About me
I’m Ange, an IT technician who started in alternance at 16 and grew into supervisor and deployment roles across systems, networks and telecom. Now pursuing an MSc at Epitech Montpellier, I spend my free time building open-source, self-hosted infrastructure, from my homelab to porting /e/OS to my own phone.
How I work
I own my stack, end to end. Open source, self-hosted and privacy-first, from my homelab to my de-Googled phone. I'd rather build a system and understand it than rent a black box.
Secure and reproducible by design. Least privilege, nothing exposed except through a tunnel, encryption per user, and the docs as the source of truth. My standard: git pull, docker compose up, and it runs.
Root cause first, but pragmatic. I dig until I find the real problem, whether it's a faulty SATA cable or the actual state of a bootloader. When I need to keep moving, I'll use a stock build or make a deliberate exception, then come back and fix it properly.
Skills matrix
Each skill, and the projects where I actually used it.
| Skill | Homelab | This portfolio |
|---|---|---|
| API design | Yes | Yes |
| Accessibility | No | Yes |
| CI/CD | No | Yes |
| Containers | Yes | No |
| Front-end | No | Yes |
| Linux administration | Yes | No |
| Monitoring | Yes | No |
| Networking | Yes | No |
| SEO | No | Yes |
| Security | Yes | No |
Strengths
- Troubleshooting: from L1 support to escalations, I'm used to finding the real cause under pressure.
- Range: from soldering a board to deploying a monitoring stack or writing an API.
- Learning fast: I pick up a new tool by deploying it, not by reading about it.
- Explaining: I can present a technical choice to a team and argue for it.
What I'm improving
- Software design at a larger scale: moving from scripts and small services to architecture.
- Testing and CI: making "it runs" mean "it's tested" too.
- Finishing the polish: documenting and wrapping up a project before I jump to the next one.
Interests
- Self-hosting and homelab: Docker, reverse proxies, VPN, monitoring.
- 3D printing: Klipper, Mainsail, and tracking my filament spools with Spoolman.
- Android: building and porting custom ROMs (/e/OS, LineageOS) to my own devices.
- Robotics and IoT: ROS 2 / ArduPilot drone swarms, LoRaWAN sensors.
Inspirations
- The open-source projects I rely on daily, and the people who maintain them for free.
- The self-hosting community, for showing that you can run your own services without a big company.
- The e Foundation and LineageOS, for proving a phone can be useful without being a tracker.