Projects
Selected work
Final project · Bar-Ilan University · 2026
Four AWS accounts behind an on-premises Palo Alto firewall
A 97-step build on AWS, documented, then rebuilt in a second region and failed over in under two minutes.
- 97documented steps
- 2regions, one firewall in the middle
- 83sfor DNS to move the origin in the failover
Open the 422-page guide, all 97 steps as they were built →
Ongoing · 2026
One application, two clouds, two architectures
The app on this site, deployed twice under opposite constraints: on AWS behind an on-premises Palo Alto firewall for the final project, then rebuilt as a single hardened host on Oracle Cloud once the job changed from proving an architecture to running a site.
Ongoing · 2026
A private operations dashboard
A dashboard built for one operator, to see what the live site is actually doing rather than what its configuration says it should.
Homelab · 2026
Local language models, reachable from anywhere
Ollama and Open WebUI in two containers on WSL2 with GPU passthrough, running Phi-3 Mini and a 9B Qwen sized to the hardware I have, reached from outside over a tunnel behind an identity check.
Homelab · 2026
An automation server, and the access policy that wasn't
n8n in Docker on Ubuntu under VMware with a tunnel container beside it: the control interface behind an identity check, the webhook endpoint deliberately left open, because a webhook that needs a human to log in is not a webhook.
2021 - 2025
XP.NETWORK - infrastructure, accounts and operations
The infrastructure, every account and the operations of a multi-chain NFT bridge startup: 30+ blockchains, close to $6M raised, four years from 2021 to the wind-down in 2025.
2020 - 2021
Live TV fundraising payment infrastructure
The payment and data pipeline behind nationally televised fundraising campaigns for Krembo Wings, Latet and Variety: donations in real time, at broadcast volume.
- Payments
- Real-time
- DNS
2020
WordPress Vulnerability Scanner
A free scanning tool that flagged security and SEO issues on live WordPress sites.