Your infrastructure, run like my own.
Linux servers, networks and backups for companies of 10 to 100 people: kept in code, monitored, with restores actually tested.
- in infrastructure
- 8+ years
- servers
- 250+
- GPU clusters
- A100, H100
The rack at home
Where I try things before they reach production. It all comes back from one git repository, and the backup server is off most of the day. Take the homelab tour
- Proxmox hosts
- 3
- Kubernetes cluster
- 1
- Rebuilt from git
- ~35 min
- At the wall
- 65 W
Career
Hundreds of servers set up and run along the way, from Linux and Puppet at Netex to GPU clusters on InfiniBand today.
- HPC Systems Administrator Forvia 2022–now
- Cyber Security Engineer Atos IT Solutions 2020–2022
- Systems Administrator Netex Romania 2018–2020
Featured project
SCADA platform
Ignition with gateway redundancy and a SQL Server Historian.
Also: Dolphost, web hosting (2022–2024) · Websites & servers for small clients · CCNA, 2020 (the journey)
Latest notes
Spinning Down SAS Disks
SAS drives ignore ATA standby and the usual tools quietly stop working on them. What actually parks them, and a script that keeps them parked.
Offsite Backup to Oracle Cloud with restic
An encrypted offsite backup on an Oracle Cloud Always Free instance, no dependencies — in place of a HyperBackup setup that needed a working DSM to restore.
One Identity Provider for Everything
Authentik on Oracle Cloud in place of scattered logins: Google login everywhere, proxy auth for Guacamole, OAuth2 for Portainer, a K8s outpost for the cluster.
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