Dustin
Alleman

I'm Dustin. I've spent over a decade in IT: support, help desk, networking, engineering, infrastructure. It started long before the paycheck. I was the kid taking computers apart, downloading games and music, breaking things and figuring out how to fix them. Too many years of World of Warcraft, still a PC gamer. That curiosity turned into the career.

I did IT in the Marine Corps, carried it through a few companies after that, and these days I work on Cisco networking in a FedRAMP environment. I came up on the hands-on side: packet captures, escalations, enterprise gear. The goal was always to architect networks, not just support them, and to build the tools I wished I had along the way.

So I build. Dashboards, AI agents, automation, a homelab that grew from scavenged gear into something that runs like production. A lot of it points at one goal: moving into a sales engineer role, which is why so many of these projects are about proving a thing out and explaining it clearly. I also teach CCNA-level networking at colleges around Chicago, which is some of the most rewarding work I do.