About Mission Tech

The Story

I spent years at AWS building cloud infrastructure. The work was interesting and the pay was comfortable, but something nagged at me: the networking concepts powering everything I built were locked behind dense textbooks and vendor certifications nobody could afford.

I wanted to teach networking the way I wished I had learned it — by doing. Interactive tools where you could watch a DNS query resolve, see a TCP handshake unfold, or route a packet through a real topology. Not slides. Not videos. Hands on the controls.

So I left. Moved back to Mission, BC, opened a text editor, and started building. The first tool was a DNS resolver that let you step through the recursive lookup yourself. Then came routing tables, ARP, TLS handshakes — each one a small interactive sandbox that makes an abstract protocol tangible.

Today Mission Tech is 14 tools covering the full stack from DNS to BGP, a guided curriculum called Signal Path, and an arcade game that turns packet delivery into a retro side-scroller. Everything is free, open, and built for anyone curious enough to click "Start."