Hey, I’m Anthony. I lead cloud engineering and operations for a large healthcare org, and I’ve spent 15+ years figuring out how technology works and how to make it work better.
I love what I do, and every so often I think about young me taking that first leap into IT and want to give him a pat on the back. It worked out.
Field Notes
This site exists because I like building things, and I learn better when I have to write it down.
Most of what ends up here started as a weekend project or a question I couldn’t stop poking at. A local LLM gateway running on my Mac. An MCP server I wired up to see if I could. An Azure pattern that finally solved something annoying at work. If it was interesting enough to dig into, it’s interesting enough to write up.
A lot of it is built to run cheap or free on hardware I already own. Half the fun is seeing how far you can get without a cloud bill.
Background
I started in the Army as a 25Q, which is a fancy way of saying I kept communications gear working when it really mattered. That’s where I got hooked on making complicated systems behave.
From there it was the usual climb. Help desk, endpoints, VDI, a lot of PowerShell to avoid doing the same thing twice, and eventually cloud architecture and the engineering leadership I do now. The tools keep changing and the stakes keep getting higher, but the part I enjoy is the same as it was on day one: take something tangled, learn how it really works, and leave it better than I found it.
Outside the Terminal
Family comes first. Wife, kids, and a couple of dogs who make it clear when the workday should be over. When I’m not at a screen I’m usually outside, digging through a crate of records, or back at Disney or Universal with the family for the umpteenth time.
Let’s Connect
If something here was useful or you want to compare notes, reach out.