About

I've spent over 35 years in IT doing almost everything there is to do — engineer, architect, team lead, trainer, manager, executive, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. I've worked for international consultancies, pre-IPO startups, and even ran my own shop a couple of times.

I've shipped code, led teams, written books, and stood on stages in front of thousands of developers all over the world.

Right now I'm a Senior Architect working in R&D for a Really Big Company, where I get to do what I love most — dig into hard problems and figure out what's actually true versus what's just noise. And I teach others how to do the same.

I've been around long enough to watch "transformative technologies" come and go. I know the difference between genuine signal and expensive marketing.

Containers? Real.
Rust? Real.
Knowledge Management? Ask me sometime — I'll buy the drinks. (We'll be very drunk by the end.)

AI is real. And it's the most interesting moment of my career.

I'm not here to tell you AI is going to save the world or end it. I'm here to work the problem — with 35 years of scar tissue guiding the way.

That's what this blog is about.

The Name

"Elder IT Geek" isn't self-deprecation. It's a category. If you've been in this industry long enough to remember when "the cloud" was just a PowerPoint slide with a fluffy shape on it, you're one of us.

We've got context. We've got pattern recognition. We've got scar tissue.

Those things matter. Especially now.