I work in infrastructure architecture, but the interesting part is rarely only the infrastructure.

Why this site exists

vStaub is where I write through ideas before they become too polished. The point is not to publish final answers. It is to document how my thinking changes as I work through technology, decisions, systems, and useful experiments.

A lot of the writing will start with infrastructure because that is where much of my work lives. But technology is often the domain, not the whole subject. The subject is usually closer to context, trade-offs, incentives, operating models, and the people trying to make good decisions without perfect information.

What tends to show up here

Expect infrastructure, networking, architecture, cloud and platform-adjacent work, observability, security boundaries, automation, and AI-assisted workflows. I am especially interested in where those things meet review, validation, documentation, and decision-making.

Career development will show up too, but not as a polished ladder-climbing exercise. I am more interested in how people learn, how confidence develops, how judgment forms, and how work changes when the job becomes less about having an answer and more about reducing uncertainty.

There will probably be personal rabbit holes as well: DJing and music, coffee, soccer, golf, travel, and whatever else keeps teaching me something about practice, participation, systems, taste, or useful friction.

Earlier writing

Before this version of the site, I wrote under Thestaticroute. That work was more narrowly technical: networking, Python, infrastructure experiments, diagrams, and learning out loud. vStaub is broader, but it is not disconnected from that earlier thread.

How to read it

This site is not a claim that I have everything figured out. It is a place where ideas are allowed to be provisional. Some posts will be more technical. Some will be more reflective. The common thread is trying to notice what changed, what held up, and what is worth thinking through again.