JL

Laying the foundation others build on.

I think in systems, but remember there are people inside them.

Architect-minded engineer based in Austin, TX. Fascinated by the intersection of technology, culture, and the constructs we create to make sense of both.

Currently Attaining

  1. 01

    AWS Solutions Architect Associate

    The foundation. Cloud architecture at a systems level — not just writing code, but understanding how it all fits together.

  2. 02

    AWS Solutions Architect Professional

    The step that puts you in a different tier. Harder, more nuanced, and commands the salary to match.

  3. 03

    Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

    Container orchestration at depth. The natural progression from Docker — architects need to understand how systems scale.

  4. 04

    Terraform Associate

    Infrastructure as code. The difference between someone who understands the cloud and someone who can build and automate it.

Projects

MSI GS65 motherboard connected to an ASUS router with an orange ethernet cable, running as a home server
Infrastructure · DevOps

Personal Home Server & Self-Hosted Infrastructure

Repurposed an MSI GS65 gaming laptop into an Ubuntu server running services like nginx and flask using Docker with a self-hosted deployment pipeline — serving this site from home.

Vintage Tektronix Type 453 oscilloscope on a wooden table displaying green waveforms
Hardware · Audio

Analog Oscilloscope / Music Visualizer

Feeding music frequencies into a vintage Tektronix Type 453 to display waveforms across two traces. Where signal processing meets something you can actually see.

From the blog

First post — in progress

On Perception, Objects, and What Machines Can't See

A look at how humans assign meaning to objects, and what that tells us about the fundamental limits of autonomous systems.

Read when it's ready