5+ years building production-grade infrastructure from the ground up. Self-hosting everything from DNS to music indexing pipelines, secured behind zero-trust networking and automated fail-safes.
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 everything from bare-metal Proxmox clusters to DNS and domain management via Cloudflare, Pangolin/Traefik reverse proxying, and a full media+music automation pipeline.
On the academic side I’m deepening my understanding of microeconomics, macroeconomics, game theory, and quantitative finance — and finding more overlap with systems thinking than you’d expect.
Every service containerised, every entry-point proxied, every failure logged. Domain management via Cloudflare with AAAA records and tunnels. Built to enterprise patterns at personal scale.
| Component | UNRAID Server | Proxmox Node |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core Ultra 5 225 | Intel Core i7-8700 |
| RAM | 48GB DDR5 5600MHz | 32GB DDR4 |
| Storage | 4× HDD parity array + NVMe cache | SSD (OS) + SATA pool |
| Network | 1Gbps LAN · VLANs | 1Gbps LAN · VLANs |
| OS | UNRAID 7.3.1 | Proxmox VE 8 |
| Access | Pangolin + Traefik | Tailscale + SSH |
| Focus | Idle power efficiency · perf/watt | Virtualisation · LXC |
Daily driver and dev machine. Built around AMD’s 3D V-Cache architecture for a blend of high single-threaded performance and serious GPU compute — doubles as a local ML/render node.
| Component | Spec |
|---|---|
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (8c/16t · 3D V-Cache) |
| GPU | Zotac RTX 5080 Solid OC |
| RAM | 32GB DDR5 6000MHz |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte X870E AORUS PRO X3D ICE |
| OS | Windows 11 / CachyOS (dual boot) |
| Role | Dev · Gaming · Local ML inference · Rendering |
End-to-end IT infrastructure for private and business clients in Ticino.
Ongoing bachelor’s focusing on rigorous theory and quantitative methods.
Whether you need server infrastructure, network architecture, a self-hosted media stack, or a Junior SysAdmin — let’s build something reliable together.