name: Shafaat
alias: twistedvortek
role: IT Infrastructure & Operations Specialist
certifications:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (SAA-C03) 2025-2028
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) 2025-2028
education: BSc (Hons) Computing - Liverpool John Moores University
languages: [English, Hindi, Urdu]
passions:
- IT Infrastructure & Operations
- Networking & Systems Administration
- Self-Hosted Homelab Projects
- Cloud & Virtualisation
fun_fact: "I told my homelab it was just for gaming. It now runs 15 services and has more uptime than me."Networking & Infrastructure
Cloud & Virtualisation
Monitoring & DevOps
Productivity & Collaboration
Gaming PC -> Production-Grade Homelab Server | 2016 - Present
Proxmox VE Hypervisor
├── TrueNAS SCALE -> 44TB RAID-Z1 Storage Pool (10TB usable)
├── Docker LXC -> 15 Self-Hosted Microservices
│ ├── Nextcloud (File Sync), Immich (Photo Backup)
│ ├── Nginx Proxy Manager + Let's Encrypt SSL
│ ├── Grafana + Prometheus (Infrastructure Monitoring)
│ ├── Pterodactyl (Game Server Management)
│ └── Discord Bot (Python + MongoDB)
├── Tailscale VPN -> Secure Remote Access
└── GitHub Actions -> CI/CD Zero-Downtime Deployments
