cole
wisniewski
rit cit junior. i run a small datacenter out of a closet — proxmox · k3s · argo cd · cloudflare zero trust. everything declarative, everything in git, nothing ever ssh'd into and forgotten about. seeking co-op starting june 2026.
2026
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$ cat ~/skills.db | wc -l
→ … entries indexed. type a skill above to search.
arch underneath, but compiled for my exact cpu so spotify opens 200ms faster — which absolutely matters. comfyui + stable diffusion live here with a passthrough gpu.
/\__/\ ( o.o ) > pacman -Syu > ^ <
school + class demos + that one time the library wifi was sketchy and i tunneled home over wireguard. arch without the install gymnastics.
┌──────┐ │ ▓▓▓▓ │ > eos-update └──────┘
the closet, the hum, the heartbeat. debian under the hood, kvm + lxc on top, zfs underneath, gpu doing double duty for jellyfin transcodes and local llms.
╔══════╗ ║ PVE ║ > qm start ╚══════╝
the watchman. lives on a shelf, sips power, runs cron jobs that ping every service and yell into a discord webhook if anything is acting weird. has yelled exactly 4 times in two years.
.~. /v\ > systemctl // \\ /( )\
a homelab cli, in go
i've hit the "same five bash scripts pasted into different repos" phase of homelabbing. so — colectl: one binary, sub-commands per service, talks to the k8s api directly, no kubeconfig juggling. also a thinly-veiled excuse to learn go properly.
$ colectl svc restart jellyfin → rollout restart deploy/jellyfin → ok (4.1s)
this stack, in 2026
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dishwatcher
fastapi service that watches the homelab service dishwasher — first project deployed to k3s under argo cd. webhook + scheduled heartbeats, discord alerts.
infra-tofu
opentofu iac for the colewiz.dev platform. cloudflare dns + r2 + tunnel + zero trust, proxmox vms/lxcs, github repo settings — all declarative, state in r2, tfvars encrypted with sops+age.
homelab-gitops
single source of truth for the k3s cluster — applicationsets auto-discover new apps. cilium, traefik, cert-manager, authentik, openbao, prom/loki/tempo/grafana, velero, kyverno, cnpg.
recipe-converter
parses pdf cookbooks → html, normalizes units, runs an adversarial-validation llm pass for accuracy, ingests into mealie via api. runs in docker on the cluster.
colectl — a go cli
currently learning go. plan: a small cli for homelab ops — first compiled language past school assignments. looking for a real itch to scratch (suggestions welcome).
self-hosted gen-ai
stable diffusion + comfyui on a gpu-passthrough proxmox vm. automated upscaling pipelines, queued jobs, persistent model store on nfs.
if you're reading this you probably want to hire me — or argue about kubernetes. both welcome.
# open for: co-op, internship, summer/fall contracts.
# starting: june 2026.
# interests: devops · sre · platform — anything with k8s & a real on-call rotation.
# will relocate: yes, gladly.