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Building systems that work together.

I design, automate, and troubleshoot environments spanning software, virtualization, networking, storage, data, and home automation—then make the complicated parts manageable.

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Proxmox pfSense Cloudflare Docker Home Assistant PowerShell Python

Technical breadth without losing the details.

My work sits at the intersection of infrastructure, software, data, and operations. I enjoy understanding how every layer fits together—from physical hardware and network paths to applications, automations, and the people using them.

I bring enterprise infrastructure experience, software and scripting skills, graduate-level data work, and a hands-on lab where ideas are built and tested for real.

That combination has taught me to approach technical problems from both directions: zoom out far enough to design the right system, then zoom in far enough to find the one configuration, dependency, or assumption causing trouble.

This site brings together my professional interests, technical projects, Master's-program case studies, and the self-hosted infrastructure behind sherga.net.

Verified credentials.

Selected professional certifications and digital credentials, linked directly to the issuing platforms for independent verification.

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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Verified Microsoft Azure Fundamentals credential earned through exam AZ-900, linked to the official Microsoft Learn record.

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Selected projects.

Practical systems built to solve real problems, with operational tradeoffs and failure modes treated as part of the design.

01 / PLATFORM

Virtualization and storage platform

A Proxmox environment hosting virtual machines and Linux containers, backed by ZFS storage, GPU-enabled workloads, centralized backups, and service-specific mount design.

Proxmox VEZFSLXCPBS
02 / NETWORK

Segmented and securely published network

A pfSense-centered network with VLAN isolation, internal DNS, WireGuard and Tailscale access, HAProxy routing, automated certificates, and Cloudflare-proxied services.

pfSenseVLANsHAProxyWireGuard
03 / AUTOMATION

Home automation and local intelligence

A dedicated Home Assistant system coordinating cameras, sensors, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, MQTT, media, presence, and local voice and AI experiments.

Home AssistantFrigateMQTTLocal AI
04 / TOOLING

Operational scripting and workflow automation

PowerShell, shell, and Python tooling for remote inventory collection, backups, media processing, bulk data handling, system migration, and repeatable administration.

PowerShellPythonBashAutomation

Inside my homelab

A small production environment, built at home.

The lab is designed around explicit trust boundaries, isolated workloads, resilient storage, secure remote access, observability, and recoverability—not just a pile of applications.

3network security zones
2.5 GbEprimary network backbone
~48 TBtotal home storage, including ~16 TB mirrored ZFS
GPUaccelerated media and AI workloads
Cloudflare edge

Public DNS, TLS, proxying, email routing, and protected access terminate at the edge before traffic reaches the lab.

Technology stack.

The tools matter less than how they are combined, but this is the working set behind the projects shown here.

Infrastructure

Compute and storage

Virtualization, workload isolation, persistent storage, backups, and hardware acceleration.

Proxmox VELXCDockerZFSPBSNVIDIA
Networking

Routing and secure access

Segmentation, internal service discovery, encrypted access, certificate automation, and edge publishing.

pfSenseHAProxyCloudflareWireGuardTailscaleUnbound
Automation

Home and operations

Event-driven automation, cameras, messaging, local protocols, monitoring, and service orchestration.

Home AssistantFrigateMQTTZigbeeZ-WaveMatter
Engineering

Scripting and integration

Repeatable administration, data handling, APIs, deployment workflows, and glue code.

PowerShellPythonBashJavaScriptGitHub ActionsREST APIs
Data

Analysis and applications

Exploration, statistical modeling, visualization, reporting, and interactive analytical applications.

Rggplot2ShinySQLRegressionEDA
Operations

Security and reliability

Least exposure, segmented trust, monitoring, backup validation, and troubleshooting across layers.

TLSVLANsSnapshotsSyslogHealth checksRecovery

Graduate data case studies.

Original work from my Master's program, covering exploratory analysis, statistical modeling, and interactive applications.

CASE STUDY 01

Beer and Breweries

Exploratory data analysis, statistical comparisons, geographic trends, data wrangling, visualization, and an interactive R Shiny application built from U.S. beer and brewery datasets.

Rggplot2StatisticsShiny
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CASE STUDY 02

Employee Attrition and Income Modeling

Employee-data analysis focused on attrition drivers, job-role trends, Naïve Bayes classification, and regression modeling for monthly income.

RNaïve BayesRegressionEDA
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Lab access.

A launch point for selected self-hosted services. Each application retains its own authentication and access controls; administrative interfaces remain private.

Available

Home Assistant

Automation, device control, dashboards, cameras, energy, and household integrations.

Open service
Available

File Browser

Authenticated access to shared files and selected homelab storage.

Open service
Private

Proxmox

Virtualization management is intentionally restricted to trusted local and VPN connections.

Private

Network administration

Firewall, switching, storage, and infrastructure management remain off the public edge.

Get in touch

Let's talk systems.

For professional opportunities, technical collaboration, or a good infrastructure rabbit hole, email is the best place to reach me.

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