Salt Lake City, UT

Aaron
Hendricks.

"If you see me looking at the stars,
I'm probably just checking the system logs."

I build things, break them, then fix them again to understand how they work end to end. This is fun for me. I believe that makes me a nerd. I'd like to travel more — to see more sunsets and fly my drone in more unique locations.

Kriegsmarine // 8 Nodes
Who I Am

Builder by necessity.
Engineer by choice.

I taught myself most of what I know. I grew up in Parsons, Kansas, moved to Salt Lake City with a plan that amounted to "get a job in IT" and enough determination to make it stick. I stay at the workplace because I'll own things other people don't want to touch.

Most of my homelab was pulled out of trash cans. That's not a complaint — it's a point of pride. Understanding a system well enough to revive it tells you more than buying one that already works. The fleet runs production workloads. It earns its keep.

The dream is geographic freedom: traveling with the weather, moving north as summer heats up, building electric vehicles in a Telespar frame out in the open somewhere. A quad. Space to think. The job funds the life — but the life is the point.

"Stupid humanity. Getting in the way of my hobbies."
— Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary
9+
Years self-taught
8
Fleet vessels
620
Kansas area code
SLC
Based in Utah
Open to relocation
Always packed
📖
Currently Reading
Upgrade
Blake Crouch
aaron@bismarck:~$ motd
AHComputing // Good evening, Admiral.
# fleet is whole. for now.
 
aaron@bismarck:~$ cat about.txt
Remote: yes
Relocate: yes
Chess: always in the bag
Drone: BetaFPV Meteor 75
Under the Hood

Things I'm building.

The homelab, the side projects, the things that keep the lights on and the brain occupied.

Kriegsmarine Fleet
8-vessel homelab named after WWII German warships. Proxmox cluster across two nodes (grafzeppelin, peterstrasser), Headscale mesh VPN, fleet command tooling via SSH. bismarck is the daily driver. Most of this came out of a dumpster.
Proxmox · Headscale
Butterpooch / Jarvis
SunFounder PiDog robot on a Raspberry Pi 5. OpenWakeWord wake detection, faster-whisper STT, Gemma 4 via LM Studio, Piper TTS. Full two-way voice conversation, multiple modes, motion detection security camera. The personality is aggressively cheerful and bureaucratically unhinged. This was intentional.
RPi5 · LM Studio
Project 1984
ESP32 Feather + I2S MEMS mic + microSD inside a hollowed-out hardcover copy of Orwell's 1984. Dual-mode firmware: record to WAV or serve files over a WiFi access point. 5.5 hours on a 1000mAh LiPo. Named appropriately.
ESP32 · Hardware
FPV Drones
Flying a BetaFPV Meteor 75 with DJI O4. Favorite activity: chasing seagulls. Also learned to go down a slide — you have to disarm right at the top before the drop. There's something about FPV goggles that collapses the distance between flying and being a kid again, both at the same time.
BetaFPV · DJI O4
Chess
I carry a chess set in my backpack everywhere I go. I don't get to play as much as I'd like, and I plan on changing that. First order of business at the new job: find someone worth playing. The board will be ready.
Always packed
Overland Camper
Long-term: a Telespar-framed electric overland build. Inspired by a YouTube rabbit hole that turned into a genuine plan. The end goal is geographic freedom — travel with the weather, go further north as summer arrives, have space to build and space to think. A quad on the trailer. Somewhere with room to breathe.
Long-term
High Ground Web
Web design and hosting side business. I spotted a gap: small businesses with strong local reputations and zero web presence. Built the tooling, pipeline, and sites. New client from DNS to live in under 10 minutes. Stripe billing, Flask backends, automated nginx deployment.
highgroundweb.com
Get in Touch

Let's talk.

Whether you're hiring, need a website built, or just want to talk infrastructure or chess — reach out.

Email admin@ahcomputing.com Resume hire.ahcomputing.com Blog blog.ahcomputing.com GitHub github.com/ahcomputing
aaron@bismarck:~$ whoami
aaron-hendricks
 
aaron@bismarck:~$ porkbun ping
✓ Credentials valid
Public IP: 208.97.56.229
 
aaron@bismarck:~$ fleet status
bismarck ONLINE daily driver
tirpitz ONLINE RTX 3080 Ti
grafzeppelin ONLINE proxmox prox1
peterstrasser ONLINE proxmox prox2
# 4 more vessels on station
 
# fleet is whole. for now.