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Case studies and projects: infrastructure, platforms, networks, storage.

Private data center

HPE BladeSystem + 3PAR + tiered backup

16 HPE BL460c Gen9/Gen10 servers in C7000 chassis. HPE 3PAR 7400 storage, cold backups on ASUS Stor, Proxmox Backup Server for VMs. Zyxel, Eltex, MikroTik, and HPE switches. Home…

HPE C7000BL460c3PARHome Assistant
Infrastructure

Private Proxmox VE cloud

4 Dell PowerEdge / Supermicro nodes, 40+ VMs, HA, live migration, replication, Ceph Storage, centralized backup. Zero-downtime upgrades. SLA >99.99%.

ProxmoxHACeph
Platform

Kubernetes Enterprise (12 nodes)

3 masters + 9 workers. Calico, MetalLB, NGINX Ingress, Cert Manager, ArgoCD. Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry. 150+ containers, HPA/VPA, canary and blue/green.

K8sArgoCDObservability
Platform · Pet project

Self-hosted video conferencing on Kubernetes

Self-hosted Jitsi Meet in a production cluster: video conferences, WebRTC, TLS, Ingress, and resilient deployment. Used for consultations and team communication.

Jitsi MeetKubernetesWebRTCIngress
Platform · Open Source

Nginx Proxy Manager fork for Kubernetes

Custom NPM fork optimized for production Kubernetes: stable operation with 9+ replicas and HPA, QUIC (HTTP/3) support, GeoIP filtering, and targeted improvements for edge proxying…

NPMKubernetesHPAHTTP/3GeoIP
Network · Pet project

Clustered DNS on PowerDNS

Custom resilient DNS implementation: clustered PowerDNS, web UI for zones and records, distributed caching DNS proxies for low latency and authoritative node offload.

PowerDNSDNS clusterCache proxyWeb UI
Infrastructure · Pet project

Secure Mailcow mail server

Self-hosted corporate mail on Mailcow: SMTP/IMAP, web UI, TLS, anti-spam and anti-virus, DKIM/SPF/DMARC. Full control over domains, mailboxes, and delivery without external…

MailcowSMTPDKIMWebmail
Network / SAN

Internal network and SAN fabric

Mixed enterprise network: Spine-Leaf, BGP, OSPF, VXLAN/EVPN, ECMP, LACP, VRRP. Multi-provider load balancing, automatic failover. SAN: Fibre Channel, iSCSI, zoning, multipath. HPE…

SANFibre ChanneliSCSI
Storage

Ceph cluster

MON/OSD/MGR, CephFS, RBD, S3 RGW, erasure coding, geo-distribution. Dozens of TB, thousands of IOPS. Integration with K8s and Proxmox.

CephRBDRGW
Storage · Pet project

Cloud storage with web UI

Self-hosted file cloud on Kubernetes: web UI for upload and sync. Data replication to Ceph (CephFS / RGW), tiered backup to ASUS Stor and external cold storage. TLS, Ingress…

KubernetesCephTiered backupWeb UI
Databases

PostgreSQL / MySQL: tuning and HA clusters

Performance tuning, streaming/logical replication, Patroni and Galera clusters, pgBouncer, PITR. Monitoring, failover, and production database operations in high-load environments.

PostgreSQLPatroniReplicationTuning
DevOps

GitLab Enterprise Platform

GitLab HA, Runner Farm, Docker/K8s Executors, Container Registry, Package Registry. Fully automated CI/CD and GitOps.

GitLabCI/CDGitOps
DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, ArgoCD. New cluster in under 30 minutes. Auto-provisioning, upgrades, backup, full recovery from code.

TerraformAnsibleIaC
Web

Enterprise CRM

Customer base, financial accounting, tasks, Telegram/Email, REST API, roles and access control. PHP 8, PostgreSQL, Redis.

PHPCRMREST
Web

Complex web portal

Redis caching, load balancing, CDN, job queues, search via Elasticsearch.

RedisElasticsearchCDN
Web

Next-generation forum

Custom engine: topics, moderation, private messages, SEO, mobile app API, integrations with external services.

PHPAPISEO
Web

Multipurpose CMS

Modular architecture, page builder, templates, multilingual support, user management, REST API.

CMSREST
Web

Corporate blog engine

Multimedia, SEO tools, comments, caching, full-text search.

BlogSEO
Infrastructure

Linux Software Engineering

Monitoring daemons, backup services, auto-deploy, server management, log rotation, performance diagnostics. Bash and Python.

LinuxPythonBash
Infrastructure

Asterisk cluster

Full lifecycle: from scratch to a production-ready resilient telephony cluster with complete configuration.

AsteriskVoIPHA