My Home Lab Journey & Professional Portfolio

Welcome to my Github for building, breaking, and learning!

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My Github repository serves as my professional showcase, centered around my ongoing Homelab Projects.

By maintaining my Github repository as a living sandbox it allows me to utilize my homelab as a test bench for maintaining and developing skills from documentation to device setups through advanced configuration and automation scripting.

Key Areas of Expertise Demonstrated:

I use my homelab to document and practice core skills, including:

• Platform Engineering: Bare-metal virtualization and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Networking & Security: Network configuration, segmentation (VLANs), and firewall management.
• Cloud & Hybrid Integration: Configuring seamless connections and services with public cloud providers.
• System Automation: Creating reliable solutions for provisioning, configuration, and maintenance.

The creation of the configuration files, scripts, and documentation pages here demonstrates my ability to build, manage, and secure IT environments.

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What You'll Find Here:

• System Administration: (Linux/Windows)
• Networking: Setup and configurations of networking devices.
• Network Diagrams: Documentation on VLANs, firewall rules, VPN setup, etc...
• Project Deep-Dives: Case studies on deploying services such as Troubleshooting, Wireshark/Tshark, Proxmox, Hyper-V, Self-hosting, and Protocols e.g. sip/rtp, to name a few.
• Certification Journey: What I used to help me pass the JNCIA and CCNA exams.

This documentation directly demonstrates my expertise in Networking (VoIP & Data), Troubleshooting, Virtualization, and Documentation. Feel free to explore my setup and the code behind it!

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Dive In: Labs and Configurations

Certifications

Juniper JNCIA This repo describes the resources I used to achieve my JNCIA certification.
Cisco CCNA This repo describes the resources I used to achieve my CCNA certification.

Documents

Interview Questions Directory of Networking Questions.
Basic Networking Directory of General Networking guides.
CCNA Study Directory of CCNA study documents.
Cheat Sheets A repo where I keep all my cheet sheets.
Command Line A repo where you can find PDFs of vendor CLI.
Home Network Repo where I document my home network.
Routing Protocols Documentation for major routing protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, and RIP.
SD WAN Resources covering modern software-defined networking architecture.
Security & Firewalls Notes and labs related to Firewalls, and general security analysis.
Core service Detailed guides and configurations for core network services and protocols.
Switching & VLANs Materials covering layer 2 switching concepts
Troubleshooting Directory of troubleshopoting guides.

Google APP Scripts

Google App Script DB In this project, I use Google APP Script to simulate a database.

Networking

Home Network read about the Evolution of my Home Network.

System Administration

Kubernetes Home Lab Planning Kubernetes on Mini PCs: Planning My Home Lab Cluster
WMIC Add WMIC back into Win 11

Ubiquiti

Ubiquiti Community Resources A few sites for help with Ubiquiti products.

Wireshark & tshark

PCAP Search Scripts written in BASH and PYTHON that will search through many .pcap files for a DID.