Scott Built Systems
Thirty years in infrastructure operations — storage, SAN, VMware, Windows and Linux, and the automation that keeps them observable. Currently at a Fortune 500 financial services firm, where I built and run the platform its infrastructure automation executes on.
I build systems and I fix them. Mostly what I do is notice that the same problem is showing up in four places that have nothing to do with each other.
Case files
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Replacing a six-figure platform nobody used
A commercial automation platform carrying a six-figure annual license was going unused. What replaced it was designed around adoption instead of capability — and a third of the work running on it today isn't mine.
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Automating infrastructure health checks off a manual, offshore process
An offshore team logged into every array, switch, and vCenter by hand, three times a day. The replacement watches 16 SAN switches, 14 vCenters, and 1.3 PB of provisioned storage — and still runs three times a day, because that cadence is a fossil of the manual process.
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Operation Diamond Forge: running a 200-person encampment on three web apps
Two hundred participants, sixty squadrons, eighteen states, twelve days — on a platform whose access model is all-or-nothing per deployment, for a population that is mostly minors.
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Getting a hundred-year-old cemetery off paper
A volunteer board, a century of ledger books, and a burial model where getting the data wrong doesn't produce a bad report — it produces a family being told there's room when there isn't.