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Guides and field notes on identity, Terraform, and IT operations.

Written from running these systems in production, not from reading the docs. Short, specific, and built around the work we actually do.

AIField note

I built an autonomous agent to win software bounties. It won nothing. Here is what it taught me.

A field report on building the entire machine before testing the one part that actually mattered, and the five lessons it left behind.

Read the note~7 min
IdentityField note

Three Okta mistakes we keep seeing in 2026

Three configuration mistakes we still find in Okta orgs running on autopilot, and the cheapest way to close each one.

Read the note~3 min
ComplianceField note

Access reviews without the spreadsheet

The quarterly access review is a spreadsheet by accident, not by design. Here is how to stop running it like one.

Read the note~2 min
NetworksGuide

Autonomous detection, human-approved fixes

Splitting autonomous LAN fault detection from one-tap, human-approved remediation behind a confidence gate, kill switch, and append-only audit trail.

Read the guide~3 min
NetworksGuide

Multi-vendor LAN faults under one model

Running a mixed Meraki and UniFi fleet (and a real on-LAN host probe) under one canonical fault model, one board, swappable per-vendor adapters underneath.

Read the guide~3 min
TerraformGuide

Plain English to Terraform

How a plain-English description becomes production-grade Terraform across seven providers, then a pull request in your repo.

Read the guide~3 min
IdentityGuide

Okta Terraform automation

Managing Okta as code: what belongs in Terraform, the parts that bite (event hooks, drift, lifecycle), and how to get it right.

Read the guide~3 min
GovernanceGuide

IT governance, run by agents

How Paragon turns governance from a dashboard of problems into an assess, generate, remediate loop across twelve modules.

Read the guide~3 min
IdentityGuide

Continuous access reviews

Why the quarterly access-review spreadsheet fails, what it is meant to catch, and how to run it continuously with the fix attached.

Read the guide~3 min

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