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Independent Engineering Lab

Infrastructure built to run, not just to demo.

A working lab for communications software, self-hosted infrastructure, and AI-driven tooling — built the way production systems are built, tested in the open, shipped on a real release cadence.

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Projects

07 in progress · more in the lab
In Development

Diffuse CX

An AI-powered VoIP platform built for small and mid-size businesses — real telephony infrastructure under the hood, with AI woven into the customer experience layer rather than bolted on top.

VoIP AI Kubernetes SIP
Running

Home Lab Platform

The self-hosted foundation everything else runs on — GitOps delivery, full observability, and cloud-grade infrastructure patterns, operated like production because it is.

Kubernetes GitOps Observability
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Running

Domain Management

One Terraform repo for public Google Cloud DNS and private Pi-hole — the same names resolve on the internet and on the LAN, without a second source of truth.

Terraform DNS Pi-hole GCP
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Running

Cursor Agent

A long-lived worker image and Helm chart so Cursor Cloud Agents run their tools — shell, git, kubectl — on self-hosted infrastructure instead of a managed sandbox.

Kubernetes GitOps Helm AI
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Running

SSL Management

Wildcard TLS as inventory — public certs in Git, private keys in SOPS, and Infisical as the store clusters pull leaf, chain, and key from.

TLS SOPS Infisical GitOps
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Running

Grok Bot Team

AI teammates for the lab — routing, GitOps, cluster ops, tickets, and research — each with one job, coordinated and shipped in the open.

AI GitOps Kubernetes GitHub
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Running

MicroK8s Provisioning

Repeatable scripts to stand up a multi-node MicroK8s cluster — primary, addons, worker join, and kubeconfig — so the lab clusters are built the same way every time.

MicroK8s Kubernetes Automation Homelab
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In the Lab

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