Uses

My setup — home lab, tools, and things I reach for daily.

Home Lab

Plex Media Server Self-hosted media library for movies and TV. Running locally with a decent-sized library. Remote access when I'm traveling.

Home Assistant Home automation hub. Handles lighting, climate, presence detection, and anything that has a smart plug or Zigbee radio. Local-first, no cloud dependencies.

Local LLMs Running models locally for day-to-day AI work. Privacy-first — nothing sensitive leaves the machine. Useful for the kind of experimentation that adds up on API bills.

Development

Go & Python Primary languages day-to-day. Go for services, tooling, and anything performance-sensitive. Python for data work, automation, and quick scripts.

Kubernetes + Helm Production orchestration at work and in personal projects. Helm for packaging, ArgoCD for GitOps deployments.

Terraform Infrastructure as code. Everything reproducible, nothing clicked through a console.

Grafana + Prometheus Observability stack. Dashboards for everything — services, home lab metrics, Kafka monitoring. If it runs, it gets a dashboard.

Cloud

AWS EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch. Certified Solutions Architect + Security Specialty.

GCP GKE for Kubernetes workloads, BigQuery for analytics at scale, Cloud Functions for event-driven work.

Cloudflare Workers for edge compute, Pages for static hosting. This site runs on Workers. Good value for the performance you get.