merox

Tested on my servers, trusted with yours.

I build, monitor and document servers, networks and backups, and I’m selective about the work I take on. What I deliver is built to last; AI is a tool I use, never the final word.

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Robert Melcher, Linux and infrastructure engineer in Timișoara. Working remotely across the EU.

The rack at home, drawn from the front: a Dell R730xd on top with a printer on it; under it, a Synology NAS beside three small Proxmox hosts stacked on a shelf; below, a UPS, a plant with glasses, and spares: a power supply and disks for the R730xd, SAS disks and a cable tester.65 W482 mm
My own, drawn from the front: three small Proxmox hosts, one Kubernetes cluster, and a backup server that is off most of the day. It comes back from a git repository in about 35 minutes. Take the homelab tour

Career

Hundreds of servers set up and run in eight years. Today, 250+ Linux and Windows servers and GPU clusters of A100s and H100s on InfiniBand; before that, firewalls and privileged access at Atos, and Linux with Puppet at Netex.

8 years

  1. Computer ScienceWest University of Timișoara
  2. Systems AdministratorNetex Romania
  3. CCNA — the journey
  4. Cyber Security EngineerAtos IT Solutions
  5. FounderDolphost
  6. HPC Systems AdministratorForvia
  7. Industrial SCADA platformClient project

The full CV, as a PDF

Latest notes

  1. Spinning Down SAS Disks
  2. Offsite Backup to Oracle Cloud with restic
  3. How AI Fed My Anxiety Without Asking
  4. One Identity Provider for Everything
  5. Five AI Agents Running My Infrastructure

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