Welcome

Rory | Tinkerer | Builder | Problem Solver

I am an Information Networking and Telecommunications (INT) student with an emphasis on fullstack development at Fort Hays State University. My background is rooted in self-directional learning and autonomic experimentation. This site serves as an extension of my portfolio and a brief overview of selected works.

For any other additional details on my professional background, technical skills, or who I am please refer to the navigation menu.

A selected list of my completed projects:

• Installed and configured a Raspberry Pi as the core of a segmented home network.
• Built and deployed a home server for personal backups, media, and containerized services.
• Diagnosed and refurbished multiple PlayStation 3 units that had failed due to faulty capacitors.
• Assembled and configured two MagicMirror smart home displays on ARM64 and x86-64 platforms.
• Repaired e-waste devices, including a smart television with a faulty T-CON board.
• Restored and flashed modified firmware on consumer-grade laptops and routers.

Current projects:

• Porting OpenWRT to an unsupported device, including custom firmware compilation and device tree source authoring based on hardware specifications.
• Developing a proof-of-concept program to webscrape and parse grocery store weekly flyer PDFs.
• Maintaining an ever-expanding virtualized, Linux-based home lab.
• Tending to my garden
• Raising a lovely family
• Holding broken packages!