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Manikumar-T/README.md

Infrastructure Engineer · SecOps · AI Builder

Self-taught technologist — from bare-metal repair to local LLM deployment.
I operate at the intersection of enterprise infrastructure, security, and applied AI.

eJPT Proxmox Ollama


🧠 About Me

I'm an infrastructure and systems engineer working in an enterprise ITS department — managing networks at scale, virtualization clusters, and increasingly, AI-augmented ops tooling.

My stack spans hardware → Linux → networks → cloud-native → LLMs, built entirely through hands-on practice.
I believe in owning the full stack: if something breaks, I fix it. If it doesn't exist yet, I build it.


⚙️ Tech Stack

Infrastructure & Virtualization

Proxmox VMware Docker Kubernetes TrueNAS

Networking & Security

pfSense Wazuh Kali Linux

AI / ML

Ollama|67 LangChain llama.cpp FastAPI

Languages & Scripting

Python Bash Java C++

Self-Hosted Stack

Nextcloud Jellyfin Pi-hole Netbird


🚀 Featured Projects

🔬 Security Lab (Docker Compose)

Modular, protocol-aware vulnerability lab environment

Started as an FTP lab (vsftpd + Kali attacker + live pcap capture), evolved into a reusable multi-protocol security lab framework.

  • Covers: SSH · HTTP · Databases · SMTP · SMB · DNS · FTP
  • Designed for eJPT/CTF practice and protocol-level packet analysis
  • Fully containerized, spins up and tears down in seconds

📝 Tinkerer Blog

Personal knowledge base and technical writeup site

Built with Docusaurus + Docker, deployed via nginx — a living archive of solutions, lab notes, and Obsidian exports made public.


🏗️ Homelab

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Proxmox Node       │  16GB RAM · Dual NVMe      │
│  ASUS ROG G15       │  RTX 3060 6GB · llama.cpp  │
│  VPS (Cloud)        │  Public-facing services    │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
  • llama.cpp running as a systemd service; ctx-size tuned to ~32K with quantized KV cache on remaining VRAM
  • Hugo static site (Congo theme) with GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline
  • Discord webhook alerts via Proxmox Handlebars templating for infra events

📈 Currently

  • 🎯 Pursuing eJPT certification
  • 🧪 Expanding the Security Lab with new protocol modules
  • 🏋️ Training calisthenics — working toward the handstand
  • 🗣️ Learning Hindi (Duolingo streak intact)

🛠️ Philosophy

"If you can't fix it, you don't own it."

I prefer systems I understand end-to-end — from the NIC driver to the LLM context window.
Self-hosting isn't just a hobby. It's how I learn what enterprise tools actually do under the hood.


Open to conversations about infra, SecOps, self-hosting, and applied AI.
Feel free to explore the repos — everything here is something I've actually run.

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  1. PyncConnect PyncConnect Public

    Forked from pragmaticindustries/pyncclient

    nextCloud client library for Python

    Python