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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.

shrug.games

Founder

Game server hosting that just works. Built with Taylor and Lexi.

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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Your project here?

I take on a couple of engagements at a time — a migration, a network done right, infrastructure that needs untangling.

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.