About
Boring is the goal.
Heroic recoveries make great stories but terrible operations. I design for Monday mornings, not war rooms.
Who I Am
I'm Matthias — a senior infrastructure engineer based in Arizona with 15+ years in healthcare IT, hybrid environments, and the kind of systems that break at 3 AM on a holiday weekend.
I started in the '90s, crawling under desks to wire 10Base-T in a university lab and learning to install operating systems from floppy disk chains. I've since built and stabilized environments for medical groups, manufacturers, professional services firms, and multi-site operations.
I'm not a managed services provider. I don't sell hardware or maintain helpdesks. I take on scoped projects — stabilization, migration, recovery architecture — and hand everything back to your team with documentation they can actually use. 90% of my engagements end with a clean handoff, not a retainer.
If your infrastructure feels fragile, undocumented, or held together by one person's memory — that's exactly the kind of problem I solve.
Principles
Automation earns its keep
Every script should eliminate more work than it creates. If it needs babysitting, it's not automation.
Security is a baseline, not a project
Hardening shouldn't require a dedicated initiative. It should be how things are built from the start.
Documentation is a deliverable
If the person who built it leaves and the system breaks, the system was never really finished.
Knowledge transfer over dependency
The goal is a team that doesn't need me after I leave. If you're still calling me six months later, I didn't do my job.
Environments
- —Healthcare groups and specialty practices (HIPAA)
- —Manufacturing and distribution
- —Professional services and law firms
- —Multi-site retail and franchise operations
- —Nonprofit and education
Tooling
- —VMware vSphere
- —Azure (networking, identity, landing zones)
- —Linux (Ubuntu, Rocky)
- —Python + PowerShell automation
- —Veeam backup + recovery architecture
- —Monitoring, alerting, and drift detection
- —Active Directory + identity management
- —Network architecture + security hardening
Logistics
Remote-first
with on-site availability for cutovers.
NDA-friendly
and enterprise procurement ready.
Fixed-fee assessments
know the cost before you commit.
US-based
available across major time zones.