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Jason Buonopane

28 years of enterprise IT infrastructure. Builder of systems that don't go down.

// about

28 years of enterprise IT infrastructure. 19 of those at an international law firm, where I was trusted to relocate and build the San Francisco office from scratch and run it solo for 200+ users with zero downtime tolerance. Today I'm one of two IT engineers at IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), owning the full stack under PCI DSS compliance: Active Directory, M365 / Entra ID, network infrastructure, firewalls, VLAN segmentation, endpoint management, and vendor relationships.

On my own time, I build. Six production projects and counting, covering Terraform and AWS, Python automation, observability stacks, and AI-assisted operations tooling. The builder work is how I stay current: it's evidence that the engineer running your infrastructure today is the same one who keeps learning what's coming next. I use Claude Code heavily, and coined the term "intent coding" because the experience drives the architecture and the AI accelerates the execution.

The tools changed, the thinking didn't.

Currently pursuing Infrastructure Systems Engineer, IT Systems Engineer, and Security-focused infrastructure roles.

// experience

Where the 28 years actually happened.

Ropes & Gray LLP

19 years

Sole IT, San Francisco office

›Relocated and built the SF office from scratch, then ran it solo for 200+ attorneys and staff
›Zero-downtime environment across VMware, Active Directory, SCCM, telecom, and full vendor management
›Single point of accountability for everything from cabling to citrix to executive support

IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group)

Current

Senior IT Analyst, two-person team

›Full-stack IT ownership under PCI DSS compliance: AD, M365 / Entra ID, networking, endpoints, vendors
›VLAN segmentation, firewall policy, and pen test remediation across the corporate environment
›Day-to-day operations plus project work: hardening, migrations, and security posture improvements

$ skills --core

Windows ServerActive DirectoryM365 / Entra IDNetwork InfrastructureFirewallsSecurity ComplianceTerraformMonitoringPython Automation

// projects

What I build when nobody tells me what to build.

Grafana dashboard showing homelab infrastructure metrics

Home Infrastructure

Enterprise-Grade Homelab

Dual Proxmox hypervisors. pfSense dual-WAN with automatic failover. Brocade ICX7250 managed switching. 4-VLAN segmented network across ~100 devices. 22+ Docker containers. Full Grafana/Telegraf/InfluxDB observability stack with custom SNMP and HTTP collectors. Frigate NVR with Google Coral TPU. Synology NAS (35TB). Everything monitored, everything automated, everything documented.

~100 devices | 22+ containers | 35TB storage | 4 VLANs

ProxmoxpfSenseDockerGrafanaTelegrafInfluxDBFrigateCoral TPUBrocadeSynology

pfSense Backup Tool 18 Stars

SimplyRaffle

SaaS Platform on AWS with Terraform

Built for my kids' school Color Fun Run, turned into a multi-tenant SaaS platform. Magic-link authentication, weighted random draw algorithm, live draw theater with animations, admin dashboard. Originally on Railway, migrated to AWS EC2 with fully Terraform-managed infrastructure and Cloudflare Tunnels for ingress.

Full-stack SaaS | Next.js + PostgreSQL | AWS + Terraform

Next.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLAWS EC2TerraformCloudflare TunnelsPrisma

GitHub Live

VoxWatch dashboard showing recent detections and response pipeline

Open Source

VoxWatch

Open-Source AI Security Deterrent

When Frigate detects a person on camera, VoxWatch warns them over the speaker, then escalates with AI-generated descriptions of their appearance and behavior in real time. Four-stage detection pipeline. 10 response modes including simulated police dispatch with radio effects. Seven TTS providers with automatic fallback. Camera zones with shared cooldowns. Home Assistant integration via MQTT.

~45,000 lines | Python + React | GPL v3 | Open Source

PythonReactTypeScriptDockerMQTTFrigate NVRgo2rtcAI Vision APIsTTSFastAPI

GitHub Website

breadAI

AI-Powered Infrastructure Monitoring

28,000-line async Python platform that performs automated daily audits across my home network. Pulls data from 30+ sources, runs multi-model AI analysis with automatic fallback chains, detects anomalies, predicts trends, and correlates issues across devices. When it finds something wrong, it tells me in Discord. When I have a question, I ask it and it investigates in real time.

28,000 lines | Python | Claude API + Ollama

PythonClaude APIOllamaDiscord BotAsyncProxmox APIpfSenseSNMPGrafana

GitHub

Built in 48 hours

Fleet Operations Portal

Endpoint Management Operations Platform

Five operational modules on top of Fleet's API: Compliance Troubleshooter (Claude API explains non-compliance in plain English), Security Posture Dashboard (fleet-wide CIS scoring with trends), Zero-Day Response Pipeline (CISA KEV feed mapped to osquery policies), Notion Compliance Log (auto-creates records via Notion API), and Supply Chain Hardening.

Python + TypeScript | 26 commits | 8 ADRs | MIT License

FleetosqueryCIS BenchmarksPythonTypeScriptClaude APINotion APIDocker

GitHub

SLZ Lights

Community Christmas Light Display

12,500+ light synchronized Christmas display for the neighborhood. Custom sequencing, controllers, and community engagement. Because sometimes you build things just to make people smile.

12,500+ pixels | Custom sequences | Community favorite

xLightsPixel ControllersNetworkingCommunity

Website

// philosophy

I build monitoring for the monitoring. If the alerting system fails silently, nobody knows anything is broken.

Every function gets clear comments. Not because I'll forget, but because the next person shouldn't have to guess.

I don't vibe code. I intent code. 28 years of experience tells me what to build. Claude Code helps me build it faster.

Ship it, then improve it. But never ship it broken.