Detailed project case studies with measured outcomes — from infrastructure automation to enterprise platform design.
How I designed and built an enterprise-grade infrastructure management platform with 8 custom API servers and 336 integrated tools — replacing $75K–$109K in commercial software with a $240/year open-source stack and measuring a 7-10x productivity improvement across 48 tracked sessions.
I built an API-first architecture exposing 305 tools across NetBox, Proxmox, UniFi, pfSense, and more — enabling unified infrastructure management through 7 custom integration servers. Here's how an API-first approach changed the way I operate a network.
I designed an enterprise-grade Network Access Control system for a 56-device lab environment with five security zones, automated device approval, and default-deny enforcement using pfSense, NetBox, and Ansible.
I built a NetBox-to-Naemon automation pipeline that monitors 65 hosts with zero manual configuration. When a device is updated in the inventory, monitoring reconfigures itself in 5-10 seconds — infrastructure as code in practice.
How I deployed enterprise-grade centralized logging across 13 hosts in 48 hours using Loki, Grafana, and Ansible — replacing a solution that would cost $5,000+ annually with commercial alternatives.
We replaced dead-zone cellular with 2+ Gbps Starlink on a riverboat fleet for 75% less than traditional satellite.
How I solved a $1.2M annual chargeback crisis by navigating vendor politics and convincing my CFO to change banks.