Homelab Platform (GitOps)
49 containers in 12 Compose stacks on a self-hosted Unraid server, deployed from Git with secrets kept out of the repo, health checks on every service and weekly off-box backups.
- Docker
- Compose
- Unraid
- Git
- GitHub Actions
Infrastructure, Automation & Observability
I build platforms that run themselves, and prove it with data.
I design, automate and operate self-hosted infrastructure end to end: containers deployed from Git, network and DNS as code, single sign-on in front of every admin tool, and monitoring that tells me about a problem before the people using it do.
- 22 projects
- 49 containers in production
- 50 automated health checks
Live from the lab
These projects run in production for friends and family. Current numbers from the public status feed:
- Players online
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- Game servers up
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- Game platforms
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Full status page ↗Featured case studies
The problem, the architecture, the decisions, and how it turned out.
Multi-Protocol Player Telemetry
A dependency-free Python collector that asks 12 game servers how many people are playing, over four binary protocols and four JSON APIs. It publishes counts-only JSON for a public page, richer detail for internal dashboards and Prometheus metrics for 90 days of history.
- Python
- Sockets
- Prometheus
- VictoriaMetrics
Corellia: Phantasy Star Online Server Platform
A three-instance private server platform (production, canary and legacy) for Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst, migrated from Tethealla to newserv with staged rollouts, account and character migration between server generations, and imports from another community server.
- C++
- Python
- Django
- Docker
- MySQL
- GitHub Actions
What I work on
Platform & Infrastructure as Code
Everything is declared in Git and applied by script: containers, network, DNS and images. Rebuilds are repeatable and every change is reviewable.
4 projects →Observability & Telemetry
Custom collectors, health checks and time-series history make the platform's state visible at a glance, both live and over 90 days.
4 projects →Identity, Edge & Security
Defense in depth: SSO with group-based access on every admin surface, a hardened edge and least-privilege automation tokens.
3 projects →CI/CD & Container Supply Chain
Images are built, published and refreshed automatically, with upstream drift caught before it becomes an outage.
3 projects →AI & Simulation
Local-first AI: LLM-guided agents over deterministic engines, running on private hardware.
2 projects →Game Platform Engineering
Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst revived as a modern platform on newserv, with staged rollouts, data migrations, a player portal and native client patches.
3 projects →Multiplayer Hosting & Operations
Production-style operations for real users: whitelists, backups, graceful shutdowns, performance logging and self-service join guides.
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