{"id":11,"date":"2024-03-24T16:47:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T16:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platformdev.org\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:33:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:33:52","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.platformdev.org\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-84\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platformdev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/luca-bravo-XJXWbfSo2f0-unsplash.jpg\" style=\"object-position:90% 75%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"90% 75%\"\/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-80 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-cover-is-layout-bd17c814 wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-kenta-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xxx-large-font-size wp-elements-dd3d5dfd774c6c0be9cc3867aac423e5\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xx-small);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xx-small);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xx-small);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--xx-small)\">My Journey<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3a88641f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-global-padding is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-column-is-layout-236ffaf5 wp-block-column-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"alignwide wp-block-paragraph\">My career began in the trenches of bare-metal infrastructure, racking servers and terminating fiber in dial-up ISP datacenters. That foundational work evolved into deep Unix\/Linux systems administration, where I spent years honing precision troubleshooting across complex compute, networking, and enterprise storage arrays\u2014including EMC, NetApp, Isilon, and HP 3PAR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shift to cloud computing in 2016 marked a pivotal evolution. Stepping into Site Reliability Engineering during a full-scale enterprise migration to AWS, I leveraged my deep systems background to build automated, highly resilient cloud architectures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, that decades-long foundation gives me a unique edge in the AI era. Knowing how systems actually operate at the metal allows me to write highly precise prompt engineering workflows and instantly filter out &#8220;AI slop&#8221;\u2014separating superficial LLM generated code from robust, battle-tested, production-grade architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-kenta-primary-active-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-328f851a3205dbae961707870f7179f6 wp-block-paragraph\">Jason Wells<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2094\" height=\"3075\" src=\"https:\/\/platformdev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/profile-pic-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72\" style=\"width:400px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/boxed-page-builder.php","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.platformdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.platformdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.platformdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.platformdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.platformdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/staging.platformdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/staging.platformdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.platformdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}