Hi, I’m Theo. I’m a late year undergrad student, studying computer science and cyber security.
Entering the world of tech, I originally wanted to just become a simple “programmer”. But it quickly became apparent to me that I didn’t like simple web development or app programming. As a result, I indulged myself in SysAdmin, DevOps, and the Cloud, and that lead me to where I am right now, getting myself a simple homelab to be able to create a blog where I can write to.
In my free time, I like to do a variety of things, like listen to podcasts, music, read books, play my guitar, play some games, and work out. But lately, I got myself a small homelab pc to play with, so that’s the backstory of this website.
My Backstory
Back in high school, one of my friends invited me to a Minecraft server he hosted over on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) he had rented. Before, I had only known of free public servers, or free server providers(they usually would just last a week before they inevitably become too laggy to play on). When I saw how well his server ran, I instantly wanted to know how he made it, since it was so cool to me back then. I asked him and he ended up teaching me a lot of things.
Learning from him, I tried renting my first VPS from the GitHub student developer pack, made a Minecraft server, a classic CS 1.6 server, Laravel project, and loads of other things. That was the start of me learning how to practically use Linux, Docker and Docker Compose, Cloud Computing, and using DNS services such as Cloudflare.
One of the classes from the 4th semester of my college recommended the class to join a cloud computing intensive bootcamp. This bootcamp practically catapulted me into DevOps since it gave me a free chance of attempting not one, but two AWS certifications. The first one being the foundational cloud practitioner certification, the second one being the solutions architect associate certification. After a few months of attending this intensive bootcamp, and spending many hours of studying to pass the certification tests, I managed to secure the certificates and add them to my portfolio.
Where am I now?
Back when I first started writing here, I was an intern as a DevOps Engineer, dealing with infrastructure, CI/CD, and and observability. But now, I find myself as a solution specialist, working with different products, but almost the same core focus. I’m no longer indulging myself in the infrastructure side professionally, but I deal with identity and access management, but still handle observability stuff. I’ll also add on some security related posts on here so stay tuned!