My Journey

2018

  • Deployed first Ubuntu 18.04 VM in Hyper-V

2019

  • Continued experimenting with Hyper-V
  • Moved to New Zealand
  • Messed around with Virtualbox

2020

  • Started learning VMware Workstation Pro
  • Deployed first Azure Web App
  • Created www.husky.nz
  • Created my Github account
  • Started learning Linux
  • Developed skills with Azure

2021

  • Earned AZ-900 Certification
  • Learned more HTML and the web
  • Deployed my first Active Directory domain on an Azure VM
  • Configured Azure AD Connect to synchronize on-premises Active Directory with Azure Active Directory
  • Remote Desktop Deployment with web access and MFA in Azure
  • Contributed to development of a Azure Site to site vpn and Azure multi-network WAN
  • Developed skills with the Microsoft 365 suite
  • Developed skills with Intune and Windows Autopilot

2022

  • Expanded knowledge of Git and GitHub
  • Studied .NET and .NET websites
  • Began learning AWS
  • Migrated AD Domain from Azure to AWS

2023

  • Migrated AD Domain from AWS to Azure
  • Earned MS-900 Certification
  • Gained work experience at Inde Technology (5 weeks)
  • Began experimenting with Sophos Firewalls
  • Started learning Node.js and TypeScript
  • Began to learn more about Cloudflare

2024

  • Used Azure migrate to move AD domain from AWS to Azure
  • New Zealand Certificate in Information Technology Essentials (Level 4) at Ara
  • Started streaming on Twitch
  • Deployed a new version of www.husky.nz using TypeScript and Astro.js (This site)
  • Had some fun developing https://legacy.husky.nz witch is a website built with HTML3.0 no CSS and no JavaScript
  • Bought a HP DL380 G8 server
  • ESXI + Vcenter 8
  • Started getting the ground for hnz.li a url shortner built because I was annoyed

2025

  • HP remote management
  • Setup Microsoft Configuration Manager in my homelab
  • Setup A SAN in my homelab to Learn and Understand network storage
  • Setup Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop and intrgrated with ESXi and Vcenter to auto provisioning and deployment of VDI vm's
  • Deployed a more advanced Citrix lab with Netscaler, FAS and ADFS for SAML authentication
  • Configured and deployed a Cisco ISR4451 router
  • Expand hnz.li with redis caching to improve performance

2026

  • Dive into Azure Dev ops pipelines
  • Set Up a NSX enviroment with BGP advertisement to VYOS
  • Set up Auto Scaling Azure Devops Pipeline agents on Vmware Tanzu
  • Set up Vmware Tazu
  • Performed Inter Contentel Backup Over Tailscale
  • Migration from Vsphere 8.3 to Proxmox 9
  • reInstall Truenas to improve ZFS performance

2027

  • More to come