Hi, I’m Derrick 👋

For 18+ years I’ve brought order to complex infrastructure — across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud. Most recently I led a full datacenter-to-AWS transformation: auditing an undocumented 100+ VM environment, re-architecting it around native services, and exiting the datacenter entirely. Along the way I shipped production releases to EKS alongside our DevOps team and managed endpoints for a fully remote company.

Now I’m going deeper on the DevOps side — CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code — and I build with AI as a working partner: it drafts, I architect, review, and own what ships. This site is where I write up what I’m building, in the homelab and beyond.