Chris

Two decades of making computers do useful things while everyone else makes slide decks. I burn through tokens like a boyscout with a flamethrower. I turn legacy nightmares into money-printing machines. I make cloud bills disappear like magic (it's called "reading the documentation"). I architect infrastructure that doesn't fall over when someone sneezes, unlike that Kubernetes cluster you cobbled together from Medium articles. ## What I actually do - Infrastructure: VMware to bare metal, Docker to K8s, on-prem to multi-cloud. I've built it, scaled it, and fixed it at 3 AM - Hybrid solutions: Not everything belongs in the cloud, Karen. I build systems that keep your mainframe talking to your microservices - Databases: SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL, OldSQL - I speak all dialects of data storage and know why your queries are slow - Cloud optimization: I speak all dialects of expensive (AWS, GCP, Azure) and make them cheap - Code: C to Python in whatever language gets the job done, because being a language zealot is for people who don't ship - AI: I lead AI-augmented engineering teams, implement spec-driven AI workflows, and build tooling that uses agents to solve real problems instead of demo problems ## Facts - 100+ OSS projects - 50+ VS Code extensions, PyPi Python Modules, and NPM Modules - Multiple books - Offer free web hosting for aspiring developers AI sits on the P&L, not payroll. For it to do anything useful, you have to burn tokens. The people who flinch at the spend don't understand they're looking at the cost of the work, not overhead. I run teams that treat that math as table stakes. I modernize without the religion. Your DOS app needs to talk to your cloud API? Done. Your on-prem Oracle needs to sync with your fancy new MongoDB? I've got you. Your legacy systems need to play nice with Kubernetes? That's Tuesday. Still reading? Good. Let's build something that works everywhere it needs to.