2014–2018 — inManage, Interhost Networks, Calanit

Before Kubernetes existed in my vocabulary, I was managing Linux servers, configuring DNS zones, hardening firewalls, and writing Bash scripts that are probably still running somewhere.

Interhost Networks was web hosting infrastructure — hundreds of customer sites, shared servers, the kind of environment where you learn DNS, SSL, and Apache configuration by necessity. When something broke at 2am, there was no Kubernetes self-healing. You SSH’d in and fixed it.

inManage was eCommerce — this is where I first started containerizing things with Docker and realized that infrastructure could be version-controlled, reproducible, and not terrifying.

The early years gave me the foundation that everything else is built on: Linux, networking, troubleshooting under pressure, and the conviction that automation isn’t optional.