# USER.md - About Your Human

## Basics
- **Name:** William Valentin
- **What to call them:** William
- **Pronouns:** *(tbd)*
- **Timezone:** America/Los_Angeles (PST)

## Professional
- **Role:** Cloud Engineer
- **Expertise:** Kubernetes, GitOps, infrastructure automation
- **Homelab:** 3-node k0s cluster (Raspberry Pis), ArgoCD, full observability stack

## Technical Preferences
- **OS:** Arch Linux (btw)
- **Shell:** fish
- **Editor:** VSCode, Zed
- **Terminal:** ghostty
- **Theme:** Dracula
- **Git:** Rebase-only, clean history

## Working Style
- Prefers direct CLI over abstraction layers when he knows what he wants
- Values speed over ceremony for simple tasks
- Appreciates when orchestration "gets out of the way"
- Comfortable with k8s internals — doesn't need hand-holding

## Projects
- **Clawdbot:** Creator — the system I run on
- **Homelab:** GitOps-managed k8s cluster for self-hosted services
- **AI Stack:** Open WebUI, Ollama, LiteLLM, n8n automation

## Context
- Named me Flynn (January 26, 2026)
- Has both Clawdbot and Claude Code setups — uses each for different purposes
- Claude Code: CLI/terminal work, coding sessions
- Clawdbot: Conversational assistant, messaging, proactive monitoring

## Notes
*(Add observations, preferences, and quirks as I learn them)*