Building secure, beautiful, and functional digital experiences from my homelab to the cloud.
Hi, I’m Afendi — a technologist, tinkerer, and trusted backbone of IT operations. With over 17 years of hands-on experience, I specialize in crafting secure, resilient, and efficient systems that quietly keep the world running. Whether it’s maintaining seamless Zoom experiences or building robust homelab environments, I thrive at the intersection of engineering precision and practical problem-solving.
I’ve played many roles across my IT journey: network engineer, disaster recovery strategist, system troubleshooter, and infrastructure lead. Today, I focus on backend optimization, feature enablement, and security — ensuring platforms perform at scale while remaining invisible to the user. If your meeting started without a hitch, there’s a good chance I helped make that happen.
👨👩👦 Proud father to a curious 4-year-old who thinks every blinking light in my lab is “Daddy’s spaceship.”
☕ Coffee is my command line — essential for uptime.
🎮 I unwind with RPGs, strategy games, and the occasional YouTube deep-dive on obscure tech.
📸 I enjoy photography and video editing, blending aesthetics with engineering.
🌴 Planning to work-from-beach more often — as long as I have Wi-Fi and SSH access.
DNS-based ad blocker for the entire network. Securing privacy and speeding up browsing from the router.
Self-hosted services like Jellyfin, qBittorrent, and Vaultwarden. Optimized with containers and ZFS.
Virtualized network segmentation and secure remote access with VPNs and VLANs for total control.