Hi, I'm Finn. Tech enthusiast.
I'm learning systems integration at work and spend my free time tinkering with Linux, Docker, and a small homelab at home.
A first-year apprentice, still learning every day.
I'm in my first year training as a systems integrator, and I'm genuinely enjoying it. The apprenticeship gives me a solid foundation to build on.
In my free time I tinker with Linux, Docker and my homelab to dig deeper into the topics I learn about at work. A lot of what I know about DevOps comes from those evenings at home — there's always more to try out.
Three small projects I'm proud of so far.
Weather App.
A small web app that shows the current weather.
A simple weather app built to learn how to work with public APIs. You type in a city, the app fetches the current weather and displays it in a clean little interface.
Nothing too fancy, but it was a good first project to work with async requests, parse JSON, and handle error states when the API doesn't cooperate. Good practice for everything that came after.
Space Invaders.
My first real programming project.
A small Pygame clone of the 1978 arcade classic. Wave-based enemy movement, basic collision detection, particle effects on impact. Nothing fancy, but I wrote it all from scratch without a game engine.
Looking back, the code is pretty rough, but this project helped me actually understand what a game loop does and why state machines are useful. It was a good place to start.
The Homelab.
A small setup at home where I try things out.
A few raspberry pis and a home-built server running Proxmox, with TrueNAS for storage and Pi-hole at the edge. A private VLAN keeps things organized on the network.
It's my playground for learning. I break it, fix it, and learn something new pretty much every weekend. Most of what I know about real-world infrastructure comes from spending time with this thing.
What I'm into, roughly in order.
DevOps & Infrastructure
Containers, pipelines, configuration as code. The direction I'd like to grow into after the apprenticeship.
Linux & Systems
Parrot on the laptop, Debian on the servers. Slowly getting more comfortable on the command line.
Networking
Packet Tracer labs, VLANs, subnetting. Learning how machines actually talk to each other.
Security & CTF
HackTheBox challenges in my free time. I'm still a beginner, but it's fun to poke at things.
Self-Hosting
Running small services at home — DNS, storage, a bit of automation. Learning by breaking things.
Systems Programming
Curious about Rust. Reading more than writing so far — it's a lot to take in.
Off Screen
Competitive FPS, factory builders, cooking, fashion. The stuff I do when I'm not at a terminal.
happy to connect.
Always happy to chat about tech, get feedback on my projects, or just connect with people in the field.