$ what.am.i.doing.now
last updated May 2026
working on
- Leading Azure DevOps for Deloitte's Tax business on the iCMS team — CI/CD, IaC, DevSecOps for the tax preparation / compliance / accounting / filing software portfolio
learning
- Going deeper on Bicep — modules, parameter files, advanced loops, deployment stacks, reusable patterns
- Studying for AZ-400 (DevOps Engineer Expert) — natural next cert after AZ-900 and AI-900
- Getting deeper into cybersecurity fundamentals and how they intersect with my platform-engineering day job
reading
- Dune by Frank Herbert — finally getting around to it. The politics of fictional empires hit different after a few years in enterprise IT.
tinkering with
- Home lab — HP Elite Mini 600 G9 (i7-13700T, 96 GB RAM, 92 TB external storage) running Ubuntu Server with Docker containers for Plex, Immich, and Tailscale
- Custom-built router — pfSense on a Lenovo M720q with an Intel X540-T2 NIC. Suricata for IDS/IPS, pfBlockerNG for DNS- and IP-level blocking, WireGuard for VPN. Pulls a full gigabit symmetric link with everything running at line rate.
- LoRa radio + MeshCore — building out a long-range, low-power mesh network with no infrastructure. The radio side of "connectivity without dependencies" is its own rabbit hole and I'm enjoying every minute of it.
open to
- Senior or Staff DevOps / Platform Engineering roles, full-time or contract
- Conversations about Azure architecture, multi-cloud migration, DevSecOps, Suricata / pfBlockerNG tuning, or LoRa mesh networking
- Coffee (Nashville-area) or virtual chats — ryan@rlwilliamson.dev
not doing right now
- Twitter / X — using LinkedIn for professional posts instead
- Side-project sprawl — focusing on the AZ-400 path, deepening Bicep, and the mesh-network build this quarter