At 20, I founded FIXSMARTLY, an IT services company where I handled everything — product, tech, ops, hiring, support. That taught me to obsess over systems that run without babysitting. That obsession led me into DevOps. Over the next 5 years at vCreaTek Consulting, I went from DevOps Engineer to Team Lead to Architect. Along the way I: →Led the design of an in-house Kubernetes platform that eliminated $3-5K/month in recurring Azure hosting costs → Standardized CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code patterns now used across 6+ teams → Cut incident detection time by 40-60% through better observability → Mentored engineers into expanded roles and responsibilities I'm AWS Certified and currently expanding into MLOps — making ML systems observable and production-ready on Kubernetes. I mentor because teaching keeps me honest about fundamentals. Book time with me if you want to talk through a real Kubernetes or CI/CD problem, plan a move from engineer to architect, or prep for a platform engineering interview. I reply to everyone.