Steve Shickles
Veteran and Alaska Fairbanks grad, Steve Shickles led an IT firm for 12 years before focusing on AWS, IaC, and AI automation. He now builds secure, scalable Prison Professors platforms to empower justice-impacted lives.
Recent Journal Entries
Church & Reflection
Today was a meaningful and productive day. I started the morning by going to church, which gave me a chance to reflect and find some peace. Afterward, I was grateful to spend time with my wife — we sh...
Three Weeks of Momentum: Building Infrastructure for Impact (January 3-23, 2026)
The first three weeks of January have been a sprint of platform development, infrastructure hardening, and strategic feature deployment for Prison Professors. As we push toward making this the most ef...
New Year Momentum: Platform Improvements for January 2026
The first few days of the new year were spent pushing hard on website and platform improvements for Prison Professors. On January 1st, I focused heavily on debugging a frustrating issue where bold tex...
Building a Unified Platform: December 29–31, 2025 Website Sprint
Between December 29 and December 31, 2025, I focused on tightening the experience and credibility of Prison Professors' public website while strengthening its live connection to the Profiles platform....