Warehouse Employee
Sonepar Deutschland · Dortmund
- High-volume order processing.
- Cable preparation and logistics.
- Process discipline.
About
I am a self-taught Linux and DevOps engineer based in Dortmund, deliberately returning to IT after a long logistics career.
Today I design, deploy and operate a production Raspberry Pi 5 homelab.
Live homelab
Raspberry Pi 5 · self-hosted
Prometheus and Node Exporter · refreshed every 60 seconds
checking
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30-day uptime
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Containers
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Load average
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Days online
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CPU usage
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RAM used
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Disk used
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CPU temperature
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Experience
Painting Area Manager
SIA Koksne · Latvia
- Managed operations.
- Precision coating.
Warehouse / Shop Manager
SIA Apavu Bode · Latvia
- Managed warehouse operations.
Early IT — self-taught
Secondary school · Riga
- Linux server administration.
- PHP forums and HTML sites.
Projects
Production Linux server stack
Raspberry Pi 5, Docker and Cloudflare.
Hermes self-hosted AI agentFocus
LLM routing, memory and integrations.
Monitoring and observability
Prometheus and Grafana.
Home automationFocus
Matter and Home Assistant.
Automated maintenance
Controlled updates and evidence.
Balcony irrigation
ESP32 and 15 sensors.
Skills
- Core
- Linux administrationDockerDocker ComposeBashNginxDNSSSL/TLSPrometheusGrafanasystemdGit
- Working knowledge
- PythonREST APIsHome AssistantESP32 / IoTYAML
- Learning
- AnsibleTerraformAWS Cloud
- Foundations
- NetworkingSSH/FTPPHP/IPBHTML/CSS
Education and learning
The Linux Command Line
Self-study
Multimedia Communication
Partial studies
Secondary Education
Riga 45th Secondary School