Over a decade in networking and IT. Off the clock I build AI tools, automation, and a homelab that runs like production.
An engineer's approach to building things that work — then explaining them clearly.
I'm Dustin. I've spent over a decade in IT: support, help desk, networking, engineering, infrastructure. It started long before the paycheck. I was the kid taking computers apart, downloading games and music, breaking things and figuring out how to fix them. Too many years of World of Warcraft, still a PC gamer. That curiosity turned into the career.
I did IT in the Marine Corps, carried it through a few companies after that, and these days I work on Cisco networking in a FedRAMP environment. I came up on the hands-on side: packet captures, escalations, enterprise gear. The goal was always to architect networks, not just support them, and to build the tools I wished I had along the way.
So I build. Dashboards, AI agents, automation, a homelab that grew from scavenged gear into something that runs like production. A lot of it points at one goal: moving into a sales engineer role, which is why so many of these projects are about proving a thing out and explaining it clearly. I also teach CCNA-level networking at colleges around Chicago, which is some of the most rewarding work I do.
A self-hosted, white-label AI workspace. Every tool the agent touches becomes a node on a visual canvas, so you can see what it is doing and why. Plugin-based, fully tenant-isolated, with one connector for thousands of apps.
A production-grade homelab bridged to the cloud. Proxmox and two-site Cisco Meraki, full observability, automated backups, and a private overlay to Hetzner.
A multi-tenant AI workspace SaaS. Every customer gets their own isolated OpenClaw agent on its own Kubernetes pod, with single sign-on and billing wired end to end.
Inbound calls and chat to booked meetings, automatically. A phone number routes to an AI voice agent, into a CRM, onto a calendar, with no human in the loop for intake.
A full vertical demo for a solar installer: branded site, CRM, documentation, and a team of role-scoped AI agents handling intake, questions, and follow-up, end to end.
A tiered team of AI agents that monitors and troubleshoots my cloud and local infrastructure, escalating from read-only log analysis to SSH to me, with a shared memory brain (Cognee) so they coordinate instead of duplicating work.
A self-hosted study engine that drills me on the CCNP Automation blueprint, paired with a Cisco Modeling Labs environment where the labs actually run.
Secure, segmented, well-documented network design, a homelab that mirrors the enterprise, and a dedicated Cisco Modeling Labs environment for the heavy scenarios.
Landing pages, docs portals, dashboards, customer portals, and marketing sites, built across plain HTML through React and Astro.
A self-hosted media platform: Plex plus the full *arr automation stack and a request portal, so the whole library runs hands-off.
A network operations dashboard for Cisco Meraki: live device health, alerts, and client visibility in one view, driven through the API.
A toolbox of network-admin utilities for engineers and students: subnetting, lookups, quick references, and guided troubleshooting.
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