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
Production Connector Test
This is a test entry confirming that the authenticated ChatGPT connector can publish content to this Prison Professors profile.
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...