I Deploy Infrastructure During Air Raids. 90 Seconds to Shelter. My Setup.

The siren means I have 90 seconds. The pipeline is running. Production is updating. And I need to get to the shelter. This is not a movie. This is my Tuesday. The setup that keeps me online through all of it: Starlink as primary internet. UPS gives 12 minutes of backup power during blackouts. Mobile hotspot as failback. A powerbank charging in the corner - always - because when the grid goes down, and it does every single week, clients in California still need their infrastructure running. A typical day: 9 AM stand-up with the team in Germany. 11 AM air raid alert, 40 minutes in the shelter with the laptop on my knees reviewing pull requests. 2 PM deploy to staging. 4 PM power out, switch to Starlink. 6 PM another alert. Between all that - same Terraform, same pipelines, same deadlines as everyone else. Everything I build is async. No process depends on me being online at a specific moment. Clients get status updates before they ask. Every estimate gets buffered 2x because an alert might hit. The workflow is designed to survive interruption - not because of paranoia, but because the environment demands it. Recruiters call Ukraine a risk. But I manage 62 Azure subscriptions,…