Building expertise in SysOps, cloud & systems automation

Automating systems-

where chaos becomes order

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About me

Passionate about automating reliable, scalable infrastructure

I am a SysOps engineer with 5+ years of experience automating and managing enterprise infrastructure. Grounded in a strong systems and network administration background, I specialize in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerization, and cloud infrastructure, with a focus on building reliable, scalable systems that ensure business continuity.

When I am not automating deployments, you will find me exploring new SysOps tooling, contributing to open source infrastructure projects, or sharing knowledge with the IT community through documentation and mentoring.

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Projects

Featured work and experiments

OCI-Based Home Lab

OCI-Based Home Lab

Online

Segmented OCI VCN with public/private subnets, Dockerized services behind an NGINX reverse proxy, and centralized monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.

OCI Docker NGINX Prometheus
Mail Server Deployment and Hardening

Mail Server

Online

Self-hosted mail server built with Postfix, Dovecot, and Rspamd, secured with Fail2Ban, firewalld, and full SPF/DKIM/DMARC authentication.

Postfix Dovecot Rspamd Fail2Ban
DNS Server

DNS Server

On-Prem

Primary and secondary BIND9 DNS servers on Ubuntu with forward/reverse zones, automatic zone sync, and NIC teaming for high availability.

BIND9 DNS Ansible Ubuntu

Get in touch

Let's build something amazing together

I am always interested in new opportunities and exciting projects. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi, I will get back to you!

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Dev Notice

This portfolio is under development so don't judge :( Most of the stuff is dummy — come back after a week!