15+
Years of systems engineering experience
About
Hi, I'm Steve.
Hi, I'm Steve.
Systems engineer,
smart home builder.
I've spent over 15 years designing infrastructure for higher education and healthcare — two industries where things actually have to work. IT Alchemy is where I apply that same thinking to the home.
Steve Davis · Systems Engineer
What this is
A site about smart homes that actually behave like systems.
Most smart home content is about the excitement of buying and installing. This site is about what comes after — stable networking, maintainable automations, and architecture decisions that don't paint you into a corner six months down the road.
By day I design and deploy infrastructure for institutions: conference rooms, lecture halls, enterprise networks. By night I'm doing the same thing at home, just with fewer stakeholders. I started the YouTube channel because I kept finding the same gap — good IT thinking, applied to residential setups. The channel is small but the community is sharp, and that's exactly what I was going for.
454
YouTube subscribers and growing
25.8k
Video views across the channel
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