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Systems administrator. Curious by default.Based in Los Angeles. I keep Linux infrastructure running for a living. At home I wire up sensors, run local models and build small browser games.
Hardware around the house that reports to this site around the clock. Each one has its own dashboard with history.
Two 100 W panels in parallel feed a Victron SmartSolar MPPT 75/15. A Raspberry Pi 4 reads the charger's encrypted BLE broadcasts, decodes them in Python, and posts readings to a PHP/MySQL backend every minute.
Panel watts, battery voltage, charge state and daily yield.
Open the solar dashboardSoil moisture and temperature from a probe in the garden.
Open the soil dashboardContinuous fridge temperature, so a failing compressor shows up before the food does.
Open the fridge dashboardA small screen. A hands-on project.
Making everyday home controls my own.
A custom touchscreen that brings home controls and useful information together. Built around an ESP32, with a room-by-room lighting interface and an at-a-glance dashboard.
An ongoing hardware and software project, with the interface and integrations still evolving.
Ten-plus years running Linux in production, from legacy NIS and Kerberos to containers and GPU servers.
Production server fleets, legacy and modern side by side. Shared storage, authentication and home directories that just work.
Ubuntu, openSUSE, RHEL, NFS, autofs, NIS, Kerberos, LDAP
The services everyone notices only when they break.
Postfix, Dovecot, BIND, Apache
Incident response, vulnerability scanning and hardening, including cleaning up a cryptominer compromise.
Qualys, ClamAV, SSH hardening, firewalls
VLANs, policy-based routing, dual-gateway setups and multi-subnet environments.
EdgeRouter, pfSense, UniFi, DNS, DHCP
VM platforms with backups that get tested, plus shared GPU research servers.
VMware, Proxmox, Veeam, Docker, KVM
Admin tooling, account management and reporting, including keeping a long-lived Perl stack healthy.
Bash, Python, Perl, Ansible, cron
16 browser games, mostly written with help from local language models. Everything runs in the browser, no install.
Everything runs on my own hardware: no cloud, no subscriptions. I use it for video generation, voice synthesis, a private search engine and the models that helped write the games above.
The two widgets below are teaching toys, not real models. They show the shape of the idea.
Type something, then generate. The next-word odds are canned.
Raise the input or add noise and watch each layer respond.
Questions about Linux infrastructure, GPU and local-AI setups, or any of the projects here are welcome.
Off the clock I fly RC: an Eachine P-51D warbird and FPV quads I build and tune myself.