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Alexandre Luz

Backend developer with over nine years of experience.
I build things that run quietly in the background — and tinker with the rest.

backend security privacy self-hosting tinkering
about

I'm a backend developer with over nine years of experience — most of it spent in the parts of the stack that users never see but always depend on.

Outside of work, I gravitate toward security, privacy, and self-hosting. I'd rather build my own solution than trust someone else's. I run a homelab, tinker with hardware and software for fun, and occasionally write about what I learn.

This site is intentionally minimal. Source on GitHub.

projects
blog
Running a homelab on a laptop — lessons from the first year NFS vs VirtioFS for Docker on macOS — the hard way Why I self-host everything I can

more posts in progress. writing takes time.

homelab
compute
  • MacBook Pro (server)
  • Raspberry Pi (edge)
networking
  • Mesh VPN
  • Split DNS
  • Reverse proxy
self-hosted
  • Cloud storage
  • Password manager
  • Document management
  • Monitoring & alerts
storage & backup
  • External storage
  • Automated backups
  • Time Machine