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Shannon Wetnight

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Shannon Wetnight

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” – Samuel Johnson

I come from a manufacturing background, where I spent almost 10 years working as a mold technician in a production environment. That work taught me to pay attention to reliability, documentation, repeatable processes, and practical problem solving.

I’m now transitioning into information technology. My focus is systems administration, infrastructure, networking, virtualization, and cybersecurity. I’m also continuing my formal education in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance while building hands-on experience through my home lab. The lab gives me a place to work through real infrastructure problems instead of only studying them in theory.

This website documents some of that journey. It is part technical portfolio, part project archive, and part personal knowledge base for the systems I build, test, break, repair, and improve.

Technical Focus
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My technical interests center on infrastructure and the systems that keep services running. I enjoy working close to the layers that users may never see directly, but depend on every day.

A lot of my current work involves server administration, virtualization, containerized services, network segmentation, DNS, firewall policy, reverse proxy design, identity management, and security monitoring.

I am especially interested in systems that are practical to operate over time. A service is not finished just because it runs. It also needs to be understandable, maintainable, secure, and recoverable when something (eventually) goes wrong.

I also enjoy building services that can be shared with others. That adds another layer to the work because usability, access control, documentation, and reliability all become more important.

Home Lab
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My home lab is the center of my hands-on learning. It gives me a place to design, test, document, and improve infrastructure using real hardware and real services.

The environment has used Proxmox VE as the virtualization platform, with Docker and Portainer for containerized workloads. Traefik handles reverse proxy routing, Authentik provides identity and access management, CrowdSec adds security monitoring and remediation, and Pi-hole supports DNS filtering. Cloudflare, UniFi networking, VLAN segmentation, and several self-hosted services tie the environment together.

The lab changes over time as I rebuild, reorganize, and improve different parts of it. Some projects are about adding new services. Others are about cleaning up old decisions, improving security boundaries, simplifying management, or documenting how everything fits together. Some projects include an entire rebuild from the ground-up.

That process is the point. The lab gives me a safe place to learn how systems interact, how failures happen, and how design choices affect long-term support.

Projects and Documentation
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The projects on this site reflect how I prefer to learn. I build something, document the process, identify what could be better, and keep refining it.

My goal is to show practical technical growth rather than only list tools I have used. Projects represent troubleshooting, design decisions, tradeoffs, lessons learned, and deliverables.

Projects include, but are not limited to the following:

Career Direction
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I am working toward a career in IT infrastructure, with a long-term goal of becoming a systems administrator. I enjoy solving problems, improving systems, documenting repeatable processes, and learning how infrastructure can be made more reliable, secure, and maintainable.

In 2026, there is so much wealth of information to learn new skills and expand knowledge and capabilities. I am a lifelong learner in the pursuit of aligning my passsion for technology with a career.

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