While I was working on the manufacturing floor at Beckett Thermal Solutions, I asked for a meeting with the head of IT. I wanted to show him some of the things I was working on in my spare time at home to try and demonstrate I had the capabilities to help out at work with IT related tasks. I ran my own mini cloud environment in my home network, which at the time was my parent’s house.
It had E-Mail, File Sharing, Media Sharing, private chat and more. It was only accessible by client certificates and only members of the household and a close friend had access. It was rarely used, but it was a nice proof of concept.
I used Ansible to provision the server and unprivileged LXD containers for each separate service. I kept the permissions locked down tight on all container file shares and network interfaces.
The head of IT was unimpressed and didn’t see a reason to even acknowledge the capabilities it would take to accomplish what I was showing him. He had no comments on any of the things I was showing him. I felt like he just assumed I was showing him random login pages and claiming I made them all from scratch.
Unfortunately, when work responsibilities piled up for me after being promoted, the domain name expired, and I ended up losing it. When I checked to try to renew it, the domain had already been bought and put up for sale for $2,000+ which was astronomically more than I could afford. I gave up on getting it back.
My specialty is in computer programming (C/C++, C# .NET Core, LabVIEW) and reverse engineering (x86/x64 Assembly). System administration is something I started to do in my spare time to be more attractive to prospective employers.