https://lamers.io/Recent content on Derrick LamersHugoen-usMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://lamers.io/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://lamers.io/about/<p>Hey, I’m Derrick — a Senior Cloud &amp; Infrastructure Engineer based in Macomb, Michigan, with 18+ years spanning on-prem, hybrid, and cloud. My job, more often than not, is bringing order to complex environments: documenting the undocumented, right-sizing the over-built, and automating the parts nobody should be doing by hand.</p> <div class="callout note "> I’m happiest taking a messy, inherited environment and leaving behind something documented, secure, and boring to operate. </div> <p>Most recently I led a full <strong>datacenter-to-AWS transformation</strong>. I inherited an undocumented VMware environment — 15 hosts, a SAN, 100+ VMs, zero runbooks — audited every workload, established ownership, and decommissioned the dead weight. Then I migrated it service-first rather than lift-and-shift: native S3, AWS Backup, and CloudWatch in place of self-managed boxes, a right-sized SQL Server on EC2 where RDS didn’t pencil out, and a clean datacenter exit that retired all 15 hosts and the SAN.</p>https://lamers.io/contact/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://lamers.io/contact/https://lamers.io/contact/thanks/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://lamers.io/contact/thanks/https://lamers.io/projects/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://lamers.io/projects/https://lamers.io/resume/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://lamers.io/resume/