InfrastructureActive
Homelab Phase 1 — IaC Foundation
Proxmox cluster + Terraform + Ansible. Building reproducible infra from scratch. Documenting everything.
builder / breaker / thinker
I build homelabs, break things on purpose, and write about all of it.
IT career. Security cert grind. Homelab as a learning machine. Creating TTRPG worlds with which to torment my players.
What I'm Working On
CertificationIn progress
CompTIA Security+
Studying for SY0-701. Professor Messer + practice labs. Targeting Q2 2026.
CertificationIn progress
Google Cybersecurity Certificate
Coursera professional certificate. Hands-on with SIEM tools, Python automation, and incident response.
Career TargetTarget
SOC Analyst — June 2026
Everything I'm building is aimed here. Certs + homelab + blue team knowledge = the foundation I need.
Who's behind this terminal
I'm James — IT professional with a background in calibration and weighing instruments. Spent years keeping precision measurement equipment honest.
These days I'm moving into cybersecurity: building out a Proxmox homelab managed entirely with Terraform and Ansible, grinding through Security+ and Google's Cybersecurity certificate, and aiming for a SOC Analyst role by June 2026.
I have ADHD, which means I hyper-focus when something captures my interest — and right now, it's security. The same brain that spent three hours optimizing a shell script or theorycrafting BattleTech unit compositions is now pointed at log analysis and threat modeling.
For professional services (web design, dev), head to hexxusweb.com. This site is the whole person.
Currently working with:
ProxmoxTerraformAnsibleLinuxBashPythonReactNext.jsGitDockerSIEMWireshark
From the blog
Building My Homelab from Code: IaC with Terraform and Ansible
How I went from manually clicking through Proxmox menus to provisioning VMs with a single command — and why infrastructure-as-code changed the way I think about my home network.