Available for opportunities

Infrastructure
& Network Engineer

Building and managing resilient IT infrastructure, self-hosted services, and enterprise-grade homelab environments. Passionate about network security, virtualization, and automation.

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About Me

Driven by curiosity,
powered by infrastructure.

I'm an IT professional with deep experience in network architecture, virtualization, and systems administration. I design, deploy, and maintain complex infrastructure environments — from enterprise firewalls and VPN mesh networks to containerized application stacks.

My homelab serves as both a production environment and a testing ground, running dozens of services across multiple physical locations with full monitoring, security hardening, and automated failover.

50+
Services Running
24/7
Monitoring
3
Physical Sites
99.9%
Uptime Target
Expertise

What I work with.

🔒

Network Security

Firewall management, IDS/IPS deployment, VLAN segmentation, VPN architecture, and threat monitoring.

pfSense Suricata pfBlockerNG WireGuard
🖥️

Virtualization

Hypervisor management, container orchestration, VM lifecycle automation, and resource optimization.

Proxmox VE Docker LXC Portainer
🌐

DNS & Networking

Multi-tier DNS with ad-blocking, reverse proxy configuration, DDNS, and hybrid access routing.

Technitium Cloudflare Nginx Proxy Tailscale
📊

Monitoring & Automation

Infrastructure health checks, uptime monitoring, automated alerting, and custom scripting.

Uptime Kuma Grafana Bash Telegram Bots
💾

Storage & Backup

NAS administration, RAID management, backup strategies, and cross-site data replication.

Synology WD NAS Duplicati Syncthing
🛡️

Remote Access

Mesh VPN deployment, remote management, secure tunneling, and multi-site connectivity.

MeshCentral Guacamole RustDesk Cloudflared
Projects

Things I've built.

01

Multi-Site Homelab Network

Enterprise-grade network spanning multiple physical locations with VLAN segmentation, centralized firewall management, and mesh VPN connectivity. Full monitoring with custom health check scripts and automated failover.

Proxmox pfSense Tailscale Docker
● Active
02

Network Security Stack

Comprehensive security infrastructure including IDS/IPS, threat intelligence feeds, DNS-level ad blocking, honeypot deployment, and automated log analysis with alerting.

Suricata pfBlockerNG OpenCanary Technitium
● Active
03

Self-Hosted Media Platform

Full media ecosystem with hardware-accelerated transcoding, IPTV management, music streaming, and automated content organization across multiple endpoints.

Jellyfin Plex Navidrome Dispatcharr
● Active
04

Infrastructure Monitoring System

Custom network health check framework with tiered monitoring, multi-host resource tracking, Telegram alerting, and automated remediation scripts.

Bash Uptime Kuma Grafana Telegram API
● Active
Quick Glance

System overview.

ficoadmin@pickford-network ~ network-check
network-check --summary

Internet: ✅ Online
DNS (3-Tier): ✅ All Healthy
Firewall: ✅ pfSense + Suricata Active
Containers: ✅ 50+ Running
Tunnels: ✅ 4/4 Cloudflare Connectors
Tailscale: ✅ 14 Nodes Connected
Honeypot: ✅ Quiet (0 alerts)

uptime
All systems operational. No incidents.
Contact

Let's connect.

I'm always interested in discussing infrastructure challenges, homelab builds, or new opportunities. Whether you have a project in mind or just want to talk tech, feel free to reach out.