How OpenCode + ChatGPT Accelerated My Homelab
“Homelab work is fun until you forget what you changed last night.”
Infrastructure + Systems Engineering
Building resilient infrastructure with a security-first mindset.
I am Mat Leszkiewicz, a support engineer focused on infrastructure reliability, automation, and security operations. This portfolio captures the homelab builds, system projects, and incident response lessons that define how I work.
Current role
Technical Support Engineer
Core focus
Infrastructure + automation
Security lens
Incident response, detection
Stack
AWS, Linux, Docker
Focus Areas
Infrastructure engineering
Platform reliability, system design, and performance-aware operations.
Security operations
Incident response workflows, log analysis, and detection engineering.
Automation and observability
AWS pipelines, tooling, and practical monitoring for production systems.
AI enablement
Applied AI tooling, workflow automation, and ops augmentation.
Homelab series
Ongoing infrastructure builds covering Proxmox, storage, networking, and secure remote access.
How to Choose Your First Home Server Hardware: A Practical Guide
Choosing your first home server starts with understanding your needs, your budget, and how much room you want to leave for future upgrades. Whether you’re le...
Other Projects
geekDb: A Fullstack Movie Database Built with Next.js
geekDb is a full-stack web application inspired by IMDB, developed as part of my journey to deepen my skills in frontend and backend web development using th...
Recent Posts
Homelab Observability: Grafana + Prometheus + Loki
“If it isn’t observable, it’s a rumor.”
Homelab Update: Nextcloud + Music Assistant with Tailscale
“Every new service adds value. Every new service adds a new place to forget a setting.”
How OpenCode + ChatGPT Accelerated My Homelab
“Homelab work is fun until you forget what you changed last night.”
Building My HomeLab: From Scratch to Self-Hosting
“If it ain’t broke, you haven’t installed Jellyfin yet.”
How to Choose Your First Home Server Hardware: A Practical Guide
Choosing your first home server starts with understanding your needs, your budget, and how much room you want to leave for future upgrades. Whether you’re le...
Building Parallel CI/CD Pipelines with AWS at Fundrecs
🧩 Project Overview
geekDb: A Fullstack Movie Database Built with Next.js
geekDb is a full-stack web application inspired by IMDB, developed as part of my journey to deepen my skills in frontend and backend web development using th...
Turning a Raspberry Pi into an RTSP Streaming Server
As part of my academic and personal learning journey into system design, networking, and edge computing, I developed a lightweight RTSP (Real-Time Streaming ...
MyGeekDB: An IMDB-Style Android App in Kotlin
As part of my portfolio and continuous learning in full-stack and mobile development, I created MyGeekDB — an IMDB-style Android app built with Kotlin. The g...