System Engineer · Homelab Builder

Self-hosted
infrastructure,
end-to-end.

Hi, I'm Michal - I build and run my own homelab: three physical machines, a Kubernetes cluster, self-hosted apps, and everything wired together with Terraform and GitLab CI. It just runs. No cloud subscription needed.

99.9%
Uptime
11
Services
$0
Cloud Bill
System Status
live · session t+0:00:00
About

Systems & Philosophy.

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01.A

Break things.
Fix them properly.
Repeat.

I got into homelabbing because I wanted to actually understand how things work - not just use them. So I bought some used hardware and started breaking things. Now it's a proper three-node cluster that my whole household depends on.

No bootcamps, no guided courses. Just a problem, some docs, and enough stubbornness to get it working at 2am.

99.9%
Service Uptime
Uptime Kuma watches it
$0
Monthly Cloud Spend
self-hosted beats SaaS
Things I actually use ↻ HOVER TO PAUSE
Hardware

The Rack.

Three second-hand machines from eBay running everything I need.

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node-1 · lenovo U1
Ryzen 3 3200G · 16 GB · 4 TB ZFS pass-through
truenas grafana stack nextcloud
node-2 · dell latitude U2
i7-9850H · 32 GB · RKE2 control plane
gitlab rke2 master unifi
node-3 · dell sff U3
i5-8500 · 16 GB · 4 TB available
rke2 worker storage
router · mikrotik + pi U4
VLANs · firewall · pi-hole · tailscale exit node
vlan 10 vlan 11 doh
17%
dns blocked
· RACK_01 / HOMELAB POWER ON
Cluster Metrics live
CPU · 16 cores total 23%
Memory · 64 GB total 41%
ZFS pool · 4 TB 38%
Network · throughput 62 Mb/s
DNS Queries
12.4k
↑ today
Blocked
2.1k
341k blocklist
VMs Running
11
3 nodes
CI Pipelines
~100
past 30d
Core Architecture

Infrastructure Overview.

Click any card to see what's actually running and how it's set up.

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Resume

Work with me.

Mostly self-taught. Everything here I built and broke myself at least once.

Infrastructure

  • Proxmox VE (KVM/LXC)
  • TrueNAS / ZFS storage
  • Docker & Docker Compose
  • Linux (Ubuntu, Rocky)
  • Network segmentation (VLANs)

DevOps & Automation

  • Kubernetes (RKE2, k3s)
  • Ansible playbooks
  • Terraform (IaC)
  • GitLab CI/CD pipelines
  • Helm charts

Observability & Dev

  • Prometheus + Grafana
  • Loki / Mimir / Tempo
  • FastAPI + React + PostgreSQL
  • Cloudflare Tunnels
  • Tailscale / WireGuard
Resume

Full CV

The full picture - experience, skills,
and what I've shipped.

Download CV PDF · Updated 2026
Contact

Let's work
together.

Happy to chat about a role, a project,
or just compare homelab setups.