Central Florida · Maker

Hey, I'm ThantiK

Self-taught network admin, 3D printer repair specialist, and full-time maker. I fix the machines other people give up on, and I keep a few game servers humming while I'm at it — including one I wrote the management software for myself.

3D Printer Repair Network Admin Hackerspace Regular Game Servers
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16+ Years repairing 3D printers
5,203+ Printers serviced at 3D Print Orlando
7 Years founding a 3D printing community

What I Do

3D Printing

16 years of professional repair work. There's no "certification" for this trade; the printers don't care about paperwork. I manage 3D Print Orlando, Florida's 3D printing source and the area's only professional 3D printer repair service — 5,203+ machines serviced and counting. I also built out our 3D scanning and full-color mini-print studio, where we take scanning rigs to events, scan people on the spot, and print full-color miniature replicas of them.

I founded and ran Google+'s 3D Printing community for about 7 years. When G+ shut down, it migrated to Maker Forums, where it still lives today. I also run workshops and mentor other makers at local hackerspaces.

Networking & Servers

Self-taught network and systems admin, electronics designer, and product facilitator. I run Ark Aegis, a private ARK: Survival Ascended community built around "survival, for people with lives" — balanced progression instead of grind, on servers I've personally hosted for 3+ years.

To run it, I built Yaaass, a self-hosted server management suite for ARK: Survival Ascended — one-click deployment, clustering, automated backups, crash recovery, all through a browser instead of a command line. Zero to Island in three minutes. Port 7777 is my love language.