Hi, I'm
Jason
I write software and run networks for a small ISP. Internal tools, Python that talks to routers, and the servers underneath all of it. Everything I build for myself, I host myself.
Jason
Developer and network tech at Sun Valley Broadband
Who I am
I'm not 100% a web developer and I'm not 100% an IT guy. I'm somewhere in the middle. I write TypeScript, I vibe code my way to solutions for our customers and our business, and I've leaned all the way into the AI age. This site is proof, Claude and I built it together lol.
At Sun Valley Broadband, if something needs to be built, automated, or explained to a human, it usually lands on me. Over the past year that's been internal tools, a pipeline that documents our whole network, and dashboards our support team uses.
Off the clock I run Linux on everything I own. Gentoo compiled from source with a custom kernel on a ThinkPad T420, Arch and Fedora on other machines, FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi. My homelab has its own CI/CD and I self-host nearly every service I depend on, including this site.
I care about open source and I mean it. If a thing has a self-hosted version, I'm running that one.
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`-//////:--. Things I've built
Work tools, client sites, and the apps I build for myself. Most of these are running in production right now.
Public IP → customer tracing
Give it a public IP and it walks core router ARP, CPE and OLT MAC tables, and the NMS until it lands on the account responsible.
Support dashboards
I turn raw NMS data into screens tech support can read at a glance. Throughput, signal, and device details for every customer.
Front-desk CRM
Customer management app I built for our reception staff. Customizable fields, role-based access, runs in Docker.
ISP customer website
I built and maintain Sun Valley Broadband's public-facing website.
FCC broadband labels
Generates the FCC-mandated broadband consumer labels, the nutrition-facts-style disclosure every US ISP now has to publish. I open-sourced it.
Notes App
A self-hosted notes app that works like Google Docs. Real-time sync across devices, offline support, image uploads, 2FA.
BGP Looking Glass
Shows how the rest of the internet sees any IP. Live routes from RIPE collectors worldwide, and I explain what the BGP communities mean so you don't have to go look them up.
Bee Blog
My blog. I wrote the platform too: Prisma on SQLite, an RSS feed, and self-hosted Rybbit for analytics.
Docker Manager
A web UI for running my containers from the browser instead of SSHing in every time.
MP3 Stem Extractor
Splits a song into separate audio stems using an AI model running on my own hardware. I built it for my music producer friends.
P2Pool Observer
Dashboard for Monero P2Pool Mini mining stats. I run the node it watches.
Small-business sites & hosting
Local businesses hire me to design, build, and host their sites. A contracting company, a chiropractor, an auto-injury clinic, and a few others.
Networks and systems
A year of automating, documenting, and physically maintaining a real ISP network, plus the homelab where I try things before they touch production.
Network source of truth
I wrote a Python pipeline that documents our entire network in NetBox. 370+ devices across 76 sites, imported and kept current without anyone touching it.
Fiber & wireless fleet automation
Containerized services I wrote that provision, name, rate-limit, and set access control on every Ubiquiti fiber ONU and wireless CPE we own.
Ansible fleet automation
I manage our server fleet with Ansible over SSH. Playbooks and roles bootstrap a new box, deploy apps, and keep configs identical across every host. One of them generates our BGP filters straight from inventory.
Regulatory data pipelines
Raw billing records go in, FCC and CPUC broadband filings come out. The pipeline handles geocoding, deduplication, and whatever format each agency wants this year.
Billing data & Platypus
I know the Platypus billing system and the MS SQL behind it: how the data is laid out and how client-side apps talk to it. Most of my internal tools read from there.
Phone system (FreePBX)
I run the phones on Asterisk and FreePBX. Call queues, extensions, voicemail, and the IVR menu that routes callers to the right place. I script the config through the API and generate the voice prompts with text-to-speech.
Switch & router CLI
I live on the switch command line. Cisco and Brocade: VLANs, trunking, interface config, and chasing a MAC through ARP tables when something is broken.
The physical network
Our customers get online over GPON fiber, fixed wireless, and DOCSIS, and I work across all three. When a cable needs re-tipping or a radio on a tower needs swapping, I drive out and do it.
Public recursive DNS + DoT
I run my own recursive resolver instead of trusting someone else's. Unbound looks up every name from the root servers down, Pi-hole filters ads in front of it, and the whole thing answers over DNS-over-TLS so nobody on the wire sees what I'm resolving. It's reachable from anywhere through a Pangolin tunnel.
Homelab
Every site linked on this page runs on hardware I own. Gitea Actions for CI/CD, Portainer, a reverse proxy, a LibreSpeed speedtest server, an Emby media server, and a Monero node. It's all one git repo of compose files.
Fleet security monitoring
Wazuh runs across my machines and watches for the things that matter: file changes, failed logins, anything that looks off. Every endpoint reports in real time, and when something trips I have a place to actually respond. I think about security as a defender first. Thinking like an attacker is just how you find the holes before someone else does.
SNMP monitoring & alerting
A monitoring app I built that polls devices over SNMP and tells me when one goes quiet. Rate-limited to one notification per device per half hour so it doesn't blow up my phone.
Virtualization & AD lab
I stood up a full Microsoft Active Directory domain on KVM/QEMU. Domain controller, users, Group Policy, passwords and privilege access, all virtualized.
Community LoRa mesh
I'm building a Meshtastic LoRa mesh across my area. Long-range radio that keeps working with no internet and no cell signal behind it. The router nodes run on solar, so I build each one from a RAK3401 radio, a panel, and a battery, put it up on a tower, then keep it alive from its telemetry. Reading the voltage curve tells me whether a node is charging enough to make it through the night or slowly starving.
Linux as a daily driver
Gentoo compiled from source with a custom kernel on a ThinkPad T420. Arch and Fedora elsewhere, FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi, a heavily customized Hyprland desktop. I'm at home in any UNIX shell.
AI on my own hardware
Open-source models running on hardware I control. Whatever I feed them stays here.
Company-specific AI
I set up self-hosted open-source models with our own company context loaded in, so staff can ask internal questions without any of it leaving the building.
Self-hosted AI portal
My own Open WebUI instance serving local open-source models. No subscription, and nothing I type goes to somebody else's server.
Agentic dev workflow
I wire AI coding agents to a persistent Obsidian vault so project context carries across machines and sessions instead of starting from zero every time.
Hands-on work
The jobs that need a screwdriver and a drive out to the site.
Hotel-wide Omada network
I set up a TP-Link Omada network covering a whole hotel. Controller-managed access points across the property.
Custom AI servers
Customers who want to run models locally hire me to spec and build the box. GPU selection through OS install and inference setup.
Hard drive data recovery
I pull data off failing drives. Image the disk first, then get what matters out before the hardware quits for good.
IP camera systems
Camera systems for small businesses around town. I handle the cameras, the cabling, and setting up remote viewing so they can check in from their phone.
PC & server building
10+ years of custom builds. Gaming rigs, water-cooled machines, and a few servers that ended up in production.
What I work with
Jack of all trades, on purpose. I'd rather be useful across all of it than expert at exactly one thing.
Languages & Data
Web
Linux & Systems
Self-hosting & DevOps
Networking
AI & Hardware
Certifications
Claude Code in Action — Certified
Anthropic's certification on agentic software development with Claude Code.
VOIDFALL
A floating-island network where losing your bed, or your hearts, means losing everything.
VOIDFALL is my Minecraft server, and it's where I get to over-engineer something with no customer waiting on it. Six game modes on one network. I wrote the plugins behind it, built out the ranks and the store, and put up the site that fronts it.
My blog
I write about whatever I'm currently rabbit-holed on.
Everything I host
Every one of these runs on my own hardware. Click through if you want to poke at them.