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+ Jeff Smith
+$ unbiasedgeek +One who believes a bold, brutal truth is worth +more than a rose-colored half-truth.+
Site Reliability Engineer · Pleasant Grove, Utah
++ I've been working in IT since 1998, starting out as a system + administrator wrangling Windows NT 3.5 and Linux boxes before + either of them was particularly forgiving. I knew I'd end up + working with computers back in the third grade and never + seriously questioned it. Over the years the work has shifted + from racking servers and keeping them alive to writing the + code and infrastructure that does the keeping-alive for me -- + which is roughly how I ended up as a Site Reliability + Engineer. Off the clock I build self-hosted developer tools + and agentic AI systems, mostly in Go and Python, and run a + homelab built around a fleet of Dell enterprise servers, a + Cisco Nexus 10G switch, and a 10 Gbps symmetric residential + fiber connection -- which I'm slowly bringing under proper + infrastructure-as-code management. +
++ When I'm not at a keyboard you'll find me on a trail + somewhere, hunting raids in Pokemon Go (already planning for + GoFest 2026), or losing an evening to anything space-related + -- rockets, telescopes, the slow strange physics of it all. + I'm a lifelong video game collector across retro and modern, + console and PC, with a soft spot for city builders and + systems games like Factorio and Pokopia -- anything with a + satisfying loop and a spreadsheet hiding underneath. + Currently reading Thinking in Systems, and bouncing + between Helldivers 2 missions with my weekly game group and + Pokopia on the Switch 2. +
+What I'm working on
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- + harbormindGo + self-hosted, AI-agnostic chat with tree-based conversation hierarchy + +
- + luminosPythonClaude API + file system intelligence tool; agentic directory analysis via the Claude API + +
- + marchwardenPythonMCP + a network of agentic research specialists coordinated by a principal investigator agent + +
- + homelab-IaCTerraformAnsibleDocker + Terraform + Ansible bringing a fleet of surplus enterprise servers under management + +