About
Nexbee was built around a straightforward premise: growing businesses deserve technology that works, is understood, and stays that way — without requiring a dedicated internal IT department to sustain it.
How I work
Infrastructure with purpose
High availability, clean topology, no hand-waving. Every architectural decision has a reason and a consequence — both documented.
Access with intent
Identity-aware, auditable, least-privilege by default. Access is granted where it's needed and nowhere else.
Automation that's boring on purpose
Source-controlled, repeatable, and predictable. Infrastructure should fail loudly and rarely — not cleverly and constantly.
Systems that stay understandable
Complexity is debt. Everything I build is designed to be operated by someone other than the person who built it.
Behind the work
Nexbee is a small, intentionally focused operation, run by Braden Young — an infrastructure architect based in Ogden, Utah, with a background in building and operating systems for multi-site organizations.
Before founding Nexbee, Braden spent years designing and operating core infrastructure for growing businesses — founding internal IT departments, replacing legacy VPNs with zero-trust access, deploying high-availability virtualization clusters, and standing up operational tooling from observability to backups to phone systems. That work is documented in detail in the work section.
Earlier roles span operations management, CRM systems, analytics, and web platforms — a background that shapes how Nexbee approaches technology: as something that serves the business, not the other way around.
Credentials
University of Utah
Professional Education — Cybersecurity
February 2023 · 4.0 GPA
CompTIA Security+
Cybersecurity certification.
May 2023
Nexbee is not a large firm, and it's not trying to be. The goal is to be genuinely useful to a small number of businesses that need clear ownership of their technology — and to do that work well.
Hardware and software procurement are also available through reseller partnerships, so licensing and equipment don't become a separate headache during a migration.
If that sounds like a fit, start a conversation. Professional background also available on LinkedIn.