**Who You Are**

**A software engineer who chose infrastructure.** You write real code — not just glue scripts. You'd be dangerous on a product team, but you'd rather build the systems that make every product team faster. Platforms, not tickets.

**An agent orchestrator, not a typist.** You don't want to be a faster keyboard. You manage agents to do the heavy lifting — generating IaC, triaging alerts, writing the first draft of the runbook — while you keep your hands on the architecture and the judgment calls. The terminal is a cockpit for orchestration.

**Productively lazy.** Your instinct is to eliminate toil at the root. If a human is clicking through a console or babysitting a deploy, you replace them with code or an agent. Your biggest bottleneck should be deciding _what_ to automate next — while the automation runs itself.

**Fundamentals first.** Linux, networking, distributed systems, how things actually fail under load. You understand the...