Ryan Robb

I've spent the better part of my career at the intersection of on-premises infrastructure and cloud — starting in healthcare IT at Conemaugh Health System, then moving into medical imaging infrastructure at Fujifilm Medical Systems. From there I went deeper into the MSP world, ran HPC infrastructure for Penn State research computing, and eventually made my way to VMware as a Senior Technical Account Manager before moving to AWS where I'm a Sr. TAM today. The through-line across all of it has been datacenters — how they're built, how they break, how they evolve, and how the line between "on-prem" and "cloud" keeps getting blurrier. I've watched organizations try to navigate that shift from every angle: as the person keeping the lights on, as the person designing the architecture, and as the person helping customers figure out what to do next. The homelab is where the curiosity lives. It's where I get to pull on threads I don't have time for at work, break things without consequences, and actually understand how the stuff I recommend to others really behaves at 2am when something goes wrong. Most of what ends up on this blog started as a problem I ran into at home and couldn't stop thinking about.