Hey, it's Norm.

Some dude from the Internet.

I've been on the Internet since the turn of the century and have seen how it has changed over the years. For better and for worse.

Professionally, I've held various engineering positions over the past 17+ years: IT intern, System Administrator, Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer, and everything in between. I currently work as a Solutions Architect, helping engineering teams across a global enterprise implement secure, scalable and cost-effective solutions in the Cloud. Personally, I mostly find myself drawn to the intersection of technology and society. Having watched the march of consolidation, corporatization, and platformization across the Internet in the past 25 years, I find myself disheartened. This isn't the future we envisioned. So now I spend my time doing what I can to unplug myself and support people much smarter than me in helping take back the rest of the Internet.