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Infrastructure engineer building AI-powered tools and automation.

25 years running enterprise infrastructure, now building agentic AI workflows, platforms and automation hands-on with Claude Code.

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25 yearsrunning enterprise infrastructure
20+vendor systems brought into one data store
~40%lower LLM cost per interaction
Featured project

HAHBAH Homelab

A home platform that looks like a subway map: portal, single sign-on, monitoring and pull-based deploys, all self-hosted. Open source, as a template to learn from.

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More projects

Smaller tools and experiments from my GitHub, built and run hands-on, mostly with Claude Code.

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IdeaOnward

Self-hosted continuous-improvement platform for teams: Sparks, Five Whys, voting and badges. MIT licensed.

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RePlexOn

Plex backup and monitoring dashboard with NAS mirrors, snapshots, size charts and email alerts. No npm needed.

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$ claude > opus-5 | subagents: 3 > recap: built portal login > run breakdown: 4m 12s

Claude Code Mods

Small mods for Claude Code: a status line and prompt bands for subagent models, session recaps and run breakdowns.

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# CLAUDE.md - delegate bulk reads - keep a TASKS.md - one worktree per session

Claude Code Tips

Practical shortcuts, configs and workflows I use every day with Claude Code.

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Hippo Heist

A browser arcade game: a hippo steals bananas for a hungry leopard. Pure vanilla JS, Canvas and synthesized audio. Playable now.

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Featured project

Third Shift

A showcase of an in-house IT operations platform: one place that pulls data from 20+ tools, correlates alerts every few minutes, dispatches the on-call and delivers a roll call report at 7:00 AM. Everything shown is invented sample data.

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A bit about me

I have spent 25 years keeping enterprise infrastructure running. Now I am using AI to make it smarter: connecting systems, automating the repetitive work and turning scattered data into decisions.

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LONE HERDGather it. Connect it. Move it.

IT problems are hard when the evidence is scattered. I use AI to gather data from different sources and correlate it, which has made troubleshooting much faster. Lone Herd is where I share how.

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