About
Julian West is a North Texas network engineer, musician, and writer.
Trivial stuff…
I am a working-glass geek into technology, art, and good design.
I was raised in rural Texas by parents who were both born before 1931 (I am late for everything).
I am a self-made man with all the past mistakes to prove it. I keep growing and learning every day.
I endured a term of poverty growing up, including a very brief period of homelessness. It was an education I wouldn’t trade for anything.
Writing code changed my life along with curiosity, Macs, and PCs.
Myers-Briggs says I am INTP, but I like people. At least the cool ones.
My close friends call me “Jules”, maybe seven people. The cool ones.
For a living I’m an ops nerd and I manage IT network projects & deployments.
I am, despite the Cisco/Wintel/Linux IT gig, a huge Apple geek. This is not an uncommon thing nowadays.
I drive an electric car built in California that auto dealerships just hate.
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For hobbies I write and strum a guitar and develop messy Python code.
