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tip@trylinux:~$ cat /home/tip/README.md
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tip@trylinux:~$ whoami

Lead Full Stack Cloud Engineer at Flexion Inc.

30+ years wrestling with Linux, building data pipelines, and making cloud infrastructure behave.

Currently deep in: AWS, Python, Terraform, and helping CMS process Medicare data at scale.

tip@trylinux:~$ ps aux | grep current
PID 2019 - Building ETL pipelines for Medicare beneficiary data
PID 2023 - Migrating from Vertica to Redshift (cost savings: 70%)
PID 2024 - Implementing EventBridge omnichannel architecture
PID 2025 - Learning: Rust, WebAssembly, and why AI won't replace us (yet)
tip@trylinux:~$ git log --oneline -n 8
f3d4a2b Designed AWS Eventbridge architecture for CMS event distribution
8e9c1f7 Led migration from EC2/ECS to Fargate serverless
2a5b9d3 Built REST/GraphQL APIs serving 1M+ daily Medicare queries
c7f0e4a Implemented Kinesis data streams for real-time processing
9d2e8b1 Reduced data warehouse costs by 70% (Vertica → Redshift)
5b3a7c9 Architected multi-tier system serving 3M page views/day
1e8f4d6 Deployed infrastructure to 71 sites in Iraq (yes, really)
7c2d9a0 Started with Linux in 1994. Still here. Still learning.
tip@trylinux:~$ ls -la /var/log/thoughts | head -5
Oct 25Dumping a single record or query in MySQL
Aug 01Mac text-to-speech
Aug 01building kernel modules
Jan 27Remove existing jar signature and replacing it with a new signature.
Sep 20Working on a server without internet access
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tip@trylinux:~$ which skills
/usr/bin/aws
/usr/bin/python
/usr/bin/linux
/usr/bin/terraform
/usr/bin/docker
/usr/bin/postgresql
/usr/bin/redshift
/usr/bin/react
/usr/bin/graphql
/usr/bin/kubernetes
/usr/bin/jenkins
/usr/bin/bash
/usr/bin/git
/usr/bin/nginx
/usr/bin/redis
/usr/bin/etl
tip@trylinux:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1localhost
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