Hi. I'm Kyle.

Over the years, I've worked on a lot of super awesome and impactful projects. But you won't find any of my best work on GitHub - that's by design. Let's just say: I contribute where it counts.

I built this site as the next iteration of my personal website. I previously had a website here. It was built from vanilla JS and it was a royal pain to build and maintain. In this next iteration, I wanted to have something that was equally powerful, with the flexibility of doing everything I wanted, but without being a burden to program and maintain. I built this site using Astro, Tailwind CSS, and a few other tools. It's version controlled on GitHub, and deployed to Cloudflare Pages, and available at my personal domain.
This design is a modern reimaginging of another site design that I really like.

This site was designed and built in the Golden Heart of the 49th State, United States of America. Easily the most beautiful state in the US, and probably the world. Currently, I'm working for the Wilson Alaska Technical Center as a Network Engineer/Cybersecurity Analyst/System Administrator/Programmer/Site Reliability Engineer/DevOps Engineer/IT Guy. I wear a lot of different hats, both literally and figuratively. I love my job, and I love the people I work with. While working with WATC I have had the unique opportunity to travel to some of the most remote places on the planet, from Wake Island, to Antarctica. I am currently working with some of the most brilliant minds in the Geophysical field. And yes, if you read about the work that WATC does and think to yourself "Wait, your mission is WHAT?" Yes. Yes it is.

I have always been drawn to anything that runs on electricity, from speakers to servers. My journey started young, diving into audio/visual engineering for live productions and later broadcast production. I served as the Editor-in-Chief of my school newspaper and the Broadcast Operations Director for our local TV program. Under my leadership, the newspaper launched its first online edition, and the TV team pulled off its first ever live broadcast - both feats that I'm quite proud of. And all that before I turned 17.
Chasing bigger challenges, I moved to Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO to pusue a degree in Computer Science. While powering through my undergrad (and graduating in just 3 years!), I worked for Engineering Technology Services, providing IT support to faculty, staff, and students. Somewhere in between classes and tech calls, I learned the dark arts of Windows System Administration, diving into Windows Server, Active Directory, WSUS, MDT & SCCM, and modernized our dusty Group Policy setup. Bye-bye, XP-era policies - hello Windows 10 & Server 2022.
After graduating from CSU with a Bachelors of Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics, I kicked off my next adventure as a Seismo-Acoustic Network Security Technician for the Wilson Alaska Technical Center. Although perhaps a more appropriate job title would be "IT Operations Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer/System Administrator/Cybersecurity Analyst/Programmer". Somewhere in there, good ol' end-user support fits in as well. If it beeps or squeaks, I probably fixed it. But the coolest part? I've been sent to some of the most remote and wild corners of the planet - places most people only see in documentaries. I've worked on Wake Island, where the sunsets are almost as stunning as the wasp stings. I've also been down to the coldest and harshest continent on the planet - Antarctica. I slept in a tent on the Ross Ice Shelf, dug holes, snow machined around, and generally enjoyed the 24-hours of sunlight and -50 degree temperatures.