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Kevin Cox founded FOSSnix IT with a simple belief: micro businesses deserve infrastructure built with the same discipline as the enterprise—without the complexity, cost, or loss of control.

His career began supporting enterprise server platforms and validation environments within Intel’s platform laboratories in Hillsboro, Oregon. Working alongside engineers and technical program teams, Kevin provisioned, configured, and maintained bare-metal servers, operating systems, networking, and test environments that reflected real-world production infrastructure. That experience provided a firsthand understanding of how resilient systems are designed, deployed, documented, and maintained.

Kevin expanded that foundation through systems administration, managed services, Linux infrastructure, networking, virtualization, automation, and operational support. While the technologies changed, one lesson remained consistent: reliable infrastructure is built through thoughtful architecture, clear documentation, disciplined operations, and careful planning—not by accumulating more products or subscriptions.

That realization ultimately led to the creation of FOSSnix IT.

Kevin intentionally chose to build a micro business because he believes the values that inspire entrepreneurs to work independently—freedom, autonomy, and ownership—should extend to the technology that supports their businesses.

Too often, small organizations find themselves caught between fragile consumer tools and enterprise platforms that assume dedicated IT departments and budgets. FOSSnix IT exists to provide a practical alternative: secure, ownership-first infrastructure designed specifically for solo operators, family businesses, nonprofits, engineering firms, and other lean organizations that depend on technology every day.

Today, Kevin designs and operates the same type of infrastructure he recommends to clients. The FOSSnix environment is built around Linux, virtualization, open standards, automation, documentation, secure networking, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery—not because open source is an ideology, but because these technologies provide transparency, portability, and long-term control.

Every recommendation is evaluated through a single guiding principle:

Will this help the client maintain greater ownership, resilience, and control over their business five years from now than they have today?

That philosophy has become the foundation of FOSSnix IT and the company’s commitment to helping micro businesses achieve digital sovereignty—building technology that strengthens independence instead of quietly eroding it.