I write about self-hosting, homelab infrastructure, and what a sustainable engineering career actually looks like.
Hi, I'm Victor.
I've spent 15+ years building software and leading engineering teams, most recently moving back from Director of Engineering to individual contributor because I missed building more than I liked managing. These days my homelab is where I learn infrastructure and networking on my own terms, plus a lot of trial and error I write about here.
I also write about the career side of engineering: pacing, burnout, and what it actually takes to do this work for decades, including what it looks like to step back from management on purpose. If that's something you want to talk through one-on-one, I still coach engineers and engineering leaders too.
Three things: the gear and software I run at home, the practices that keep infrastructure boring in a good way, and the career questions every engineer eventually runs into.
Proxmox clusters, self-hosted services, and the hardware and software that make up my home infrastructure, plus what went wrong along the way.
Read the postsVLANs, routing, DNS, monitoring, and the day-to-day work of keeping a home network reliable enough to trust.
Read the postsEssays on pacing, burnout, and building an engineering career that survives contact with reality.
Read the postsNew posts go up regularly on self-hosting, infrastructure, and engineering careers.
