Watterstech

WatterstechAlex Watters

whoami — 80×24
alex@watterstech:~$

cat about.txt

Still hands-on.

I’m Alex — I run a personal infrastructure stack under the Watterstech name. Day to day that means Docker on bare metal, reverse proxies, tunnels, media, game servers, and the messy networking that shows up after you move house and the ISP changes the rules.

I like systems that are boring when they work and obvious when they don’t. Small diffs. Root cause over band-aids. Document the ceiling when you cut a corner.

  • Docker / Compose
  • DNS & tunnels
  • Linux NAS
  • Networking
  • Self-hosting

ls ./homelab

Homelab portfolio

Production-adjacent gear in a house — not a datacenter. Selected pieces:

  • Home server

    Always-on Linux box for containers, media libraries, and backups — the hub everything else hangs off.

  • Container fleet

    Plex, Gitea, Nginx Proxy Manager, Portainer, Watchtower, Cloudflare Tunnel, and more — compose-backed, restart-safe.

  • Edge & DNS

    Cloudflare for public DNS and tunnels; dynamic A records for services that need a raw IP path.

  • Remote access

    Self-hosted RustDesk so I can reach the lab without handing the keys to a third-party desktop service.

  • Cross-play Minecraft

    Paper + Geyser/Floodgate so Java and Bedrock friends land on the same world.

  • Networking

    DNS, reverse proxies, tunnels, and inbound service paths — kept boring when they work, obvious when they don’t.

open resume.pdf

Resume

Experience, skills, and a printable PDF — kept next to the lab notes, not buried in a CMS.

view resume download PDF

mail alex

Contact

Roles, homelab questions, or “why is my port forward lying to me” — email works.

[email protected]