I design and operate security-first, self-hosted infrastructure focused on detection, resilience, and sovereignty.
My lab functions as a live production environment where threat intelligence, automation, and reliability engineering intersect.

🛰 The Fleet (10 Nodes)

This environment blends production, research, and continuous experimentation. Availability and controls are intentionally tuned per node role.

Node	Role	Specs	Status
Argus	SIEM / Brain / node-health Failover	Xeon E5-2660v2 (1 core)	🟢 Online
Triton	High Performance Compute	EPYC 9634 (8 cores)	🟢 Online
Ares	Gitea / Kubernetes Management Node (MicroK8s)	Ryzen 9 9950X (8 cores)	🟢 Online
Zephyrus	Container Host	Ryzen 9 7950X (4 cores)	🟢 Online
Iris	NGINX / PHP Edge	Vultr	🟢 Online
Vault	Secrets Management	GCP (Vaultwarden)	🟢 Online
Apollo	Intel Dashboard (Flask)	AWS	🟢 Online
Hermes	Public API (Frontend)	Oracle Cloud	🟢 Online
Hades	Public API (Backend)	Oracle Cloud	🟢 Online
Zeus	Monitoring / Metrics NOC	Xeon Gold 6150 (1 core)	🟢 Online

🌐 Infrastructure Strategy

Compute Layer: Zen 5 (9950X), Zen 4 (7950X), EPYC 9634 for sustained workloads.
Edge Layer: Oracle Cloud & Vultr for low-latency public ingress.
Sentinel Layer: Argus SIEM correlating telemetry and enforcing distributed decisions across nodes.
Observability: Zeus as the centralized NOC and metrics authority.

🛡️ Detection & Response Lifecycle

Triage: Telemetry ingested from 7 active nodes into the Argus engine.
Escalation: Post-exploitation indicators (e.g. webshells) trigger immediate PERM_BAN.
Retention:
- 24 hours for lower confidence scenarios
- 14 days for high-confidence IOCs
- 30 days for offender watchlist
Notification: High-severity events dynamically pushed to Discord.

🛠 The Arsenal

Languages: Python (Flask, Gunicorn), Bash, JavaScript (React, Node.js)
Infrastructure: Kubernetes (K8s), Docker, Caddy, NGINX
Security: Argus (Custom SIEM), CrowdSec, Trivy, SQLite, Vaultwarden
Observability: Prometheus, Blackbox Exporter, Node Exporter
Backups: Borgmatic, Rsync.net (Encrypted Offsite)

🧠 Supporting Tooling & Concepts

Actively used across this environment or in adjacent projects:

Security & Identity: Fail2Ban, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, OIDC, Authelia, MFA, TLS hardening
Infrastructure & Cloud: Linux (Debian/Ubuntu), Terraform, AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud, Vultr
CI / Ops: Git, GitHub Actions, container image scanning
Observability (Extended): Grafana, Netdata

⚡ Efficiency Metrics

Codebase Growth: 10250 lines of custom code across all our repositories
Commit Velocity: 272 commits since Jan 1
Ares: Ryzen 9 9950X sustaining ~0.06 load avg while running Gitea and a Kubernetes control plane
Resilience: Automated failover between AWS and peer nodes

🧩 Deployment Patterns

Reverse Proxy: Caddy/NGINX (Cloudflare where applicable)
Observability: Prometheus + Node Exporter + cAdvisor
Lifecycle: Watchtower for controlled auto-updates
Access Control: Authelia where exposed
Management: Portainer (loopback-bound where possible)

Nodes are intentionally heterogeneous.
Each host is scoped to its role to reduce blast radius and cognitive load.

📍 Triton

Primary high-density services node running:

Prometheus + Grafana
Code-server
Authelia
Trilium
CrowdSec bouncers

Optimized for sustained workloads and observability aggregation.

🔗 Live Projects

Threat Decisions & Telemetry: threats.beane.me
Threat Intelligence & Analytics: intel.beane.me
Vulnerability Scanning (Trivy): vuln.beane.me
Backups & Restore Verification: backups.beane.me
Threat Decision Observability: observe.beane.me
Source Control (Gitea + K8s): git.beane.me

🚜 Resource Management

Compute Density: Kubernetes control plane with Postgres and CI workloads on Zen 5 hardware
Sovereignty: All code, telemetry, and backups remain self-hosted
Backups: Multiple daily encrypted Borgmatic snapshots shipped offsite

"If it's not blocked, it just hasn't found our infrastructure yet."