Systems, networks and cybersecurity portfolio

Morgan Mathis

IT student in a Professional Degree MRIT ASR, focused on systems administration, networks, monitoring and cybersecurity.

I operate a 13-VM home lab as a production-like environment: Proxmox virtualization, redundant AdGuard Home + Unbound DNS, NPMplus reverse proxy, Grafana monitoring, Loki logs, PBS backups, CrowdSec/Cowrie security and Outline documentation.

Left front view of the personal home lab rack with Proxmox server, Grafana wallboard, Synology NAS and Eaton UPS.
13 production VMs
12+ public services
50/50 Prometheus targets UP
Daily PBS backups
Segmented VLANs
Home Assistant
99% infrastructure compliance

profile

Profile

A consistent technical path focused on operations.

Consistent path from digital systems to BTS SIO SISR and a Professional Degree MRIT ASR.

Practice focused on real operations: maintenance, monitoring, logs, backups, network segmentation, SSH/UFW/Fail2ban hardening and web security.

Goal: administer reliable, measurable, automated, documented and secure infrastructure.

skills

Key Skills

Skills presented through operational usage.

Systems

Debian Linux and Windows Server administration, Docker, Bash, PowerShell, maintenance and diagnostics.

DebianWindows ServerDockerBash

Networks

VLAN segmentation, DNS/DHCP, UniFi, VPN, reverse proxy and controlled publication.

VLANUniFiVPNNPMplus

Monitoring

Dashboards, metrics, logs, ntfy alerting, Blackbox Exporter and SNMP Exporter.

GrafanaPrometheusLokintfy

Cybersecurity

Hardening, TLS, MFA, CrowdSec, Fail2ban, UFW and Cowrie honeypot.

CrowdSecFail2banUFWCowrie

home lab

Infrastructure & Home Lab

A continuous operations environment, not a simple demo lab.

Left front view of the personal home lab rack with Proxmox server, Grafana wallboard, Synology NAS and Eaton UPS.

The Home Lab is used as a continuous operations environment: virtualization, self-hosted services, monitoring, backups, technical documentation, security and local smart home integration.

Proxmox VEUniFi / VLAN / DMZ / IoT / Guest / VPNAdGuard Home / Unbound / SyncGrafana / Prometheus / Loki / BlackboxPBS + Synology NAS + verify jobsOutlineApache GuacamoleHome AssistantCrowdSec / CowrieNetAlertX

projects

Recent Projects

The most representative projects from the current operating environment.

Monitored Home Lab

Proxmox infrastructure operated as a production-like environment.

ProxmoxPBSUniFi

Grafana observability

Metrics, logs, availability checks, alerts and a rack-integrated wallboard.

GrafanaPrometheusLoki

Redundant DNS

Redundant DNS with AdGuard Home, Unbound and automatic synchronization.

AdGuard HomeUnboundSync

Public portfolio + SEO

Bilingual Next.js website with canonical URLs, hreflang, sitemap and Open Graph.

Next.jsSEOTLS

Home Assistant Smart Home

Local smart home with Matter, Zigbee, isolated IoT network and automations.

Home AssistantMatterZigbee

Self-hosted toolbox

IT-Tools, Stirling PDF, VERT, Pingvin Share, Password Pusher, Excalidraw and Outline.

DockerNPMplusDebian

99% infrastructure compliance

Outline knowledge base for procedures, runbooks, architecture and decisions.

OutlineRunbooksOperations

stack

Technical Stack

Infrastructure

Proxmox VEUniFi Cloud Gateway FiberSynology NASProxmox Backup ServerDebian Linux

Observability

GrafanaPrometheusLokiBlackbox ExporterSNMP ExporterntfyNetAlertX

Services

VaultwardenOutlineIT-ToolsStirling PDFVERTPingvin SharePassword PusherExcalidrawHome Assistant

Security

NPMplusCrowdSecFail2banUFWCowrie HoneypotTLSMFAAdGuard HomeUnbound