neil@potato:~$ whoami
Neil Hanlon —
infrastructure, networks, systems
& the occasional potato.
I’m Neil Hanlon, an Infrastructure, Network, Systems, and Potato Expert
I love Open Source, Linux, and building cool shit with great people.
Feel free to take a peek at some of my projects, or check out my cat’s Instagram.
For more check out my academic & professional resume.
I’m also available for consulting.
Contact me at @shrug.pw or by yelling really really loud.
Latest posts
Homelab, infrastructure, and the occasional life event that turns into a systems-design problem.
I modeled my newborn as a typed resource with a sync method and a stack of reports. It's the newest of five ways I track one baby, and somewhere in the absurdity there's a real …
I taught swamp to drive FreeIPA, then used it to issue my laptop an 802.1X client cert and get onto my own network. Mostly this is about knowing when to write things down.
I've joined ResolveX as a technical advisor to help scale their crisis response software. Working on infrastructure, security, and scaling decisions for 988 suicide prevention …
Learn how to create a smart soldering iron using Pinecil with Home Assistant and ESPHome, as well as explore the options for controlling and monitoring your Pinecil with Bluetooth
What's running
Consulting
Infrastructure for growing tech companies via shrugpw.com — compliance, migrations, networks done right.
The homelab
FreeIPA, FreeRADIUS, an SSID with a potato in the name, and far too many little agents writing to a database.
Fedora / RISC-V
Packaging, build systems, and a standing campaign to get more of Fedora booting on RISC-V hardware that mostly doesn't want to. Open source is the good part of this whole thing.