$ whoami

Hello :wave:!

I'm nick reese {rsty}. I design, deploy, and optimize highly available distributed systems; my background is in site reliability, observability, platform, infrastructure, devops, devex, security, and networking disciplines of engineering

I fall heavy on the scale of simplicity whenever feasible

Passionate about most things FOSS and have been using Unix, Linux, Other (looking at you Glenda) systems for over 20 years

I enjoy breaking, hacking, tinkering things to better understand them; I enter rabbit holes and never come out, I live in rabbit holes, I am a rabbit

Amateur philosopher

On a perpetual quest to become closer to nature, along with practicing yoga / meditation, to keep myself sane with age

Tech philias

• Coding
• Infrastructure
• Operating Systems
• Databases
• Electronics / Hacking
• Vintage / Pseudo-vintage computing
• Demoscene

Other philias

• Tea <3
• Reading
• Frisbee
• Mathematics
• Microbiology
• Worms, insects, mollusks
• Permaculture
• Philosophy

Social media

• Github
• Twitter
• LinkedIn