hobbies
Road Trip!
Eating every meal at the Waffle House, when there’s one nearby
Taking No for an answer
Full Coffee Cup on Moving-Sidewalk Handrail
Big Minimalism
Time Dilation (playing Borderlands 2)
What's up with the name Build Maestro..
I don’t mean to sound pretentious with the name “Build Maestro”, this was just a lighthearted nickname given to me during my time at Seagull Scientific as Release Engineer for the company. It just so happened I needed a name for a blog at the time, and this fit the bill!
What brought me here
It was this same passion that brought me to what I consider the center of it all. The Bay Area. I read the Steve Jobs biography and was inspired to be where I feel the action is. Even though I had a full time offer from Expedia, I decided I'd follow my dreams.
the early years
Discovering my calling
Not just some warm body sitting at a desk collecting a paycheck. No, this is a passion of mine. Computers and specifically automation has always been a hobby of mine since a young age. Here's me pictured in the late 80s on the family 8088 with a 1200 baud modem. I loved calling into BBS's to trade files and play door games and chat, heck years later I'd actually be a SysOp running my own BBS. It's this same passion for computers that allowed me to become a Unix System Administrator while attending highschool and be able to have fun with IBM RS/6000 and Sun Solaris servers. Hearing the hum of the servers, buzzing of the fluorescent ballasts, and the clicking of the keyboards made me realize: I've found my calling.