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Marshmellow the cat

AK

Network Architect  •  Infrastructure Engineer  •  Automation Engineer  •  Homelab Enthusiast

Automation powered Enterprise architecture standards Infrastructure as code active Security hardened CrowdSec IDS/IPS active 99.9 percent uptime

System Overview

I build reliable, secure, and automated systems across enterprise infrastructure and containerized environments. My approach combines production-grade observability, CI/CD practices, and isolation by design so services remain resilient as they scale.

Technical Arsenal

🌐 Networking

pfSense firewall
Active VLAN segmentation
VPN and WireGuard
Strict firewall management

🤖 Automation & IaC

Terraform
Ansible
Python and Bash

🐳 Infrastructure

Docker
Dockhand
Proxmox and ESXi virtualization

⚙️ DevSecOps

Self-hosted Gitea
GitHub cloud source control

🔐 Security & Identity

Authentik IAM and SSO MFA enforced
OIDC and SAML enabled SSL and TLS hardened

📊 Observability

Grafana Prometheus
InfluxDB Telegraf

🏠 Homelab Blueprint

My private lab is the R&D environment for my professional work—a place to test configurations before they reach production.

  • Automation first: Version-controlled Ansible playbooks and Terraform manifests manage server state and deployments.
  • Hardened security: pfSense at the edge, strict inter-VLAN routing, local recursive DNS with Unbound, and automated TLS certificate rotation.
  • Production-at-home observability: Centralized monitoring built around a 99.9% uptime standard.

🏗️ Homelab Stack

Tools, services, and projects powering KDN Lab.

pfSense firewall Active VLAN segmentation Unbound recursive DNS Terraform infrastructure as code Ansible configuration management Docker containerization Dockhand container management Proxmox and ESXi virtualization WireGuard VPN CrowdSec IDS and IPS Authentik IAM and SSO MFA enforced OIDC and SAML enabled SSL and TLS hardened Self-hosted Gitea GitHub cloud source control Automated CI and CD Automated TLS certificate rotation Grafana observability Prometheus monitoring InfluxDB time series database Telegraf metrics

🎵 Beyond the Terminal

Ableton Live 11 Studio One 6 Roland TR-808 Roland TR-909 Roland Boutique series Analog and digital drum machines Synthesizers and sound design

When I’m not configuring subnets, I’m at The Sound Booth, exploring audio engineering, studio automation, and generative audio-visual systems.

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  1. kdn-observability-stack kdn-observability-stack Public

    Production-grade Grafana dashboards for a 10+ node Proxmox lab, featuring CrowdSec, UniFi, and GitOps monitoring. Sanitized for public distribution.

  2. cups-prometheus-exporter cups-prometheus-exporter Public

    Prometheus exporter for CUPS print server: exposes printer status, job counts, and scheduler health as metrics. Docker-ready with Grafana dashboard support.

    Python 2

  3. dotfiles dotfiles Public

    The core essentials of my CLI workflow. Contains custom shell aliases for speed, a clean Vim configuration, and a persistent Tmux environment.

    Vim Script

  4. GoBot GoBot Public

    Extensible Go IRC bot with TLS/SASL, multi-network support, plugins, games, reminders, URL titles, and Prometheus metrics.

    Go

  5. KDN-Cloud/ops-ref KDN-Cloud/ops-ref Public

    Quick-reference sheets for git, vim, bash, docker, and beyond.

    1

  6. cv-infra cv-infra Public

    Infrastructure-as-Code for serving my CV from Cloudflare R2 through an edge-deployed Worker. Mirrored from an internally hosted Gitea instance.

    JavaScript 1