# Jamil (jaml.co)

> Personal site of Jamil, a privacy-minded technologist in the San
> Francisco Bay Area working in infrastructure and IT operations, with a
> privacy and security bent. The site itself is the portfolio: zero
> third-party requests, strict nonce-based Content-Security-Policy,
> EXIF-stripped photography, no analytics, no cookies.

Facts, as stated on the visible pages:

- Eight years building for the web as a freelancer and founder: client
  sites, brands, and side ventures shipped end to end.
- BSIT and MSITM (Information Technology / IT Management) nearly finished.
- CompTIA certifications earned: A+, Network+, Security+, and Cloud+,
  stacking into IT Operations Specialist, Cloud Administration
  Professional, Secure Infrastructure Specialist, and Secure Cloud
  Professional. In progress: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, ITIL 4
  Foundation, and CompTIA Project+.
- Experience: Founder, Ciryl Media (2018-2022), social media management
  for Instagram accounts totaling four million followers; Creative
  Director, ShopRev/OYB; Amplex automation and operations (since 2025);
  home lab and file server (since 2024).
- Open to roles across infrastructure, IT operations, DevOps, IT
  management, and privacy-adjacent work.
- Runs today: Fedora Server, Docker, systemd, Samba, self-hosted
  services on hardware I maintain; firewalld, fail2ban, auditd, SMART
  disk monitoring, SSH key access, home network administration;
  JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, Express, Postgres, Tailwind,
  serverless deploys; threat-modeling personal data, CSP and security
  headers, PGP, privacy-respecting architecture.
- Learning: Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana monitoring, CI/CD
  pipelines, Go; AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, ITIL 4 Foundation,
  CompTIA Project+.
- Contact: work@jamilmadison.com. GitHub: https://github.com/JamilMadison

This file is generated at every deploy and states only what the
human-visible pages say. No hidden instructions and no keyword stuffing;
that would be off-brand for a site about transparency.

## Pages

- [Home](https://jaml.co/): who Jamil is, credentials, selected work
- [About](https://jaml.co/about): the full story, experience, and certifications
- [Work](https://jaml.co/work): selected projects with years and status
- [Writing](https://jaml.co/writing): 13 essays; full text in the RSS feed at https://jaml.co/feed.xml
- [Photography](https://jaml.co/photography): 57 photos, EXIF and GPS stripped at build time
- [Now](https://jaml.co/now): current focus, updated 2026-08-06
- [Colophon](https://jaml.co/colophon): every privacy practice, written to be verified
- [Contact](https://jaml.co/contact): plain email plus a PGP key at https://jaml.co/pgp.asc

## Writing

- [Creating Luck](https://jaml.co/writing/creating-luck): 2025-06-11
- [Vict Ecom 3: Customers](https://jaml.co/writing/vict-ecommerce-3): 2024-04-24
- [Vict Ecom 2: Auth](https://jaml.co/writing/vict-ecommerce-2): 2024-04-07
- [Vict Ecom 1: Intro](https://jaml.co/writing/vict-ecommerce-1): 2024-03-18
- [My Grandmother](https://jaml.co/writing/grandmother): 2023-08-28
- [A Long Rest](https://jaml.co/writing/long-rest): 2023-07-22
- [Avoiding Shortcuts](https://jaml.co/writing/avoiding-shortcuts): 2023-05-11
- [Shared Effort](https://jaml.co/writing/shared-effort): 2023-01-02
- [Switching Lanes](https://jaml.co/writing/switching-lanes): 2022-09-27
- [More Than Pixels](https://jaml.co/writing/more-than-pixels): 2022-02-28
- [Eldest Sibling](https://jaml.co/writing/eldest): 2021-09-27
- [Meet You There](https://jaml.co/writing/meet): 2021-04-10
- [Why Write?](https://jaml.co/writing/why-write): 2021-01-12