From Day 1 at Rakuten Advertising to now, my DevOps internship has been nothing short of transformative. I’ve had the chance to roll up my sleeves, contribute to real-world projects, and learn from an incredible team. Watch to hear what it’s like behind the scenes at Rakuten—and why this experience...

Cloudflare DNS + Dockerized NGINX on AWS

🌐 Cloudflare DNS + Dockerized NGINX on AWSLaunching a website isn't enough — it should be automated, secure, and built like infrastructure. This project uses Dockerized NGINX on an AWS EC2 instance, paired with Cloudflare DNS and an API-driven TLS workflow to serve https://haelectricinc.com reliably and securely. 🧰 What It...

Fail2Ban Daily SSH Report Script

  🔐 Fail2Ban Daily Report Script Security isn’t just about blocking attacks — it’s about knowing they happened. This lightweight Bash script integrates with Fail2Ban to generate daily email reports on SSH intrusion attempts, giving you clear, actionable visibility without logging into the server. 🧰 What It Does Pulls the...

Unauthorized SSH Attempts Script

🔐 Tracking Unauthorized SSH Attempts with a Bash Script Securing a Linux server isn’t just about firewalls — it’s about knowing who’s trying to break in. I wrote a lightweight Bash script called badssh.sh to track SSH intrusion attempts on port 22. 🧰 What It Does: Scans UFW logs for...

Server Status Script

📬 Automating Linux Health Reports To keep my home lab running smoothly, I built a simple Bash script called stats.sh that emails me daily server health reports. This way, I stay updated on performance and security without logging in manually. 🛠️ What It Does Monitors system health: CPU, memory, disk...

Packet Tracer

Building a Fully Redundant Multilayer Network in Cisco Packet Tracer Overview : In this project, I designed and implemented a high-availability enterprise network in Cisco Packet Tracer. The environment includes redundancy at every layer, dynamic routing, VLAN segmentation, First Hop Redundancy Protocols (FHRP), Access Control Lists (ACLs), DNS, GRE tunneling,...

Homelab

DevOps Home Lab As a retired NYPD Sergeant and U.S. Army Veteran transitioning into DevOps, I built this self-hosted, production-grade home lab to mirror real-world infrastructure. It’s designed for learning, testing, automation, and hardening — with security and observability at its core. Hardware Setup Device Purpose Desktop Kali Linux +...

My Path to DevOps

From NYPD Sergeant to DevOps Engineer My Self-Taught Journey into Cloud & Automation After retiring from the NYPD and serving in the U.S. Army, I set out to build my next chapter — not in uniform, but in the terminal. What began as simple curiosity about Linux quickly evolved into...