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# Pietro Quintavalle

Systems Engineer · Developer · Homelabber · Economics Student @ USI 🇨🇭

Open to work — Junior SysAdmin · IT Consulting · Junior Quant

--- ## About Me > Hi — friends call me **Quinta**. I'm an Economics student at USI Lugano and a self-taught systems engineer who's been running homelab infrastructure since 2020. > > My setup spans bare-metal Proxmox clusters, DNS and domain management via Cloudflare (AAAA + Tunnels), Pangolin/Traefik reverse proxying with auto-TLS, and a full media & music automation pipeline. > > On the academic side I'm deepening my understanding of microeconomics, macroeconomics, game theory, and quantitative finance — finding more overlap with systems thinking than you'd expect. - BSc in Economics @ USI (in progress) · 2 yrs BSc Informatics completed - 5+ years SysAdmin & IT consulting · 6–10 production servers · 90%+ uptime - Daily driver: Ryzen 7 9800X3D · RTX 5080 · hand-built custom keyboard - Italian (Native) · English (Fluent) · German (Conversational) · Spanish & Norwegian (Basic) - Lugano / Bellinzona, Switzerland --- ## 🛠️ Tech Stack

**System & Infrastructure:**

**Networking & Security:**

**Development:**

**Data & Monitoring:**

**Dev Tools:**

--- ## Homelab Two-node setup built to enterprise patterns at personal scale. **Zero open ports** — all external access via Cloudflare Tunnels and Tailscale. Every service containerised, every entry-point proxied, every failure logged. The UNRAID box, **[Nargothrond](https://github.com/Quinta0/Nargothrond)**, is fully documented in its own repo — hardware, Docker stack, network segmentation, and traffic-flow diagrams. | Component | UNRAID Server (Nargothrond) | Proxmox Node | |-----------|--------------|-------------| | **CPU** | Intel Core Ultra 5 225 | Intel Core i7-8700 | | **RAM** | 48GB DDR5 5600MHz | 32GB DDR4 | | **Storage** | WD Gold 14TB + 2× WD 12TB parity array + 2TB NVMe pool | SSD (OS) + SATA pool | | **OS** | UNRAID 7.3.1 | Proxmox VE 8 | | **Access** | Pangolin + Traefik | Tailscale + SSH | | **Focus** | NAS · Docker · Media stack | Virtualisation · LXC · IaC | **Key services:** Jellyfin · Navidrome · Sonarr/Radarr/Bazarr · Lidarr · AdGuard Home · Authelia · Grafana/Prometheus · Uptime Kuma · slskd (via VPN) --- ## Projects | Project | Status | Stack | Description | |---------|--------|-------|-------------| | [**valgo**](https://github.com/Quinta0/valgo) | ● Live | TypeScript · React · Next.js | Step-by-step algorithm visualiser — sorting, graph & search with live code annotations | | [**Ainulindale**](https://github.com/Quinta0/Ainulindale) | ● Live | Docker · Navidrome · slskd · Gluetun | Fully self-hosted music discovery & streaming — auto-downloads via Soulseek P2P through VPN | | [**re-soulcommand**](https://github.com/Quinta0/re-soulcommand) | ↗ Open Source | Python · Docker · ListenBrainz · Last.fm | Music recommendation downloader — ListenBrainz/Last.fm playlists into Navidrome via slskd | | [**ObsidianSetup**](https://github.com/Quinta0/ObsidianSetup) | ↗ Open Source · 26★ | PowerShell | Cross-platform provisioning utility for Obsidian and plugins — adopted by other users | | [**Boston Housing Price Prediction**](https://github.com/Quinta0/BostonHousing) | ● Live | Python · scikit-learn · Jupyter · Seaborn | Linear-regression model with EDA to identify socioeconomic price drivers | | [**Nargothrond**](https://github.com/Quinta0/Nargothrond) | ● Live | UNRAID · Docker · Traefik · Mermaid docs | Fully documented UNRAID home server — hardware build, Docker stack, network segmentation, and traffic-flow diagrams | --- ## Experience **Systems Engineering Consultant** · Freelance · Ticino, Switzerland · *Jan 2020 – Present* - Delivered and maintained 6–10 production servers at 90%+ uptime for private and business clients - Eliminated public server exposure across all clients via Cloudflare Tunnels + Pangolin/Traefik — zero open ports, DNSSEC enforced, split-DNS via AdGuard Home - Implemented Authelia SSO + 2FA, Fail2Ban + Crowdsec intrusion detection, and UFW/iptables across all nodes - Reduced storage recovery time to under 30 minutes with ZFS RAID-Z snapshots and automated rsync offsite backups - Enterprise Proxmox Cluster: VLAN segmentation, Pangolin/Traefik reverse proxy, Cloudflare Tunnels, Grafana/Prometheus monitoring - 9-User TrueNAS NAS: RAID 10, per-user ACLs, ZFS snapshots, automated offsite backups - Windows Server: Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Disaster Recovery planning --- ## Education **BSc in Economics** · USI Università della Svizzera italiana · Lugano · *Sep 2024 – Present* Microeconomics · Macroeconomics · Game Theory · Quantitative Finance · Statistics · Financial Modelling **BSc in Informatics** *(2 years completed)* · USI · *Sep 2022 – Jun 2024* Algorithms & Data Structures · OOP (Java/C++) · Software Engineering · Web Development **Maturità Cantonale & AFC Economics** · Scuola cantonale di commercio · Bellinzona · *2018 – 2022* Maturità: **4.5/6** · AFC Economics: **5/6** — Above average in both tracks --- ## Certifications - Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate - Google IT Support Professional Certificate - Microsoft — Foundations of IT Systems, Networking & Data Protection (Specialisation) --- ## GitHub Stats

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