I have been on #nostr only a few months. I have been trying to wrap my head around the tech aspects of it in the same time. I am building out a few sites with existing projects to hopefully expand the network and implement more relays and portals for users to access. I come from an enterprise knowledge management background and spent many years managing and deploying large scale infrastructure for private equity platforms on top name brands and am hoping to bring some of that knowledge and expertise to deploying sovereign minded infrastructure that I host and grow over time. In that same vein, I need to engage with those users that can assist me in filling in some knowledge gaps and help me round out my ability to mold these things into useful tools. I am more of a devops or systems engineer and not really a full on developer, so I tend to look for existing stacks that I can implement and potentially customize along the way as needed. I left the corporate world in 2018 and I have been on a journey of trying to build things I can call my own and be proud of versus trying to build and maintain things that are someone else’s cash cows. It has been a long and hard road of doing so and I am just now starting to get some major traction on trying to implement various things. I do need to monetize some aspects of these offerings, but I also want to provide infrastructure that is reliable and appealing to users. In that journey, I am looking to be able to discover and discuss many of the new and emerging implementations on nostr, lightning and bitcoin. These things are sometimes difficult learning curves and having the ability to discuss and discover them amongst educated and knowledgeable individuals is crucial to avoiding major pitfalls.