Hello, my name is Brian Johnson. I’m a Senior System Administrator and Information Technology guru based in San Francisco.
This website
The primary focus of this website is my personal blog in which I can share knowledge, brainstorm ideas and discuss topics that are important to me as it relates to IT, technology, and life.
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The IT guru
With over 15 years of experience in IT Operations, IT Service Management and more recently Network and Cloud Administration while all paralleled with various front-end/back-end programming-oriented projects during this time, I consider myself very unique and robust individual.
I live, breathe and sweat information security hold a number IT-related principles near and dear:
- Digitigrade (lean/agile/graceful mindset) as an IT posture (and one for life in general)
- Principle of least privilege (PoLP)
- Security by design (networking/cloud-computing)
- Infrastructure as a code (IaC and “GitOps”) for ease of automation (CI/CD) and optimization
- Strong collaboration between ITOps and DevSecOps [DevOps & SecOps] teams
- ITSM/ITIL (IT Service Management/Infrastructure Library)
- Industry (and company)-standard best practices
Please check out my resume for a complete list of my work experience and ever-changing skillet.
A little about my history
I’m very fortunate to have been exposed to technology at a relatively young age.
At Kinderwood (Grade K-2) in Santa Clara, CA and Oster Elementary School (Grade 2-5) in San Jose, CA I first learned to type on an Apple IIe. I honestly can’t tell you how many times I died of dysentery in Oregon Trail.
Sometime between my Oregon Trail days and when I started Elementary School, I was gifted a Nintendo and that was the catalyst really for my interest in gaming which later evolved to computers and technology in general.
At Rainbow of Knowledge (after shool/care), those were the days of Super Ninteneo and Sega Genesis.
Throughout the years of elementary and middle school, had exposure to a wide range games of platforms and even dabbled a bit in programming (whoo, Turob/Power BASIC)!
- Apple
- IIc/IIe
- PowerPC
- Macintosh Performa 6320CD - my first ever computer!
- Atari 2600 (of course)
- Nintendo
- Nintendo Entertainment System
- Super Nintendo
- GameBoy
- GameBoy Advance
- Nintendo 64
- GameCube
And now
Coming soon
Thank you! for reading.