So, networks are my thing: the switches, the firewalls, the servers, and digging into the traffic when something's not behaving. I also love building the hardware itself. I'll put together PCs, workstations, servers, and whole homelabs from a pile of parts, and I pretty much know every piece that goes in. My own homelab runs a few websites, a VPN, and DNS filtering.
Honestly, most of this I taught myself. School gave me the basics, but the real learning happened by getting my hands dirty, taking things apart, and figuring out why they broke. I build everything with backups in mind, which is probably why I don't get many "it's down again" calls. And I genuinely like a challenge, so if you throw something at me I've never seen, I'll stay on it until it clicks, usually that same day.
These days I run Nozil Intelligence Technologies (my AV/IT shop), help out with IT at Edu-Tech and MSLS Partners, and run the network over at Church of God Worship Center. I'm also wrapping up my IT networking degree at Penn State and working on my CCNA.