My Homelab Stack: Proxmox, CoreOS, and Podman Quadlets</h1> <article> <h1>My Homelab Stack: Proxmox, CoreOS, and Podman Quadlets</h1> <p>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</p> <h2 id="intro---why-i-do-it">Intro - Why I do it</h2> <p>There are a lot of cloud provider options today, and many of them are great. Hell, I even work at Amazon, one of the largest of them. So why then do I homelab? For me, there are many reasons and most of them are the usual suspects: privacy, control over my own data, the sweet satisfaction of building something myself. The thought of someone sneakily reading my personal items, my writing, my code, my photos and training an AI on it is a major turn off for sure. However, the biggest reason is learning and expanding my skills. My homelab gives me a playground to try out new ideas, new technologies, to really level up my abilities. I’m the kind of person who winds down from my job in big tech by tinkering (or essentially I wind down from a long day of coding with more coding). I’m always chasing problems to solve and with homelabbing, there is certainly no shortage. This hobby certainly isn’t for everyone: it’s nothing but delicious sidequest after sidequest. You can’t beat the ease of a traditional cloud provider like AWS or even Digital Ocean or something when just spinning up simple apps or services. But since you’re here, I assume you have let your curiosity get the better of you and you’re ready to venture down the rabbit hole yourself. So for you fellow techno-masochists, I am writing this series on how I homelab. I’ll cover my journey, my setup, and some interesting projects like setting up data backups using dynamic credentials, exposing services to the wild internet, and orchestrating anything and everything!</p> </article> <article> <h1>Showcase</h1> <p>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</p> <p>These are real websites built by the community using the Adritian Hugo theme.</p> <p><strong>Is your site missing?</strong> <a href="https://github.com/zetxek/adritian-free-hugo-theme/issues/new?template=showcase-submission.md">Submit it via GitHub</a> — we’d love to feature it here!</p> </article> <article> <h1>SDE III - Audible</h1> <p>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:41:53 -0400</p> <h3 id="sde-iii">SDE III</h3> <p>Audible is the world’s largest producer and provider of audiobooks and audio entertainment, reaching millions of listeners globally as an Amazon company.</p> <p>I joined Audible’s Consumer Domains org as an SDE III, where I work on the credits system, the core mechanism that powers Audible’s membership model and allows members to acquire titles. The credits system sits at the heart of how customers interact with Audible’s catalog, making it one of the most critical and high-traffic domains in the consumer experience.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Graziella Nutella</h1> <p>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:53:18 +0100</p> <p>The content of this section comes from the <code>content/testimonial</code> folder contents. This that you see is in <code>content/testimonial/graziella-nutella.md</code>.</p> <p>You can also use parameters for configuration:</p> <div class="highlight-wrapper"> <button class="copy-code-btn" type="button" aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" aria-hidden="true"> <rect x="9" y="9" width="13" height="13" rx="2" ry="2"></rect> <path d="M5 15H4a2 2 0 0 1-2-2V4a2 2 0 0 1 2-2h9a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v1"></path> </svg> <span class="copy-text">Copy</span> </button><div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>name: "Nutting Hill" # place/city/country for the experience. Fill-in. </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>position: "Nutcracker" # from-to, for example "2022-2024". Fill-in. </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>params: </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> image: </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> x: "images/testimonials/testimonial1.png" # example: "images/clients/asgardia.png" </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> _2x: "images/testimonials/testimonial1@2x.png" # example: "images/clients/asgardia@2x.png"</span></span></code></pre></div></div> </article> <article> <h1>Dana Oneal</h1> <p>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:50:45 +0100</p> <p>I had the pleasure of working with this freelancer on several projects, and their performance has been nothing short of outstanding. They bring a high level of expertise, creativity, and dedication to every task. Their ability to understand project requirements and deliver exceptional results on time is truly impressive. They are a reliable and proactive professional who consistently exceeds expectations. I highly recommend this freelancer to anyone seeking top-notch skills and a collaborative partner.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Ferdinand Shermand</h1> <p>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:30:46 +0100</p> <p>Working with this colleague has been an absolute pleasure. Their dedication, professionalism, and positive attitude make them an invaluable asset to our team. They consistently go above and beyond to ensure that projects are completed on time and to the highest standard. Their ability to collaborate effectively and support their colleagues is truly commendable. I am continually impressed by their innovative thinking and problem-solving skills. This colleague is not just a team member but a true inspiration and a driving force behind our team’s success.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Ztos</h1> <p>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:23:39 +0200</p> </article> <article> <h1>Zoo</h1> <p>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:23:08 +0200</p> </article> <article> <h1>Kanba</h1> <p>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:22:34 +0200</p> </article> <article> <h1>Goldline</h1> <p>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:21:48 +0200</p> </article> <article> <h1>Earth 2.0</h1> <p>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:17:12 +0200</p> </article> <article> <h1>Asgardia</h1> <p>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:53:42 +0200</p> </article> <article> <h1>Radity Finance - UI Kit</h1> <p>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:53:42 +0200</p> <p>We have been receiving a lot of requests for a Finance Kit recently due to the popularity of Fintech.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Robo Advisor</h1> <p>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:53:42 +0200</p> <p>Robo Advisor is a Swiss Wealth Manager and wants to create the best digital experience for its UNHW clients across the world. We started with a whiteboard.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Swiss Fintech Website</h1> <p>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:53:42 +0200</p> <p>Here you can add additional context, description, links, etc. The content you see here comes from the contents of the <code>content/projects</code> folder.</p> <p>This project is in the file <code>projects/swiss-fintech.md</code>.</p> <p>In the markdown file frontmatter you can also define additional parameters, such as the link:</p> <div class="highlight-wrapper"> <button class="copy-code-btn" type="button" aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" aria-hidden="true"> <rect x="9" y="9" width="13" height="13" rx="2" ry="2"></rect> <path d="M5 15H4a2 2 0 0 1-2-2V4a2 2 0 0 1 2-2h9a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v1"></path> </svg> <span class="copy-text">Copy</span> </button><div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>link: "https://www.adrianmoreno.info" # optional URL to link the logo to </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>params: </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> button: </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> icon: "icon-arrow-right" </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> btnText: "Case Study" </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> URL: "https://www.adrianmoreno.info" </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> image: </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> x: "images/works/swissfintech.jpg" </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> _2x: "images/works/swissfintech@2x.jpg"</span></span></code></pre></div></div> </article> <article> <h1>Principal Engineer - Walmart Pharmacy & Vision</h1> <p>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 01:41:53 -0400</p> <h3 id="principal-engineer">Principal Engineer</h3> <p>Walmart is one of the largest retailers in the United States and the world.</p> <p>After leaving Swap Health, I decided to take some time to figure out what to do next. I remembered fondly my time with Walmart in the past and decided to apply. I wanted to leverage my experience in health care and continue to help people. Walmart hired me in their Pharamacy and Vision department as a Principal Engineer.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Breaking News</h1> <p>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:45:00 +0000</p> <p>This is breaking news content demonstrating how different sections can contain different types of content while using the same underlying Hugo section functionality.</p> <h2 id="news-section-benefits">News Section Benefits</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Separate URL space</strong>: <code>/news/</code> vs <code>/articles/</code></li> <li><strong>Different content structure</strong>: News vs long-form articles</li> <li><strong>Independent RSS feeds</strong>: <code>/news/index.xml</code></li> <li><strong>Custom styling</strong>: Different templates if needed</li> </ul> <p>This allows for clear content separation while maintaining consistency in the overall site structure.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Advanced Hugo Sections</h1> <p>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 14:30:00 +0000</p> <p>This is the second article, demonstrating how multiple articles appear in the same section.</p> <h2 id="advanced-section-features">Advanced Section Features</h2> <p>Hugo sections provide powerful features for content organization:</p> <h3 id="custom-section-templates">Custom Section Templates</h3> <p>You can create custom templates for each section by placing them in <code>layouts/SECTION/</code>:</p> <ul> <li><code>layouts/articles/list.html</code> - for <code>/articles/</code> page</li> <li><code>layouts/articles/single.html</code> - for individual articles</li> </ul> <h3 id="section-variables">Section Variables</h3> <p>In templates, you can access section-specific data:</p> <div class="highlight-wrapper"> <button class="copy-code-btn" type="button" aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" aria-hidden="true"> <rect x="9" y="9" width="13" height="13" rx="2" ry="2"></rect> <path d="M5 15H4a2 2 0 0 1-2-2V4a2 2 0 0 1 2-2h9a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v1"></path> </svg> <span class="copy-text">Copy</span> </button><div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-go" data-lang="go"><span style="display:flex;"><span>{{ .<span style="color:#a6e22e">Section</span> }} <span style="color:#75715e">// "articles"</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>{{ .<span style="color:#a6e22e">Type</span> }} <span style="color:#75715e">// content type</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>{{ .<span style="color:#a6e22e">Pages</span> }} <span style="color:#75715e">// all pages in section</span> </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>{{ .<span style="color:#a6e22e">RegularPages</span> }} <span style="color:#75715e">// only regular pages</span></span></span></code></pre></div></div> <h3 id="taxonomies-per-section">Taxonomies per Section</h3> <p>Each section can have its own taxonomies (tags, categories) with independent organization.</p> </article> <article> <h1>First Article</h1> <p>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 10:00:00 +0000</p> <p>This is the first article content. Hugo sections allow you to organize content into logical groups, and each section gets its own URL path.</p> <h2 id="what-are-hugo-sections">What are Hugo Sections?</h2> <p>Hugo sections are a way to organize your content into logical groups. When you create a folder under <code>content/</code>, Hugo automatically treats it as a section.</p> <h2 id="benefits-of-using-sections">Benefits of Using Sections</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Organization</strong>: Keep related content together</li> <li><strong>URLs</strong>: Automatic URL structure (<code>/articles/</code>, <code>/news/</code>, etc.)</li> <li><strong>Templates</strong>: Custom layouts for different content types</li> <li><strong>RSS</strong>: Each section gets its own RSS feed</li> </ul> <h2 id="example-structure">Example Structure</h2> <div class="highlight-wrapper"> <button class="copy-code-btn" type="button" aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" aria-hidden="true"> <rect x="9" y="9" width="13" height="13" rx="2" ry="2"></rect> <path d="M5 15H4a2 2 0 0 1-2-2V4a2 2 0 0 1 2-2h9a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v1"></path> </svg> <span class="copy-text">Copy</span> </button><div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-text" data-lang="text"><span style="display:flex;"><span>content/ </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>├── articles/ </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>│ ├── _index.md </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>│ ├── first-article.md </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>│ └── second-article.md </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>└── news/ </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> ├── _index.md </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> └── breaking-news.md</span></span></code></pre></div></div> <p>This creates accessible URLs like:</p> </article> <article> <h1>Georgia Institute of Technology</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</p> </article> <article> <h1>Home</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</p> <section id="showcase" class="rad-showcase rad-showcase--index rad-animation-group rad-fade-down"> <div> <div class="showcase-section row flex-column-reverse flex-md-row rad-fade-down rad-waiting rad-animate"> <div class="col-12 col-sm-12 col-md-6 col-lg-6 col-xl-6"> <h1 class="display-1"> Hello, I'm Gian! </h1> <h2 class="display-5"> <span>Engineering Leader in Software and Technology</span> </h2> <div class="lead"> Based in the New York City area, I am currently an SDE III at Audible. I am a passionate and experienced engineer and leader, with a thorough background as a computer scientist and engineer, and experience as an individual contributor and team/project lead. </div> <a href="me@gianbiondi.com" class="btn btn-primary" > <i class="icon-email"></i> Contact Me </a> </div> <div class="col-12 col-sm-12 col-md-6 col-lg-6 col-xl-6 profile-image"> </picture> </div> <div class="col-12 inner-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="row platform-links shortcode"> <div class="col-12"> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gianfranco-biondi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="linkedin" ><i class="icon-linkedin"></i> </a> <a href="https://github.com/gxb5443" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="square-github" ><i class="icon-square-github"></i> </a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gxb5443/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="instagram" ><i class="icon-instagram"></i> </a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/gianbiondi.bsky.social" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" aria-label="bluesky" ><i class="icon-bluesky"></i> </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row platform-links"> <div class="col-12"></div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="about" class="section rad-animation-group pb-0"> <div class="rad-fade-down"> <div class="row d-flex flex-column-reverse flex-md-row"> <div class="about__profile-picture col-12 col-md-6"> </picture> </div> <div class="col-12 col-md-6 my-auto"> <h2>Who am I?</h2> <div class="about-me content"> <p>I'm easy going, curious, a fast-learner, and a natural leader. I do what I love and I love what I do. I lead by example and I love to work side-by-side with my teams.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Rochester Institute of Technology</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000</p> </article> <article> <h1>CTO - Swap Health</h1> <p>Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:41:53 -0400</p> <h3 id="co-founder-and-cto">Co-Founder and CTO</h3> <p>My former boss from my DoubleVerify days, a serious and serial entrepreneur, reached out to me during the spring of 2021 with a question: what if we could help people make better choices while grocery shopping? I thought the idea was really interesting, we could apply a lot of the advertising techniques and technology towards helping people get healthier. Over the next week I built out a prototype chrome extension that could analyze products and make recommendations for people shopping for groceries online. And just like that I co-founded a Health Tech startup.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Staff Engineer - Walmart Labs</h1> <p>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 02:41:53 -0400</p> <h3 id="staff-engineer-and-fortune-1-company">Staff Engineer and Fortune 1 Company</h3> <p>Walmart is one of the largest retailers in the United States and the world.</p> <p>When Walmart fully absorbed Jet.com, my team from Jet was merged with another team working for Walmart Labs proper. We brought much of our experience with our A/B testing platform to the Walmart-developed tool. We brought A/B testing to all of Walmart, including in-store operations. Together we built a single, performant platform that supported a growing culture of testing and optimization at Walmart. I also led efforts to upgrade our internal telemetry system to use <a href="https://opentelemetry.io/">OpenTelemetry</a>. I also led experiments and research into improving user experience through new integrations and work flows (e.g. GitOps-based experiments) and in upgrading our platform to a next-generation architecture built on edge-computing via Web Assembly.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Senior Engineer - Jet.com</h1> <p>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 01:41:53 -0400</p> <h3 id="senior-engineer-and-technical-lead">Senior Engineer and Technical Lead</h3> <p>I was hired originally at Jet.com as a Senior Engineer. Walmart acquired Jet shortly before I was hired. I worked on our internally-developed A/B testing platform. The platform was built directly into the network infrastructure of Jet, injecting metadata and dynamically updating routing for every request. The tech stack we used was React, Node, Golang, and Lua. I quickly rose through the ranks to the team’s technical lead and was promoted to Staff Engineer.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Network Security Software Engineer</h1> <p>Sat, 12 Aug 2023 01:41:53 -0400</p> <h3 id="leading-research-and-learning-scale">Leading Research and Learning Scale</h3> <p>DoubleVerify is a software company which produces tools for advertisers, marketplaces, and publishers to better understand how their ad’s performance. DoubleVerify focused on detecting and preventing fraud, measuring “viewability”, and ensuring brand-safety.</p> <p>I was the first engineering hire for a special research project to build a product to help publishers and work with ad-blockers to ensure well-behaved ads could be shown to users.</p> <p>After that project, I joined the team that worked on integration with marketplaces. When an advertiser is using a marketplace they engage in high-speed bidding that occurs within 10’s of milliseconds. In that time DoubleVerify must provide analysis to the bidding agents so they can better assess the quality of an ad space and bid more effectively. Through this I got my first real experience with truely “Big Data”. We used Kafka to process impressions from social media sources and move them into our data lake for analysis and exploration. I gained a ton of SQL experience, upgrading and maintaining legacy systems which required huge and complex ETL processes.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Software Engineer</h1> <p>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:41:53 -0400</p> <h3 id="first-start-up-experience">First Start-up Experience</h3> <p>Namely was a start-up focusing on HR and Payroll.</p> <p>I was hired through a forum for Golang developers. I was self-taught in the technology and very excited about it. I was hired as their first engineer versed in Golang. The plan was to start to build-up and multi-technology team and break up our existing Ruby-on-Rails Monolith into Golang and Ruby microservices. The first project in this effort was building a service which managed our customer database and enabled queries for current data as well as historical data.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Buscar</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</p> search </article> <article> <h1>Footer</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</p> <section id="contact" class="section section--contact pt-0"> <div class="container"> <div class="contact w-100"> <h2>Reach out</h2> <div class="row pt-2"> <div class="col-12 col-lg-7"> <form action="https://formspree.io/f/moqoerba" method="POST" class="contact__form"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-12 col-sm-6"> <input type="text" name="full_name" class="form-control" placeholder="Your name"> </div> <div class="col-12 col-sm-6"> <input type="email" name="email" class="form-control" placeholder="Your e-mail"> </div> </div> <div class="row pt-4"> <div class="col-12"> <input type="tel" name="phone" class="form-control" > </div> </div> <div class="row pt-4"> <div class="col-12"> <textarea name="message" class="form-control" rows="2" placeholder="Your message"></textarea> </div> </div> <div class="row pt-4"> <div class="col-12"> <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Send message</button> </div> </div> </form> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-5 contact__info"> <h3>My mail</h3> <span>me@gianbiondi.com</span> <h3>My location</h3> <span>Newark, NJ USA</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </article> <article> <h1>Printable CV</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</p> <p>ℹ This page is a demo of the printer-friendly output of the theme. You can find the source code in the demo repo (<a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zetxek/adritian-demo/refs/heads/main/content/cv.md%29">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zetxek/adritian-demo/refs/heads/main/content/cv.md)</a>. Try printing it directly from your browser!</p> <h3 id="about-me">About me</h3> <p>I am a passionate software engineer with over 10 years of experience building web applications and distributed systems. My expertise spans full-stack development, cloud architecture, and leading engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions. I thrive on solving complex technical challenges while mentoring others and fostering a collaborative engineering culture.</p> </article> <article> <h1>Search</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</p> search </article> <article> <h1>Search Hidden Content</h1> <p>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</p> <p>This content should never appear in search results. Unique keyword: omitfromsearch.</p> </article> </main></body></html>