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux.

The image above is my avatar for most things online. My oldest son drew this a few years back.

I haven’t always been a geek.

Ok, maybe I have. A geek though the years.

And I still like the Saturn V.

I did some fishing as a kid.

And took creative writing classes in high school.

I was really cool my senior year.

My first computer was an Apple II. I programmed my own 2D CAD system that used a joystick for input.

I spent summers during college as a cave guide.

I have a thing for rocks and studied Geology.

I moved to California after college and worked for a few years as an environmental geologist.

But I switched to technology and have been at it since 1990.

I traveled Europe in the early 90’s.

And did a lot of hiking and mountain climbing in the Sierra Nevada.

I’ve done some off-roading, too.

I even had a few motorcycles.

And a few RV’s, too.

Sometimes I even work from my current RV.

I have a thing for trains.

And photography.

I met my wife in 2007.

We married a year later.

And I suddenly found myself with three kids.

Our oldest got married in Oregon a few years back.

Nowadays we live on our farm in rural Missouri.