CURRENTLY: IOWA / REMOTE

EASKER

IT that works where you are anywhere you are

We build systems that survive trail dust, dead batteries, and zero cell service with backup plans to recover from ashes.

TRAIL DUST โ€ข SATCOM โ€ข BASH โ€ข RESOLVE

Selected Work

SEPTEMBER 2006 โ€” PRESENT
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Rogue IT Systems Analyst

the guy you call when no one else knows the answer

ISU PROBLEM SOLVER
2025 โ€” ONGOING
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Not Afraid to Talk to Grok

Using Grok as a real collaborator to design field systems, write production scripts, and ship useful tools stupidly fast.

AI COLLAB RAPID PROTOTYPING FIELD SYSTEMS
ONGOING
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Killing Bad Standards & Making It Fast

Throwing out bloated corporate standards and terrible protocols. Reverse engineering the dumb ideas and rebuilding them as lean, stupidly fast tools that actually work off-grid.

REVERSE ENGINEERING PERFORMANCE NO BULLSHIT
2024 โ€” ONGOING
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River Trip Planning: Floods & Tornado Routes

Custom trip planning that pulls real flood forecasts and generates actual tornado escape routes instead of generic "be careful" advice.

RIVER LOGISTICS WEATHER ROUTING
2023 โ€” 2025
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Backcountry Archive System

Brutally simple off-grid media archive using mirrored rugged drives + a tiny Nextcloud box that actually keeps footage safe when you're far from pavement.

RUGGED STORAGE NEXTCLOUD
2022 โ€” PRESENT
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Field Media Survival Kit

The actual ugly-but-reliable tools we carry: card ingest that works from a power bank, drive health checkers, and "did this actually copy?" scripts.

PYTHON + BASH RUGGED DRIVES
ONGOING
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The 'I Can Actually Find My Shit' System

Helping adventure teams stop treating their footage like loose SD cards in a ziplock bag. Real off-grid sync + sane naming that works when you're 11 days from pavement.

OFF-GRID SYNC ADVENTURE TEAMS
2025 โ€” ONGOING
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Self-Driving Any Modern Car

Turning pretty much any modern car into a capable self-driving vehicle using open tools instead of getting locked into one expensive brand's ecosystem.

COMMA.AI / OPENPILOT CAN BUS HACKING

We don't do theater.

We show up with whatever actually works in the field. Sometimes that's code. Sometimes it's a headlamp and a handful of checksummed drives. Usually both.

01
Bad Ideas Die Here

Cloud sync that dies the second you lose signal? Enterprise DAMs that require an internet connection? "Best practices" written by people who have never slept in a tent? Happy to set them on fire.

02
We go where the footage is

We're not pure "IT people" who stay in the office. We carry gear, we shoot, we deal with the same dead batteries and bad weather you do. That means the systems we build actually respect how field work really happens.

03
Reliable Tools Win

When you're 11 days into a trip and the only thing between you and a nervous breakdown is whether your footage is actually safe, you don't want exciting new technology. You want boring, reliable, and obvious.

04
When the Networks Go Down

Cell towers die. Starlink can be taken out. We keep global radios so we can still talk and coordinate when everything else goes dark.

Experiments & Tools

TOOL
field-ingest.sh
Drops a card in the field. Checks it, checksums it, makes proxies if there's power, and tells you in plain English whether your footage is actually safe before you go to sleep.
Bash + exiftool + ffmpeg + solar
TOOL
rugged-archive-kit
Two mirrored SSDs in Pelican cases + a tiny script that makes sure both drives actually match and one of them is going home with a different person.
Python + common sense
EXPERIMENT
Starlink + proxy pusher
When you only have 30 minutes of good satellite bandwidth at camp, this thing figures out what the producer actually needs to see and sends only the useful stuff. No 80GB of dailies clogging the pipe.
Python + terrible hotel WiFi testing
ONGOING
Battery-aware pipeline
Learns how much power your laptop actually has left and only runs the heavy proxy jobs when the solar is producing or the car is running. Will not murder your batteries at 2am.
Python + too many power meters

Notes from the trenches

More coming. These are the ones worth keeping.

005 โ€” THE ACTUAL GEAR
What we actually reach for
โ€ข Insta360 (and batteries to last all weekend)
โ€ข Rugged SSDs in Pelican cases
โ€ข Starlink Mini + Iridium
โ€ข Solar + 12V field power systems
โ€ข DaVinci Resolve + too many proxies
โ€ข Nextcloud (self-hosted, obviously)
โ€ข A terrifying amount of Bash
โ€ข An alarming amount of Python
โ€ข Off-grid radio networks
โ€ข Rooted phones running LineageOS
โ€ข Motorized paddle board (when the wind isn't being your friend)
โ€ข Hammock (because we hate beds)

Experiments & Playthings

Some of the more pointless but enjoyable things that came out of playing with AI-assisted coding.

Asteroids

Browser clone โ€ข 1979

A faithful recreation of the classic vector arcade game.

PLAY ASTEROIDS โ†’
Fullscreen mode โ€ข Keyboard controls โ€ข ESC to close

Own Your Stack

Big tech wants you dependent on their clouds. Don't be. Running your own services teaches us more in a few weekends than years of clicking through SaaS dashboards ever will.

FILES & COLLAB
cloud.easker.com

Self-hosted Nextcloud. Files, calendars, contacts, photos, and real collaboration without feeding the surveillance machine.

โ†’ cloud.easker.com
LOCAL AI
ai.easker.com

Run your own LLMs locally. No data leaves your network. No rate limits. No one training on your prompts.

โ†’ ai.easker.com
CODE
git.easker.com

Self-hosted Git server. Your code, your issues, your CI. No more "your repo belongs to us now" surprises.

โ†’ git.easker.com
Start small. Pick one service. Use Docker. Learn a reverse proxy. Back everything up religiously. Once you do it once, the rest gets easier.
Let's make something that survives the trip.

We are happy to help you solve impossible problems.

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