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Garrett Call .

Sysadmin · Homelab Enthusiast · Solutions Engineer — I build systems, break things intentionally, and document everything. Currently obsessed with self-hosted infrastructure and automation pipelines.

Garrett@homelab ~ zsh
whoami
Garrett — builder of things

cat ./stack.txt
OS: Proxmox VE 8.x
Network: pfSense + VLANs
Containers: Docker / LXC
Monitoring: Grafana + Prometheus

uptime
99.97% — all systems nominal

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About Me

I build things
that just work.

Hi, I'm Garrett — a Senior Solutions Engineer based in Seattle. I've spent the last 20 years building and tinkering with everything from bare-metal servers to cloud infrastructure.

By day I build and develop Large scale infrastructure solutions in the Biotech field for Scientists. By night (and weekends) I run a homelab that doubles as my playground for learning, breaking, and rebuilding. I believe the best way to understand technology is to get your hands dirty with it.

"If it's not monitored, it's not running." — a philosophy I live by.

I'm passionate about all things Engineering focused, and I'm always looking to collaborate on interesting projects. Feel free to reach out.

20+
Years Experience
105
Projects Shipped
99%
Uptime (claimed)
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Skills & Stack

What I work
with daily.

The tools, platforms, and technologies I've built real things with.

🖥️

Infrastructure

Designing and managing bare-metal and virtualized environments. RAID, ZFS, storage clustering, and more.

Proxmox TrueNAS ZFS iDRAC
🌐

Networking

VLAN segmentation, firewall rules, VPN tunnels, and everything in between. Home networks that outperform offices.

pfSense Ubiquiti WireGuard BGP
🐳

Containers

Running dozens of self-hosted services through Docker Compose and orchestrating with automated update pipelines.

Docker LXC Portainer Traefik
📊

Monitoring

Full observability stack covering metrics, logs, and alerts. Nothing goes unnoticed in my environment.

Grafana Prometheus Loki Alertmanager
⚙️

Automation

Scripting repetitive tasks, building pipelines, and automating deployments so I can focus on what matters.

Ansible Bash Python GitHub Actions
🔒

Security

Hardening systems, managing secrets, and building zero-trust perimeters. Security isn't an afterthought.

Vault Fail2Ban Crowdsec Authelia
Work

Projects &
builds.

Things I've built, broken, and shipped. Click any to learn more.

Infrastructure

The Homelab.

A look inside my home infrastructure. Real hardware, real services, always learning.

// Network Topology
ISP
Router / pfSense online
Core Switch
Wireless AP
VLAN 10 — Servers
VLAN 20 — IoT
VLAN 30 — Trusted
online
Server 1 — Your Server Name
CPU · RAM · Proxmox VE
online
NAS — Storage Server
TrueNAS · [X]TB usable
online
Pi-hole / DNS
DNS filtering · ~98% block rate
online
Reverse Proxy
Nginx Proxy Manager · SSL
online
Monitoring Stack
Grafana + Prometheus + Loki
online
Media Server
Jellyfin · [X] items
Contact

Let's build
something.

Whether you want to collaborate, have a question, or just want to talk tech — my inbox is always open.

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