About

I’m Skyler King — a career changer turned network engineering and security student at WGU. Before tech, I worked as a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant in the medical industry. I traded ADLs for ACLs, and I haven’t looked back.

I got into networking the way most people do: by breaking something in a homelab and spending a weekend figuring out why. That homelab has since grown into a multi-node Proxmox cluster with OPNsense, TrueNAS, Docker, and more VLANs than I probably need.

What I’m working toward #

I’m looking for my first network or cloud engineering role. I’m most interested in enterprise networking, network automation, and infrastructure that actually works when you need it to. My background in healthcare taught me that reliability isn’t optional — it’s the whole point.

The homelab #

Two Proxmox nodes, 17 VMs and LXCs, 7 VLANs, OPNsense firewall, Cisco switches, Unifi wireless. I use it to test everything I’m learning — from OSPF adjacencies to automated documentation pipelines. You can explore the interactive topology diagram if you’re curious.

Certifications #