Hey there, I’m Max 👋

I’m a cloud and platform engineer with over a decade of experience building reliable infrastructure and automation. I’ve led small, agile teams that halved delivery times and reduced costs by more than 20%. I enjoy turning complex problems into practical systems that work well for everyone.

Outside work, you’ll usually find me tinkering with my homelab and home network, running AI models locally, experimenting with Linux, archiving the web, automating everyday tasks, or exploring retro games, handhelds and small-form-factor devices.

• homelab and kubelab run my home network and Kubernetes clusters, built with OpenTofu and Flux.
• minilab is where I put small self-hosted apps.
• flylab runs outside monitoring for my homelab on Fly.io.
• images builds the container images I use from pinned upstream sources.
• studio is my fork of the HEISS UI ComfyUI front end, with multi-user accounts and an MCP server.
• agents holds the agent skills and guidance I use across my repositories.
• dotfiles sets up my Mac workstation with chezmoi and Mise.
• tofusort sorts and formats OpenTofu and Terraform files.
• actual-up syncs my Up bank transactions into Actual Budget.
• homeassistant-beszel-integration and homeassistant-energy-locals-integration are Home Assistant integrations I maintain.
• esphome holds my ESPHome device configurations and custom components.
• trmnl-builds builds TRMNL e-ink firmware you can flash from the browser.
• bluemax builds my custom Bazzite Deck image for gaming and a uCore image for homelab servers.
• signtools-builder runs SignTools builds on GitHub Actions over Tailscale.
• ios-jellystar is my experimental iOS 16 port to the Unihertz Jelly Star.