T-Mobile Lost the Plot
Fifteen years of loyalty, a half-dozen frustrating support calls, and a company that forgot what made it great.
I'm Cameron — IT Systems Analyst at Redwire Defense & Space on the Central Coast of California. I manage the firewalls, networks, servers, and ZScaler infrastructure that keeps engineers doing their jobs without noticing the stack underneath. On the side I consult for local businesses — helping places like Adelaida Winery keep their networks and servers running.
Outside of work I'm in the homelab. What started as gaming-servers.net has grown into a K3s cluster running a dozen services — the biggest being ipinfo.app, an IP intelligence suite that has handled over three billion requests across ASN lookup, proxy detection, and geo tools. I also build and maintain real estate platforms, music preservation archives, cosmetologist portfolios, and whatever else sounds interesting.
When I'm away from the keyboard I'm out in nature — hiking trails, taking in views, and finding the kind of quiet that only exists outside. I hunt down craft beers and wines across the Central Coast, and burn vacation club points on trips to Hawaii and Bend, Oregon — a purchase I'd describe as equally stupid and awesome.
Fifteen years of loyalty, a half-dozen frustrating support calls, and a company that forgot what made it great.
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