Case studies
Projects explained through the problem solved.
Personal infrastructure and field experience: every project covers context, method, outcome and demonstrated skills. Technologies remain secondary.
Evidence → method → outcome
Six representative achievements
Published figures come from retained checks; sensitive operational information is intentionally excluded.
Infrastructure
Home Lab platform consolidation
2026A single-node Proxmox platform operated over time with 12 VMs and several specialized roles.
- Problem
- Make the actual running infrastructure match configurations that are understandable, reconstructible and controllable.
- Method
- Inventory dependencies and runtime state
- Compare each service with its Compose definition
- Pin images and validate without a global recreate
- Retain evidence, rollback and residual debt
- Outcome
- 49 services aligned across 26 canonical Compose projects, with 47 pinned external images and two explicit local builds.
- Demonstrated skills
- Audit • Linux • Virtualization • Containers • Change management
Proxmox VEDebianDocker ComposeGit
Monitoring
Diagnostic-focused observability
2026The platform needed to correlate availability, system state, public exposure, logs and backups.
- Problem
- Reduce noise, remove obsolete signals and prevent a misplaced probe from producing a falsely reassuring status.
- Method
- Map targets and signal ownership
- Remove duplicates and rules without a source
- Test Error, NoData and recovery states
- Measure availability, latency and capacity over 30 days
- Outcome
- 69 useful monitored targets, instrumented local proxy health and retained SLO budgets even when exhausted.
- Demonstrated skills
- Troubleshooting • Metrics • Alerting • Log analysis • SLO
PrometheusGrafanaLokiBlackboxntfy
Continuity
Backups and recovery planning
2026VM backups existed, but their presence alone did not demonstrate controlled recovery.
- Problem
- Prove coverage and verification, define dependencies, then clearly distinguish backup, recovery and high availability.
- Method
- Check tasks, retention and verification
- Classify services by criticality
- Define RTO, RPO and recovery order
- Document limits and exercises still required
- Outcome
- Expected eligible-workload coverage confirmed, recent verification evidenced, logical restores performed and DR documented without claiming unavailable high availability.
- Demonstrated skills
- Backup • Disaster recovery • Risk analysis • Documentation • Integrity checks
Proxmox Backup ServerZFSChecksumsRunbooks
Networking & security
Publishing and attack-surface reduction
2026Selected internal services need remote access without directly exposing their hosts.
- Problem
- Centralize publishing, retain consistent TLS termination and make public-path state measurable.
- Method
- Separate functional zones
- Publish through a central control point
- Add filtering, headers and detection
- Validate locally and externally
- Outcome
- Exposure limited to the reverse proxy, monitored path health and retained rollback procedures.
- Demonstrated skills
- Segmentation • Reverse proxy • TLS • Hardening • End-to-end validation
NPMplusCrowdSecDNSTLSVLAN
Field experience
Work-study systems and network operations
2025 — 2026At IP INFOPRO, I contribute to daily operations across user environments and network infrastructure.
- Problem
- Resolve incidents and requests while preserving permissions, policies, connectivity and service continuity.
- Method
- Qualify the request and impact
- Diagnose from endpoint to service
- Apply the smallest necessary change
- Verify the outcome and record the intervention
- Outcome
- Hands-on work with Windows Server, Active Directory, GPO, user rights, L1/L2 support, VLANs, VPNs, active equipment and backups.
- Demonstrated skills
- L1/L2 support • Windows administration • Networking • Communication • Operations
Windows ServerActive DirectoryGPOVLANVPN
Engineering practice
Documentation and repeatable controls
2026Decisions and operations needed to remain understandable after each change window.
- Problem
- Prevent validation, commands and rollback paths from depending on operator memory.
- Method
- Write prerequisites and success criteria
- Automate non-destructive controls
- Generate dated, hashed evidence
- Version declarative material without secrets
- Outcome
- A locally validated repository, integrity manifest, change log and runbooks connected to technical evidence.
- Demonstrated skills
- Documentation • Scripting • Git • Quality control • Traceability
BashPythonGitMarkdownSHA-256