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<about_me>
IT and service delivery leader with 20+ years in international corporations. Homelab enthusiast, technology explorer, and student of modern leadership. Writing it down at bizr.net.
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<The Blog>
Fresh notes from the homelab, the stack, and the leadership chair.
_Homelab
Hardening Your Homelab’s Public Edge: GeoIP Blocking, CrowdSec, and Syncing Fail2Ban with OPNsense
Exposing services to the internet means accepting a constant flood of automated…
Beyond the Tunnel: Adding HAProxy, ACME, and VLAN Isolation Behind My OPNsense WireGuard Setup
The WireGuard tunnel got traffic into my homelab. HAProxy, ACME, and a…
Bypassing CGNAT with an OPNsense WireGuard Tunnel
Stuck behind your ISP’s CGNAT and can’t expose your homelab services? Here’s…
_leadership
The Quiet Lie of the Performance Rating: When Reviews Serve the Budget, Not the People
The performance rating you receive each year is meant to reflect how you performed. In…
Human-Centric Leadership: Leading People in the Age of Automation
As AI absorbs the analytical and administrative core of knowledge work, a leader’s primary value…
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<My_Projects>
Tech and leadership keep me busy, but they’re not the whole picture. Outside the day job and the homelab, I tend to a couple of projects that have nothing to do with networks, code, or org charts — and that’s exactly why I love them. Whether it’s a recipe handed down through family or a coin minted two thousand years ago, they remind me that curiosity doesn’t need a Wi-Fi connection.






