I'm Tyler, an independent IT/OT architect based in Lake Stevens, Washington. YaMighta is my consulting practice for the networks, automation, cameras, access systems, and OT details that support homes and small operations. I work for owners who want a design package in their hands: drawings, bills of materials, runbooks, and clear guidance for the people installing the system.
If you want the formal work history, you can find me on LinkedIn.
Where I come from
Before architecture, I served in the Navy. Most of my professional background since then has been industrial control systems security architecture, platform engineering, and systems engineering. That is the kind of work where the answer to "is the network safe?" matters in dollars, downtime, and sometimes worse. Around all of it, I've stayed close to local infrastructure and community volunteering, because the systems that hold up a neighborhood are often local, physical, and easy to overlook.
That history shows up in the practice in two ways. First, I design things that tired humans can understand on a long shift. Second, I treat handoffs as the deliverable. Documentation, runbooks, and "here's how to keep this running without me" are the work.
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, by every measure that's supposed to matter, my political and philosophical opposite. We spent twelve-hour shifts talking. About the work. About the world. About everything. Coworkers told us it sounded like having a podcast on in the background. Evidence. Anecdote. No yelling.
The trick to staying friends through it was a phrase. We started half our sentences with "You might have heard that" or "You may have seen that". It was a small generosity that did a lot of work. It assumed the other person had already done some thinking. It opened a door.
"You might have" became YaMighta. We were going to start a podcast. I bought the domain. The podcast never happened, but the disposition stuck, and it turns out it's the right disposition for this practice too. The work I do is for people who already know their operation. My job is to bring evidence, useful anecdotes, and the assumption that you've already considered the obvious thing.
What I do
Residential projects can include design, parts selection, configuration, and commissioning. Craft projects are owner-side architecture: design packages, runbooks, risk notes, and implementation guidance for your GC and OT integrator.
The architecture, the bill of materials, the runbook, and the handoff document belong to you. Cable plans and labels are part of that package. Your low-voltage trades pull and terminate the cable with a clear plan in front of them.
A useful handoff might include the parts list, Wi-Fi plan, VLAN and IP plan, cable labels, firewall notes, backup notes, and vendor questions. It should also include the first runbook someone reaches for when something breaks.
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, I'm a comfortable drive to greater Seattle, the Eastside, Snohomish County, and Portland for residential and craft engagements. I'll travel further for craft projects worth the trip: wine country in Eastern Washington, the Willamette Valley, and beyond.
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.
The work is practical: asset review, remote access questions, segmentation, vendor coordination, and a short list of changes worth doing first. If that sounds like the help you need, read more about public-interest OT security.
Working together
I work with a small number of clients at a time. If your home network, homelab, brewery floor, or distillery OT review needs a design you can hand to other people, I'd like to hear about it.