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If I can read about it,
I can build it.

I'm Duncan — based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. By day I'm a Personal Banker, helping clients with financial planning and lending. It's good work, and it pays for the hardware.

By night I'm a tinkerer: building and maintaining a hypervisor-based homelab, containerizing self-hosted services, experimenting with local AI models, and writing software. Diving headfirst into mistakes is the single best way to learn — and I've learned a lot.

Long exposure of water flowing over granite boulders, shot on a northern river — Long exposure — water over granite fig. 02

What I'm building & maintaining

Proxmox VE: Hypervisor node hosting the core infrastructure VMs
TrueNAS SCALE: ZFS pools (NVMe + HDD), NFS/SMB shares, offsite backups
Local AI stack: CUDA-accelerated LLMs via Ollama, LiteLLM routing, Open WebUI
Media & automation: Automated media indexing, Usenet processing, GPU transcoding
Omada SDN: Managed router, PoE+ switching, Wi-Fi 6 APs, isolated subnets
Web apps: Next.js & Astro — like the live Sports Tracker

Outside of tech

Away from the keyboard and the server rack, I'm usually on PC or Xbox, out taking photos, or keeping an unreasonable number of houseplants alive through the Winnipeg winter.

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