Hey, I'm Nick.

I'm a Specialist Solutions Architect at Red Hat, focused on the Ansible Automation Platform. I help teams figure out how to automate the stuff they've been doing by hand for too long.

Outside of work, I make YouTube videos about automation, DevOps, and networking, mostly from the perspective of someone who actually deploys this stuff, not just talks about it.

I run an extensive homelab that's equal parts production infrastructure and playground. If it can be self-hosted, I've probably tried it. DNS, media, monitoring, CI/CD, the whole stack. It's the best way to learn: break things at home so you don't break them at work.

My go-to languages are TypeScript, Go, and modern PHP. I genuinely love building software, not just the finished product, but the process of making messy ideas into clean, running systems.