About me

I'm Ange, an IT technician who started in work-study at 16 and grew into deployment and on-site technician roles across systems, networks and telecom. Now on the Epitech Montpellier MSc track to become an information systems architect, I spend my free time building open-source, self-hosted infrastructure, from my homelab to porting /e/OS to my own phone.

How I work

I own my stack, end to end. Open source, self-hosted and privacy-first, from my homelab to my de-Googled phone. I'd rather build a system and understand it than rent a black box.

Secure and reproducible by design. Least privilege, nothing exposed except through one reverse proxy or a tunnel, encryption per user, and the docs as the source of truth. My standard: git pull, docker compose up, and it runs.

Root cause first, but pragmatic. I dig until I find the real problem, whether it's a faulty SATA cable or the actual state of a bootloader. When I need to keep moving, I'll use a stock build or make a deliberate exception, then come back and fix it properly.

Skills matrix

Each skill, and the projects where I actually used it.

Skills (rows) proven in each project (columns)
Skill	/e/OS port for the Galaxy A56	Homelab	Global Life Tracker	This portfolio	Job board	Epitech pools (Python and Java)	LoRa sensor grid	3D printer on Klipper	Debian on brand-new hardware
API design	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Accessibility	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Algorithms	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Android	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Back-end	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
CI/CD	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Containers	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Databases	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Firewalling	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Front-end	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Hardware & IoT	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Infrastructure as code	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Linux administration	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Monitoring	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Networking	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Object-oriented design	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
SEO	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Scripting	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Security	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Troubleshooting	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes

Strengths

Troubleshooting: from L1 support to escalations, I'm used to finding the real cause under pressure.
Range: from soldering a board to deploying a monitoring stack or writing an API.
Learning fast: I pick up a new tool by deploying it, not by reading about it.
Explaining: I can present a technical choice to a team and argue for it.

What I'm improving

Software design at a larger scale: moving from scripts and small services to architecture.
Testing and CI: making "it runs" mean "it's tested" too.
Finishing the polish: documenting and wrapping up a project before I jump to the next one.

Interests

Self-hosting and homelab: Docker, reverse proxies, VPN, monitoring.
3D printing: Klipper, Mainsail, and tracking my filament spools with Spoolman.
Android: building and porting custom ROMs (/e/OS, LineageOS) to my own devices.
Robotics and IoT: experimenting with ROS 2 and ArduPilot in simulation, and LoRaWAN sensors.

Inspirations

The open-source projects I rely on daily, and the people who maintain them for free.
The self-hosting community, for showing that you can run your own services without a big company.
The e Foundation and LineageOS, for proving a phone can be useful without being a tracker.