I build and operate the kind of infrastructure that keeps things running when nobody's looking — Linux systems, networks, game-hosting platforms, monitoring stacks, and a fair amount of backend code holding it all together. I work across the stack from physical hardware and networking up through the application layer, and I'm happiest when an automated system makes a process I used to do manually disappear entirely.

• Senior IT Consultant @ Stevesworld — Linux administration, networking, monitoring, and client-facing technical support across the Atlanta metro. Day-to-day ranges from server build-outs and edge networking through user-facing escalations and documentation.
• L3 Escalation @ LiftUp Hosting — Hypervisor and network operations for a game-hosting provider. ASN and IP-reputation work, abuse handling, blocklist and Spamhaus management, and the kind of edge tuning that nobody notices until it stops happening.
• Independent consulting — Small practice focused on infrastructure, automation, and self-hosting for clients who need things to just work. Long-running engagements over one-off jobs.

• Linux infrastructure — host build-outs, hardening, observability, and the boring-but-critical reliability work that makes everything else possible.
• Game hosting & community platforms — multi-tenant infra for Minecraft, FiveM, and adjacent ecosystems, plus the operational side: abuse response, reputation, capacity planning.
• Automation & tooling — Ansible-driven deployments, custom daemons for orchestration, and replacing tribal knowledge with reproducible pipelines.
• Self-hosted ecosystems — monitoring, media, identity, and the rest of the stack most people rent from someone else.
• Backend & full-stack development — internal tooling, dashboards, and APIs that glue infrastructure to the humans using it.

Infrastructure · Linux · Docker · Proxmox · Nginx · Ansible · Grafana · Prometheus
Backend · Go · Node.js · Python · Java 17 · TypeScript
Web · Next.js · React · Express · Tailwind
Data · PostgreSQL · MariaDB · MongoDB · Redis
Game infra · Spigot · Velocity · FiveM
Ops & tooling · Git · Coolify · Cloudflare · systemd

Licensed amateur radio operator and ARES volunteer focused on emergency communications in north Georgia. Also currently employed on the side working on arcade games and cabinets — turns out the same diagnostic mindset works on a coin-op as it does on a misbehaving Linux box. Outside of work I run an active homelab and dabble in 3D modeling and game modding.

• Email — jacob@managing.systems
• Discord — @biometrical