I’m Derek — software engineer, infrastructure nerd, and chronic tinkerer. 10+ years building production systems, automation, and the kind of infrastructure that has to work at 3am whether I’m awake or not. From deploying hardware across 130 locations to running local LLMs on dual 3090s — I work every layer of the stack. When I’m not building mission-critical systems at my day job, I’m self-hosting AI inference clusters, wiring up agentic workflows, 3D printing things my wife didn’t ask for, and writing about all of it here. Topics range from code to infrastructure, AI, and whatever I broke this week.