Opened the year in Panama City Beach with salt air, clear focus, and notebook pages full of fresh plans. It was equal parts reset and runway.
- Travel adventure with purpose
- Big-picture thinking away from the noise
- Energy reset before major project push
Late February switched from planning to execution mode.
- New engagement, fast alignment, quick momentum
- Strong collaboration rhythm from day one
- Practical wins that set the tone early
March was all about defining migration direction from Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID.
- Clarified naming and identity transition impacts
- Mapped policy and access changes with intent
- Focused on stability, not just surface-level renaming
This was strategy work, not checkbox work.
2026 is also the year of setting project frameworks at a higher altitude.
- Better framing before build starts
- Repeatable patterns over heroics
- Consistency that scales across teams
Translation: fewer surprises, cleaner delivery, better outcomes.
Reconnected with a few Detroit roots this year, and that has been a serious boost. Old-school wisdom plus current-era tech perspective is a strong combo.
It brought grit, clarity, and a little Motor City edge back into the workflow.
const devOpsBob = {
// A wink to "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" - but this time, memory points matter.
currentFocus: "Who's Memory (for AI) Is It Anyway?",
onHold: "Home DNS refresher after RPI-Image-Gen updates",
learning: "Boundary management for securing data in an everyone's-got-an-AI-bot environment",
seeking: "Engaging collaborations to coding challenges",
needsHelp: "Work pipeline development for humans in the tech business",
};�️ Ask me about:
- ⚛️ ReactJS wizardry
- 🟢 NodeJS adventures
- ☁️ Azure cloud deployments
- ⚙️ DevOps best practices
- 🏠 Home lab setups
📬 Reach out: devopsbob | 🏷️ Pronouns: Mr./He/Him
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🎓 Eternal Student: 30 years in tech and still excited about every new framework, language, and paradigm shift
🏡 Home Lab Enthusiast: Because why rent cloud when you can build your own datacenter in the garage?
