About Me

Why I built DNS Lister

Yes — I built it. Every line of it, for a problem I kept hitting myself.

Most of the clients I take on arrive with a bad domain name. Not a ranking problem — that stopped being true years ago — but a memorability problem. A name nobody can spell over the phone, repeat from memory, or say out loud without explaining it costs real referrals. Finding them something better used to eat hours of my week. Now it takes minutes, which is the whole reason this exists.

I’m also building expiry alerts, and that one is personal. A client of mine lost her domain because nobody was watching the renewal date — she found out when her site went dark, and the name was gone. Nothing about that was inevitable. It was a calendar entry nobody owned. That should never happen to anyone I work with again.

I’m a hands-on, full-spectrum IT professional with 25+ years of experience spanning SQL Server development, WordPress architecture, Linux systems, LAMP development, web hosting, and custom automation. I thrive in hybrid technical/managerial roles where I can combine strategic planning with deep system-level execution.

Technically, my heart lives in SQL. Whether it’s Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL — if there’s a query to write or a schema to optimize, I’m there. I’ve also built and maintained over 100 WordPress websites, many with custom plugins, eCommerce workflows, marketing automation, and SEO strategies — always with performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability in mind.

My recent focus includes:

  • Self-hosted solutions and VPS environments
  • PHP, WordPress, and MariaDB development
  • Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok (most paid)
  • Proxmox and LXC-based dev/test environments
  • Home lab orchestration and network-level filtering with pfSense
  • Automating cloud-free workflows using open-source tools like Huginn
  • Python scripting for recursive sitemap crawling, syslog-to-SQL pipelines, and more

I’m passionate about simplifying complexity, cutting waste (financial and technical), and building solutions that just work.