About Me
Hey, I'm phreck! 👋
I am a hacker and tech nerd based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I enjoy tinkering with code, homelabs, open source, decentralized technologies, and making physical things
🖥️🛠️ Homelab & Over-Engineering
I don’t just host standard home servers; I host a disproportionate amount of enterprise plumbing in my closet. I run a full Wi-Fi 7 network stack throughout the house, backed by a 10GbE fiber backbone connecting my compute clusters and storage pools, with 2.5GbE run out to the edge. If it can be dockerized, containerized, or run in a Kubernetes pod, it lives here. Currently running local Ollama and vLLM instances because hosting my own deep reasoning setups is far more fun (and loud) than renting cloud instances.
🛠️ Additive & Subtractive Fabrication
I own and tinker with more fabrication equipment than is socially reasonable. When it comes to additive manufacturing, I build and maintain custom Voron printers, including a modified Switchwire and a V0.2, alongside a Bambu Labs X1C for high-speed prototyping and an Anycubic Photon Mono M5s for high-resolution resin models. For subtractive manufacturing, I carve aluminum, wood, and acrylic on a Makera Carvera desktop CNC. If a mount, bracket, or enclosure doesn’t exist, I design it in Fusion 360 and fabricate it.
🎮 Gaming & Flagship PC Builds
I build gaming rigs that completely ignore the concept of “price-to-performance ratio,” optimizing instead for pure, unadulterated hardware overkill. I spend too much time reading hardware specs, building water-cooled loops, and finding excuses to justify upgrading to the latest flagship CPU/GPU combination.
⏳ My Journey
Engineering and Security Leader
Leading engineering and security teams, driving technical strategy, and delivering secure, scalable software solutions. I specialize in bridging the gap between deep systems architecture and developer velocity.
United States Marine Corps
Served honorably as a Cyber and Network Communications Specialist. Gained extensive tactical experience in network security, systems administration, and secure communications. Deployed overseas to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
Technology Junkie and Hacker
I got my first Commodore 64 when I was five years old, wrote simple programs in BASIC, and immediately fell down the technology rabbit hole. That naturally led to Unix, discovering Linux and BSDs, and falling in love with open-source development and hacker culture. I’ve been tinkering, hacking, and contributing to the open-source community ever since.