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AURORA · DRIFT
SEC_00 / SYSTEMS OPERATING 0000 DAYS
SYS Systems / Infrastructure / IT

I understand the stack
it runs on.

Two decades operating the full stack, hardware, networks, servers, security. Single-administrator enterprise infrastructure across four sites, console-launch hardware QA, retail-scale field diagnostics, and the discipline that lets one operator self-host a live game without a cloud bill. This is the literal proof under the hero line.

Futuristic data-center interior, rows of glowing server racks receding into depth, cyan network fiber lines forming an infrastructure topology
▸ Operating record
600+
Endpoints · 4 locations
org-wide remote · 99.8% uptime · solo
13+
Years · Sys Admin III · H&H
single administrator · AI-augmented
289
Best Buy sites · Geek Squad
diagnostics + signage at retail scale
2+ decades
On the full stack
Sony QA · 2002 to present
MikroTik
RouterOS · BGP · AirFiber RF
multi-VLAN fiber + point-to-point
AWS to self
Migration · zero downtime
eliminated recurring cloud spend
OWASP
Top-10 hardening
biometric ACL to zero-trust web
99.8%
Sustained uptime
13+ yrs · 24/7 support
▸ Lead piece · H&H Enterprises · 2013 to present · single-admin
Thirteen years, four sites, one administrator

Thirteen years, four sites, one administrator.

Sys Admin III at H&H Enterprises, single-handed across 4 sites, 600+ endpoints, organization-wide remote usage on 24/7 support at 99.8% uptime. Multi-VLAN MikroTik fiber with point-to-point AirFiber links between sites, biometric access control, cloud architecture. The operator who understands the stack does so because they have spent two decades inside it.

▸ The two-decade stack history
Network engineering, multi-site, MikroTik and RF▸ MikroTik · RF
Network engineering · multi-siteMikroTik · RF

MikroTik RouterOS · BGP · AirFiber RF

Hands-on RouterOS engineering, BGP routing, switching fabric, multi-VLAN segmentation, ACL policy. Point-to-point AirFiber links carrying inter-site traffic with line-of-sight RF planning. The kind of network that doesn't get redesigned because it's still working.

▸ diagnostics · scale
Geek Squad · 2005-2013diagnostics · scale

Best Buy, 8 yrs · 289 locations of digital signage

Eight years at the bench and in the field across the largest US consumer-electronics retail footprint. Hardware/software diagnostics at scale, customer ops, multi-store digital-signage rollout and maintenance. The volume school behind everything that came later.

▸ hardware QA · dev
Sony Electronics · 2002-2003hardware QA · dev

PlayStation 2 program, support to QA to development

Two years inside Sony Electronics on the PS2 console program, with documented three-stage progression: support services into QA testing into development. The earliest engineering exposure on the stack, earlier than most marketing profiles can claim.

▸ security · cumulative
Security discipline · cumulativesecurity · cumulative

From biometric ACL to OWASP Top-10

A decade of physical/network/personnel security operations at H&H carried up into modern web hardening, server-authoritative logic, IP validation, origin allowlists, secret-protected Redis. The threat model didn't start with web apps; it started with badge readers.

▸ Where the stack meets the AI operator
▸ AI-assisted support · publicly disclosed
Enterprise IT · 2013-presentAI-assisted support · publicly disclosed

600 endpoints · 4 sites · org-wide remote · solo · 99.8% uptime

600+ managed endpoints across four sites, counting all networked devices, plus organization-wide remote usage and the machines behind it.

Single-administrator infrastructure across multi-VLAN MikroTik fiber + AirFiber network. Self-funded AI tooling runs as a local support layer: assisted diagnostics, troubleshooting and fixes, email alerts, and system alerts. It does not manage endpoints or modify servers on its own. All infrastructure changes remain manual and operator-controlled, nothing autonomous touches production unattended. The value is force-multiplied support, not unsupervised automation.

Rift Wars 5x5 strategic board mid-game, the live game running through the migration▸ asset
Infrastructure migration · May 2026ops sovereignty

AWS to self-hosted · zero downtime on a live game

Moved Rift Wars off AWS to self-hosted infrastructure with zero downtime against live ranked matches. Server-authoritative model means the game state had to migrate cleanly, not a load-balancer flip. Eliminated recurring cloud spend, kept the players in their matches. The same stack discipline, applied to my own shipped product.

▸ Drill deeper · tenure dossier
▸ Tenure 002 · 13+ years
H&H Enterprises · SysAdmin III

The thirteen-year sole operator of 600+ endpoints / 4 sites / 99.8% uptime, MikroTik and AirFiber network engineering, local AI-assisted support tooling (assisted diagnostics + alerts, no autonomous control). The technical-discipline floor the marketing tenure rests on. Read the dossier · PDF →

The things I built on top of this stack live in /build. The AI agents I run on it live in /ai.