Junior IT Technician & Homelabbing Enthusiast
I’m a junior IT technician with a strong interest in homelabbing, networking, and hands-on learning. I enjoy building and managing my own systems to better understand how real-world infrastructure works — from virtual machines and self-hosted services to networking and storage solutions. Outside of day-to-day IT work, I spend much of my time experimenting in my homelab, documenting what I learn, and continuously improving my technical skills. I’m driven by curiosity, problem-solving, and the satisfaction that comes from understanding how things work under the hood.
Networking Skills
I build and manage home and small-scale networks with a focus on reliability, performance, and learning how modern networks operate. I enjoy configuring routers and switches, managing traffic flow, and troubleshooting issues while gradually expanding my knowledge of more advanced networking concepts.
Homelab Projects
I build and maintain a personal homelab to explore virtualisation, self-hosting, and infrastructure management. I use it to run services, test configurations, and learn by building, breaking, and improving real systems in a controlled environment.
Self-hosted Services
I set up and manage self-hosted services to better understand how applications run, are maintained, and stay reliable over time. I use these services in my own environment while learning about updates, backups, and day-to-day system management.
Cloud & Backup Fundamentals
I use cloud services as a secondary backup layer alongside local and NAS storage. This helps me learn practical backup strategies, redundancy, and how to protect data without relying on a single system.
Security Awareness & Hardening
I focus on basic security awareness and system hardening across my projects. This includes keeping systems updated, limiting access, using strong authentication, and thinking carefully about exposure when services are reachable over a network or remotely. My goal is to build safer habits while learning how real-world systems are protected.
Thinking & Continuous Learning
I'm deeply interested in how devices, services, and networks interact with each other under the hood. I enjoy learning how data flows between systems and continuously improving my setup as my understanding grows, making thoughtful changes without overcomplicating what already works.