Field notes · small-org & government IT
Field notes from a small government IT shop
Practical automation, security, and civic tech for people who are the whole IT department.
I'm Ryan Bertram, an IT director for a mid-size city in Michigan. I write about the unglamorous work of keeping a lean public-sector IT operation running, generalized from real projects so you can reuse it.
Expect PowerShell that provisions accounts, Python that moves the data nobody wants to touch by hand, Flask apps that replace a spreadsheet and a prayer, and hard-won lessons about doing more with a small team and a smaller budget.
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Automating new-hire onboarding in a one-person IT shop
How I replaced a manual, error-prone new-hire checklist with a web form and a PowerShell provisioning script, plus the gotchas that made me keep a human in the loop.
Views here are my own and do not represent any employer. Nothing on this site describes the specific systems, data, or configuration of any organization I work for.