A place to try things.

I’m a technical support leader, not a software developer. This is where I follow my curiosity, use AI assistance to turn ideas into experiments, and learn by trying things. I bring the questions and judge what is useful; the tools help me explore further.

Infrastructure

A home lab where I explore how services fit together, what happens when something fails, and how to recover. Each experiment helps me ask better questions about the systems people rely on.

Personal exploration

Local AI experiments

Exploring where AI can help with everyday problems, how useful its answers are, and what I can learn by running models close to home.

Personal exploration

Systems that connect

Trying ways to make handoffs clearer and keep useful context from getting lost. I am interested in how people and tools can work together with less friction.

Personal exploration

Learning lab

Personal technology interests that make me better at my work.

My homelab gives me a controlled place to explore how systems behave when things change, fail, and recover. These are personal learning exercises. They help me build understanding alongside my professional experience in support.

Understanding change

I explore how to make changes repeatable and understand why a running system might drift from its intended setup. Kubernetes and GitOps give me a practical way to learn those lessons.

Asking better questions when things fail

I learn which signals help explain a problem and which just add noise. Logs, metrics, and traces become more tangible through tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.

Learning how to recover

I practice restoring backups, follow alerts, and write down what happened after a failure. Recovery exercises help me understand what dependable systems require.

Making thoughtful access decisions

I consider who needs access, what should stay private, and how to keep experiments contained. Encrypted configuration and access controls make those decisions concrete.

That personal experience makes me more curious and more useful at work. It helps me connect a customer question to the systems, signals, and people behind it.

The point of the hobby

Trying and failing is not a detour from learning. It is how I learn.

Home is the environment where I can explore freely, make mistakes safely, and follow an interesting problem until it makes sense.