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 title = "Hi, I'm John."
 description = "A brief introduction to me, this blog, and what you're likely to see here."
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+aliases = ["tldr", "bio"]
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+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]
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-## 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.
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+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.
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+And in the free time I have left, I game on my Steam Deck.
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+See what I've been up to on:
+- [GitHub](https://github.com/jbowdre)
+- [CounterSocial](https://counter.social/@john_b)
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+Securely chat with me via:
+- [SimpleX Chat](/simplex/)
 
 
+[^1]: Congrats? And also, *thank you.*