From 0810ca4137f367d54b1f0534d3e37366e42bcbb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Bowdre Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 09:46:59 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] more work on about page --- content/about.md | 24 +++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/about.md b/content/about.md index a90c490..674df45 100644 --- a/content/about.md +++ b/content/about.md @@ -1,21 +1,31 @@ +++ title = "Hi, I'm John." description = "A brief introduction to me, this blog, and what you're likely to see here." -aliases = ["tldr"] +aliases = ["tldr", "bio"] timeless = "true" comments = false +++ +You've (somehow) managed to stumble upon my dark corner of the internet[^1]. -You've (somehow) managed to stumble upon my dark corner on the internet.[^1] - -## Who am I? -I've always enjoyed writing code and solving problems, but I learned early in my career that I didn't want to be a full-time programmer. So I instead spent years as a system administrator, first with Windows and Linux servers and then a focus on virtualization. Along the way, I still flexed my coding muscles by writing scripts and tools to help me work more efficiently. +I'm currently a Cloud Platform Architect on a small Platform Engineering team within a very large corporation. Our team preaches the Good Word of *DevSecOps* and helps internal customers modernize the way they build, deploy, and ship products. I do a lot of work with -I'm a part of a small *Platforms Engineering* team inside a large corporation. We preach the Good Word of *DevSecOps* and help our internal customers modernize the way they build, deploy, and ship products. +By day, I manage a large virtualized environment, with a focus on leveraging cloud and automation technologies to make that task a bit easier. My big project from the past couple of years has been a VMware vRealize Automation implementation to streamline our server deployments, and I've been sharing some of what I've learned in that process here on Virtually Potato, primarily in the [vRA8 series of posts](/series/vra8). I don't have a strong development background (knowing just enough to be dangerous) so I do a lot of fumbling along the way, but I'm _generally_ make things work the way I want them to. And hopefully some of the notes I've made along the way might help someone else with their own projects! -[^1]: Congrats? +By night, I help out on Google's product support forums as a [Product Expert](https://productexperts.withgoogle.com/what-it-is), where I support Pixel phones, earbuds, and watches, as well as Chromebooks (primarily with Linux-related queries). Helping users troubleshoot their issues scratches my problem-solving itch, and it helps me learn more about the Google products I use. + +On weekends, I race my daily-driven 2014 Subaru BRZ in local [autocross events](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwzr4uKY-x-EwCv-rWNGefdikuW6Oy9O_) or wrench on my 1974 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia. + +And in the free time I have left, I game on my Steam Deck. + +See what I've been up to on: +- [GitHub](https://github.com/jbowdre) +- [CounterSocial](https://counter.social/@john_b) + +Securely chat with me via: +- [SimpleX Chat](/simplex/) +[^1]: Congrats? And also, *thank you.* \ No newline at end of file