SubReal Studios

Cloud · security · operations · creative systems

Ideas are useful.
Finished systems are better.

SubReal Studios is a collection of technical and creative projects built by Andrew DeFever—one deliberate, testable step at a time.

View selected work Why the studio exists

Selected work

Projects with a job to do.

Each project has its own purpose, deployment boundary, and stage of development. The strongest work gets the most room.

Live AWS security Featured project

AWS Posture

A practical AWS assessment experience designed to turn cloud-security findings into understandable, prioritized actions.

  • AWS
  • Serverless
  • IAM
  • Security analysis
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AWS posture review Assessment
Review domains Security posture Findings organized for action
Identity & access Review
Logging & detection Review
Data protection Review
Network controls Review
Operational context Monitor
In development Operations

Weather & Power

Combines weather, power, and infrastructure context to help operators build a clearer incident picture.

  • AWS
  • Containers
  • EKS
  • Operations
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Cloud Resume Challenge Live
Live Cloud portfolio

Cloud Resume Challenge

A serverless professional resume with automated backend deployments, visitor tracking, and a dedicated AWS delivery boundary.

  • S3
  • CloudFront
  • Lambda
  • DynamoDB
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Research workflow

TrendCraft

Turns raw signals and research into structured, publishable output.

Open
05

Interactive creative

Vampire Ascension

An experimental interactive project exploring atmosphere, progression, and world-building.

Open
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Artwork

SubReal Art

The future home for physical artwork, collections, and the SubReal Studio Etsy shop.

Planned

Why this exists

Built after a second chance.

A near-death experience and liver transplant changed the scale of what mattered. Recovery required patience, optimism, discipline, and the willingness to keep moving when the full road was impossible to see.

SubReal Studios is the practical result of that lesson: learn the next skill, build the next system, finish the next useful thing, and keep putting one foot in front of the other.

The work is not proof that everything was easy. It is proof that deliberate action compounds.

Operating system

How the work moves forward.

  1. 01

    Begin before confidence arrives.

    Clarity usually follows motion. Waiting to feel fully ready is often procrastination wearing a tie.

  2. 02

    Build systems, not promises.

    Reliable workflows beat heroic effort. Make progress repeatable, observable, and reversible.

  3. 03

    Learn by producing.

    Documentation matters. Understanding becomes durable when something real has to work.

  4. 04

    Finish useful things.

    A modest working system creates more value than an ambitious idea trapped in planning.

About Andrew

Systems-oriented builder. Operations mindset.

Andrew DeFever is a System Analyst II with more than a decade of experience in enterprise network operations, incident response, troubleshooting, and infrastructure support.

He holds AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, and CompTIA Security+ certifications. His favorite work lives where architecture, security, automation, and operations connect.

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