Infrastructure, automation, web platforms, and operating discipline for small organizations that need technology to feel less fragile and more useful.
evan@systems:~$ ls capabilities
The work is not just code. It is the whole loop: design the system, ship the tool, monitor the edges, document the handoff, and keep improving after launch.
Linux, DNS, reverse proxies, TLS, backups, Proxmox lanes, identity, and practical observability.
Automation, internal dashboards, integration glue, and workflows that turn scattered operations into reliable routines.
Fast sites, useful apps, clear content, and owner-friendly maintenance paths.
Systems built for local organizations, care work, nonprofits, and real-world constraints.
Budget-aware planning, triage, documentation, delegation, and the calm habit of making messy processes legible.
Private-first architecture, least-open exposure, evidence before confidence, and rollback paths before risky moves.
evan@work:~$ cat experience.log
A mixed background across care operations, media, freelance development, and systems work gives the technical decisions a grounded center.
MDSCAA, 2025 to present. Applied systems thinking to human workflows, compliance-heavy processes, budgeting, delegation, and practical operational improvement.
906.sh, 2025 to present. Building right-sized IT foundations for small businesses and nonprofits through infrastructure, identity, automation, backups, and clear documentation.
Freelance and remote work across web development, hosting, sales, marketing, and cross-functional delivery. The through-line is practical output over theater.
Daily Press, September 2022 to September 2023. Worked across front desk, inside sales, accounting, editorial, and sportswriting while adjusting responsibilities around family caretaking.
November 2016 to December 2019. Built websites and small-business IT stacks, helping a client scale from four figures to six figures per month through web development and marketing execution.
2016 to 2018. Supported web design, app development, sales, and marketing across multiple divisions and international markets.
Game modding in 2006 was the entry point: breaking and rebuilding systems, learning by doing, and developing the obsession with how things work under the hood.
A long stretch of caregiving clarified the values behind the technical work. In technology, uptime and reliability can sound abstract. In real life, they carry human weight.
evan@stack:~$ inspect loadout
Game modding started the obsession: break the system, learn the rules, rebuild it cleaner. The current version is more professional, but the loop is the same.
Web hosting and Linux fundamentals since 2008, self-hosted resilience since 2012, and current Proxmox, backup, identity, and edge operations.
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Laravel, WordPress, app development, automation scripts, dashboards, internal tools, and practical full-stack delivery.
Reliable over clever. Document everything. Automate after stability. Build processes and handoffs that survive contact with reality.
Technology grounded in Delta County, small organizations, nonprofits, care work, and local usefulness through 906.sh and community-scale platforms.
Reliable over clever. Written over remembered. Automated after stable. Built for real humans, because uptime carries human weight.
evan@contact:~$ open channel
Based in Escanaba, Michigan. Open to local projects, remote contracts, and conversations around infrastructure, automation, community technology, and resilient small-organization operations.