Interests

Outside of work, most of my free time ends up at the workbench or in the homelab. It’s where I learn: new technologies get tried here first, and these are the areas I keep coming back to.

Embedded & IoT hardware

Microcontroller projects built around the ESP32 family: flashing custom firmware, wiring up sensors, servos, and audio modules, and writing the code that ties them together. I enjoy the whole stack: soldering and level converters at the bottom, firmware and control logic at the top.

Self-hosting & homelab

Running my own services at home - partly for control, mostly because operating them end to end teaches me more than any managed offering would. Smart home gear gets reflashed for local-only control wherever possible, and the homelab doubles as a sandbox for the same automation and monitoring practices I use professionally.

3D printing & CAD design

Designing parts in CAD and printing them: enclosures, brackets, and mounts for the hardware projects above, plus the occasional fix for something broken around the house. There’s a particular satisfaction in a part that fits right on the first print.

You can find my models on MakerWorld and Printables.

CLI tooling

Small command-line tools that smooth over repetitive tasks. If I have to do something three times, it usually ends up as a script; if the script sticks around, it grows flags and a README.

Web & full stack

Building and hosting small web projects end to end: frontend, backend, and the infrastructure underneath. This site is one of them: static files, markdown content, no backend to babysit.