I'm a systems technician learning DevOps, with a background in data center operations and hands-on biomedical equipment maintenance. My day job involves device-level troubleshooting and documentation across complex medical systems — my nights and weekends are spent experimenting in my homelab. I like building things that are reliable, automated, and well-documented — and then breaking them to see what happens.

My homelab is my primary learning environment. It runs production-grade services on consumer hardware and is where I put everything into practice.

Network & Security

• pfSense firewall handling DHCP, DNS resolver, OpenVPN, and DDNS
• VLAN segmentation isolating IoT devices (7+) and IP cameras (5) from the main network
• Omada SDN managing a PoE switch and two wireless APs
• Pi-hole for network-wide DNS filtering

Proxmox Node

• Dedicated to stable, set-and-forget services
• VM: Home Assistant OS for home automation
• LXC: Caddy reverse proxy with SSL termination
• LXC: Omada SDN controller
• LXC: Uptime Kuma for service monitoring

Debian Server (headless, primary workhorse)

• Docker services: Frigate NVR (with Coral TPU for local ML inference), Jellyfin media server
• 5-camera surveillance system with local AI object detection — no cloud required
• Self-hosted file storage via SMB; exploring offline sync solutions (Syncthing/Nextcloud)

Coming Soon

• k3s Kubernetes cluster on the Debian server
• Terraform for infrastructure provisioning
• Migrating key services to k8s manifests

Infrastructure & Virtualization Proxmox Linux (Debian/Ubuntu) pfSense Docker LXC

Networking VLANs DNS DHCP OpenVPN Reverse Proxy Omada SDN

Monitoring & Automation Uptime Kuma Home Assistant Caddy Frigate

Currently Learning AWS (Solutions Architect Associate — in progress) Kubernetes / k3s Terraform

• proxmox-ssl-setup — Automated SSL certificate management for Proxmox VE using Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare.
• patch_proxmox_nosub — Removes the Proxmox subscription nag for homelab use
• Coral_TPU_Install — Setup guide for Google Coral TPU with Frigate NVR on Debian
• usb_mount_and_share — Bash script for mounting a USB HDD or block device and sharing it via Samba

Pursuing a remote DevOps/Infrastructure role where I can bring real-world systems experience to a team that values reliability and automation. When I'm not developing in the lab, I'm probably hosting a Valheim server for friends.

Des Moines, IA | Open to remote