I started teaching in 2006. I have trained hundreds of learners since — and I am not finished. Engineering school students, technicians in career transition, professionals in continuing education. Men and women. Juniors of 18 and seniors of 60. Profiles without a diploma and managers with twenty years of experience.
I have taught Linux client/server, Windows client/server, Cisco networking, OSI model, WiFi, electricity, number systems, microcomputing, programmable logic controllers, Kubernetes. Everything that is today in the Foundation of Iron — I taught it in the classroom, face to face with learners, with machines under their fingers.
When I publish on training, the CPF, the IDPE, the infrationary crisis, digital sovereignty — I am not theorising. I am speaking to people I trained. Some of them are reading these lines from a position as CIO, operations manager, or SRE architect at a major company. I watched them learn to cable their first switch. I know what they are capable of. And I know what the market is trying to make them forget.
When I address hyperscalers, I am not speaking on behalf of a think tank. I am speaking on behalf of my students — those whose skills their certifications seek to render obsolete, those whom the title "DevOps" seeks to dissolve, those whom the shortage of bare-metal training seeks to isolate in a market they can no longer leave.
I speak to those I trained with the same frankness as in the classroom — no condescension, no demagoguery. The truth about the market, about competences, about what titles do not measure.
I speak to hyperscalers with the same frankness as to my students — no personal hostility, with a clear limit. What you are doing to bare-metal competence, I name it. And I will continue.