Automation & Custom Tools
Small scripts, utilities, and applications that eliminate repetitive work and solve specific problems.
Things I Can Help With
I enjoy solving technical problems, whether that's building something new, fixing something old, or figuring out why something refuses to work in the first place.
From cloud infrastructure and automation to custom tools and everyday IT headaches, I prefer practical solutions over buzzwords. If the job is too small for a consulting firm, or you just need someone to finally fix the printer, I'd be happy to take a look.
Infrastructure & Systems
Linux, Windows, networking, virtualization, cloud, self-hosting, and keeping systems running reliably.
Technical Problem Solving
Troubleshooting, research, and tackling the kinds of technical problems that don't come with a straightforward answer.
Professional Projects
A few examples from professional work.
Some details have been left out to respect the people and companies I worked with.
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Electronic Health Record System
Designed and implemented a web-based electronic health record system for therapists, including patient management, billing integration, and hosting infrastructure. Worked across the full stack from application development to deployment and healthcare data compliance.
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Cloud Lab Automation
Built tooling to automate the provisioning and management of Azure-based training environments, enabling self-paced learners to access cloud labs without exposing internal Azure resources. Also supported students and improved classroom deployment workflows.
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IoT Monitoring System
Designed embedded hardware and firmware for sensor systems used in assisted living environments, while also contributing to supporting infrastructure, compliance, and office IT. Developed custom communication protocols that significantly improved battery life and device range.
Personal Projects
A few things I’ve built.
Finding the Finger
A semantic-search experiment built around perennial philosophy.
Why? I wanted to see whether similarities across religious and philosophical texts could be explored computationally rather than discussed only in vibes.
Learned Embeddings, data pipelines, web scraping, semantic search, and the difficulty of turning philosophy into a data model.
CandidateChess.com
A chess-training tool focused on identifying candidate moves.
Why? I built it because I’m bad at middlegames and wanted something more targeted than solving random tactical puzzles.
Learned Distributed processing, chess-engine analysis, queue systems, and how expensive it is to analyze a lot of positions.
Homelab
A self-hosted infrastructure for experimenting with systems, networking, and automation.
Why? I built it because I wanted a place to experiment freely without worrying about breaking production systems—or paying cloud bills.
Learned Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, virtualization, self-hosting, and that operating systems is a skill you only really learn by running them.
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Azure Honeypot
A cloud-hosted honeypot that collects and visualizes intrusion attempts.
Why? I built it because I wanted to see what actually happens when an exposed system is left on the internet instead of just reading about it.
Learned Azure, Microsoft Sentinel, KQL, log analysis, and how noisy the internet really is.
Rejection Simulator
A deliberately soulless web toy that generates fake rejection emails.
Why? Built partly to understand how RimWorld assembles procedural descriptions, and partly as a questionable form of exposure therapy.
Learned Procedural text generation, browser interfaces, and algorithmic comedy.
DungeonMasterAssistant.com
A lightweight web app for running tabletop RPG sessions.
Why? I built it because the tools I was using were either bloated, slow, or tried to do everything except the few things I actually needed.
Learned Building focused user interfaces, optimizing for simplicity, and that small tools can be more valuable than feature-rich ones.
Skills
My go to toolkit for solving problems.
Systems and infrastructure
- Linux
- Windows Server
- Proxmox
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Azure
Security and networking
- Network security
- Microsoft Sentinel
- SIEM
- Firewalls
- Wireless systems
- Cisco
Automation and development
- Python
- PowerShell
- JavaScript
- C++
- FastAPI
- Django
- Next.js
- SQL
Contact
The best way to reach me is by email.