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Projects
Open source, governance, and the businesses I run — current work and where I've been.
Shrug PW Consulting
Founder & Principal Consultant
Infrastructure architecture, automation, and technical advisory for mission-driven orgs — reliable systems on real budgets.
shrug.host
Founder
Human-scale hosting for small organizations and open source projects. Reliable infrastructure without the enterprise complexity.
swamp.club
OG Swamper
Early member of the swamp.club community (formerly System Initiative) — model-based infrastructure automation, from back when it was still finding its shape.
RDO / CentOS Cloud SIG
PTL
Leading RDO's transition into the CentOS Cloud SIG — steering where RDO's OpenStack packaging lives and how it ships.
OpenStack-Ansible
Core reviewer
Reviewing patches and keeping the deployment automation honest for running OpenStack on enterprise Linux.
Fedora Project
Contributor · RISC-V SIG, CommOps
Packaging, build systems, and community tooling — with a standing effort to get more of Fedora booting on RISC-V.
OpenELA
Technical Steering Committee
Governance for a vendor-neutral source of enterprise Linux — supply-chain transparency, less drama.
ResolveX
Board member & technical advisor
Infrastructure and scaling advice for a team building software for crisis call centers — 988 and mental-health lines.
Amateur Radio & Emergency Comms
RACES / ARES · CERT
Volunteer emergency communications — RACES/ARES nets, public-service events, and CERT. When the internet's down, the radio still works.
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I take on a couple of engagements at a time — a migration, a network done right, infrastructure that needs untangling.
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Rocky Linux
Infrastructure architect · core team · through 2026
Built and ran everything from bare metal to cloud — CI/CD, build systems, supply-chain security — and worked with Release Engineering on next-generation build automation.
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
Board member · through 2026
Governance, financial oversight, and mission for the non-profit behind Rocky Linux.