YoloColo Rack Specifications

Here’s a look at the rack buildout Specifications for YoloColo: The Rack Buildout 2 ASA5506’s in Active-Standby 1 ASA Mount Tray (54 shipped) 1 AC Infinity CONTROLLER 12 1 Buffalo Nas (3410dn) 6TB (VMware Backups Only) 1 Synology 4 bay NAS DiskStation DS418 27 TB (main storage) – These have shucked WD 10 TB Elements Desktop Hard Drives 4 Total 1 Raspberry Pi Mount System 1 11 TB Disk ArRead More…

YoloColo Rack Build

This is my playland or what I call YoloColo.It’s a pretty neat set up that I designed myself. Rack layout As you can see, I built a custom rack. This is the stupidest thing I did in this entire process of moving out of the old DC and into my maker space. I had this “vision” to make it looks like a Star Trek computer core that why it’s that StarShip gray color. This turned into a GRead More…

My Homelab Journey

Below you’re going to see my different homelabs. I started doing what I now called Homelabing back in 2010 and man, it’s been a ride looking at old images. I’ll try to remember what things were/did but no promises. 🙂 Homelab 1: The Parent’s House This was my workspace back at my parent’s house during my teenage years. It was very much the reason for the big power bill! I was lucky when IRead More…

Working On Magic Wheelchair

Hey friends! I’m collaborating with some amazing artists and makers from Artisan’s Asylum Artisans Asylum in the coming months to create epic costumes for kids with disabilities by incorporating their wheelchairs into the designs. Check out the Magic Wheelchair project and if you can, please support our endeavor to create something magical for Angelle! In the coming weeks, you’ll see updates toRead More…

Failing

It happened. You finally landed that next large project, the one that you think will defend all of your decisions leading up to this point. The big one that will redeem all of that hard work during the years leading up to it.  But the fact is that there is no one project that will do that. No one project will ever do that because that’s not how life works. All these projects really are is a waRead More…

Me!

I’m currently a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Rue Gilt Groupe, with previous experience at companies such as SessionM, Cloud Care, Virgin Pulse, Airadigm and others. My background is in data center operations. I then expanded into the cloud when I moved to Boston. I consider myself an expert in data centers and cloud operations as I’m able to bridge the gap between these two worlds and offerRead More…