Hi there. I'm Mark, a Dutch guy who has worked as an infrastructure consultant and IT specialist for 25+ years, or whatever we called it before the labels stuck. Some roles leaned one way, some the other, but mostly I just work to improve things or keep them running while making them easier to manage. I've had jobs and roles over the years ranging from supporting and driving care for mentally and physically disabled people to rolling out enterprise platforms in the financial industry at 100k+ user scale.
Along the way I've learned that both people and infrastructure tend to be more about patience than technology.
That probably also explains why I end up building things in my spare time. These personal projects weren’t planned. They came out of curiosity, experimentation, and the quiet satisfaction of making something work. If they help someone else along the way, that's a nice side effect.
While I do write scripts and can read enough code to be dangerous, I'm not a software developer by trade. I understand loops, conditionals, and why indentation matters, but I leave REST APIs and memory leak hunting to people who actually enjoy that sort of thing. I mostly glue things together until they behave.
That approach has led to a handful of personal projects: a PowerShell bootstrapper for Windows AMD AI stacks (ai-ai-ai), a Rust save manager for Subnautica 2 (NotAlterra), and a small ComfyUI plugin to monitor AMD GPUs on Windows (XPUSYS-Monitor-NG). All of them started as “I need this to work better than it currently does” problems.
After the third one I realised I was spending more time packaging and rebuilding than actually improving anything, so I learned GitHub Actions and automated most of it. Not because I suddenly became a developer, but because I don't like doing the same thing twice.
I'm still an engineer at heart. I like understanding how systems fit together, and I enjoy making the boring parts less annoying.
When I'm not working on open source, I spend time with family and friends, travel when I can, eat and drink well, and occasionally play guitar badly enough that it stays private.