Who am I
Infrastructure specialist with 10+ years in Linux and DevOps.
German-Canadian, based in Alberta.
Building things - Having fun
I work with clusters, monitoring stacks, network architecture, and automation.
This page documents projects in my home lab and practical infrastructure guides.
Experience areas
- Linux server administration
- Kubernetes tinkering
- Monitoring and alerting
- Database stuff
- Networking (VLANs, firewalls, VPN)
- Infrastructure from code
- CI/CD pipelines
- Backup and recovery
Side project
thesada - IoT monitoring on ESP32. Custom C++, MQTT over TLS, cellular failover, Lua scripting, web dashboard. Deployed and running 24/7 on a rural property.
ESP32 C++ MQTT Cellular PlatformIO
Check out the blog for infrastructure guides and tutorials.