Kody Youngblood

Sovereign infrastructure, MSP work, and the occasional homelab adventure.

Vice President · IT Outsource · Marshall, TX

Eight years of keeping small and mid-sized businesses running on real infrastructure — datacenter, VoIP, Active Directory, Windows, Linux, and whatever else the day throws at me. Self-taught. Hands-on. 🦞

01 About

I'm the VP at IT Outsource, a small MSP based in Marshall, Texas. We're a 7-person team supporting 100+ clients across the spectrum — from offices of three to operations of a hundred plus. I'm the technical lead.

I don't have a CS degree. I have eight years of solving real problems for real people, and a homelab that never stops growing. Everything I know about computers, networks, servers, and programming I taught myself by needing to know it.

I believe in local-first infrastructure — owning the hardware, owning the data, owning the stack. The cloud is fine. Iron in your own rack is better.

02 What I Do

Run an MSP

Day-to-day support for 100+ clients. Workstations, servers, networks, backups, the works. If it's broken, I fix it. If it's working, I'm probably planning the next thing.

Build the Sovereign Stack

Locally-hosted email, VoIP, file services, and remote access — engineered as an alternative to the everything-as-a-subscription model. Real privacy, real control, real ownership.

Tinker Relentlessly

The homelab is where new ideas get tested before they ever touch a client. Proxmox, custom dashboards, patched open-source projects, whatever moves the ball forward.

03 Skills

Infrastructure

  • Datacenter ops
  • Hyper-V
  • Proxmox
  • Veeam
  • SAN / Storage
  • RAID

Networking

  • SonicWall
  • OPNsense
  • VLAN
  • VPN (Pritunl, WireGuard, IPsec)
  • Tailscale
  • DNS / DHCP

Servers & Identity

  • Windows Server
  • Active Directory
  • Group Policy
  • Exchange
  • Grommunio
  • RMM

Linux & Web

  • Ubuntu / Debian
  • nginx
  • Let's Encrypt
  • SSH / systemd
  • Bash
  • Docker

VoIP

  • FusionPBX
  • FreeSWITCH
  • SIP
  • SBC

Programming

  • Python
  • JavaScript / Node
  • HTML / CSS
  • PowerShell
  • Git

04 Experience

Vice President · IT Outsource (ITO), Marshall, TX 2018 — Present
  • Help design, build, and maintain the company datacenter — the iron that runs everything our clients depend on.
  • Designed, deployed, and operate the in-house VoIP system from the ground up.
  • Stand up and maintain Active Directory, Group Policy, and RMM environments for clients ranging from a handful of employees to over a hundred.
  • Handle networking, web services, Windows administration, Linux administration, backups, security, and the occasional bit of programming — across 100+ clients.
  • Operate as VP on a 7-person team. Wear every hat that needs wearing.

05 Education

Graduated top 10% of my high school class. Some college. Everything else — every server, every script, every protocol — is self-taught, learned in the trenches over the last eight years.

06 FusionPBX Setup & Configuration

Flat-rate VoIP deployment for businesses ready to stop paying per-seat pricing. Your own phone system — no licenses, no per-user fees, no recurring costs beyond your SIP trunking.

The Setup

Full FusionPBX deployment on your server, or I will provision a ~$12/mo cloud instance. SIP trunk configuration, extension setup for your entire team, auto-attendant / IVR, voicemail to email, ring groups, call queues — the works.

The Price

$750 flat — one-week turnaround. No ongoing commitment. No contracts. Your system, your control. You get full admin access and documentation so it is truly yours.

What You Will Need

A domain name, a SIP trunking account (I recommend Flowroute or Telnyx), and a server or VM — or I will spin one up for you. One admin walkthrough included.

07 Get In Touch

Talk infrastructure, Sovereign Stack, MSP work, or just say hi.