I'm Tyler, a senior ICS/OT security architect. My day work is industrial control system and operational technology security for hyperscale cloud and data center operations.
If you want the formal work history, you can find me on LinkedIn.
Where I come from
Before architecture, I served in the Navy. My background includes critical facilities, instrumentation, platform engineering, and systems engineering. In control system work, the answer to "is the network safe?" has consequences for cost and downtime. I've also stayed involved in local infrastructure and community volunteering.
I design things that tired humans can understand on a long shift. The handoff includes documentation and runbooks: "here's how to keep this running without me".
Where the name came from
A few years ago I worked as a tech manager on a night shift. One friend on that shift was my political and philosophical opposite. We spent twelve-hour shifts talking. Coworkers told us it sounded like having a podcast on in the background.
We started half our sentences with "You might have heard that" or "You may have seen that". It assumed the other person had already done some thinking.
"You might have" became YaMighta. I bought the domain for the podcast we were planning. The podcast never happened.
What I do
I take on architecture and design reviews for control system and OT environments, along with technical review boards and standards work. A typical handoff includes a functional block diagram, a segmentation and PPSM matrix, and risk notes. Runbooks cover operation and recovery.
Why a homelab is the portfolio
Most of the systems I've designed at scale belong to other people, and sharing their diagrams would break trust. What I can show you is the network I run for myself: a multi-VLAN 10G home network with separate household, lab, IoT, guest, and management traffic. It has monitoring and automation, and the site you're reading is hosted on it.
Where I work
Based in Lake Stevens, north of Seattle. I travel for talks, and remote works fine for review work. If you want me in the room, ask.
Public-interest OT security
I reserve limited time for nominal-fee or pro bono OT/ICS security reviews for small public-service organizations and community infrastructure. That can mean schools, clinics, small utilities, local facilities, or operators with important systems and thin staffing.
What a public-interest review covers.
Working together
I take on a handful of outside engagements at a time.
What I take on has the detail, or you canget in touch directly.