Hey, I’m Anthony — a Cloud Engineering leader based in Ohio with 15+ years of experience keeping enterprise technology humming across some pretty complex environments.
My official title is Sr. Manager of Cloud Operations & Engineering, but the honest description is that I lead the catch-all team. We’re officially called cloud engineering, but in practice we cover cloud platforms, DevOps, systems infrastructure, VDI, identity, and everything in between. The job, in short, is keeping the clouds from raining.
Field Notes
This site is where I write about things I’m genuinely curious about. Not always cloud. Not always AI. Just tech I’m exploring, tools I’m tinkering with, and ideas I want to think through out loud.
If something ends up in a Field Notes post, it’s because I found it interesting enough to dig in and share — whether that’s a deep dive on LLM gateways, a lab I built on my Mac over a weekend, or an Azure architecture pattern that solved a real problem.
No agenda. No sponsored content. Just field notes from the work.
Background
I’ve been in IT long enough to have racked servers, managed help desks, engineered endpoints at scale, and eventually landed in cloud architecture and engineering leadership. The through-line has always been the same: figure out how things actually work, and make them work better.
Before cloud was cloud, I cut my teeth managing large-scale endpoint environments, building VDI platforms, and automating everything I could get my hands on with PowerShell. These days the problems are bigger and the blast radius is wider, but the approach is the same.
I also carry a US Army background — trained as a 25Q, which is where I first learned that good systems and clear communication are the same problem wearing different clothes.
Outside the Terminal
Family man first. I’ve got a great wife, kids, and a couple of dogs who have strong opinions about when it’s time to stop working. When I’m not in front of a screen I’m usually somewhere outdoors, or dragging the family through Disney or Universal for the dozenth time and somehow still enjoying it.
Let’s Connect
If something I wrote was useful, sparked a question, or you just want to trade notes on something in the field — I’m always happy to connect.