Daniel Treccagnoli Personal IT Portfolio

A serene, dimly lit network closet conversion in a residential space, featuring a short open-frame rack mounted against a clean white wall. The rack holds a rackmount router, switch, and 2U server, each with clearly visible hostnames on subtle labels. Blue and white Ethernet cables are perfectly managed along vertical cable organizers, curving neatly into patch panels. A small laminated network diagram is magnetically attached to a nearby metal panel. A warm, focused LED ceiling light illuminates the equipment, creating gentle highlights on metallic surfaces while leaving the room edges in soft shadow. Photographic realism, shot from a low, angled perspective emphasizing vertical lines and tidy structure. The atmosphere feels quiet, reliable, and thoughtfully engineered, capturing the transformation of a home space into a professional-grade IT homelab for a personal portfolio feature.

Homelab Portfolio

Exploring my self‑hosted lab, core platforms, and real projects that mirror production IT environments.

An elegant top-down view of a small-scale network lab layout on a dark wooden surface, featuring a compact rack-mounted firewall, a 24-port switch, and a low-profile server, each with tiny, clearly visible labels like “FW-01,” “SW-CORE,” and “LAB-SRV.” Short, precisely arranged Ethernet patch cables in distinct colors create a visually satisfying pattern between devices. Beside the hardware lies an open notebook with hand-drawn network diagrams and subnet notes, next to a USB drive and a neatly coiled fiber patch cable. Soft, overhead studio lighting produces gentle shadows and highlights the texture of brushed aluminum and plastic. Photographic realism with a flat-lay composition, sharp focus across the frame. The scene feels methodical, hands-on, and exploratory, perfect for illustrating the planning side of homelab projects in an IT portfolio.

Inside the Lab

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A virtual infrastructure dashboard projected as if floating above a sleek dark desk, with multiple semi-transparent windows representing hypervisors, VMs, storage pools, and backups. Each panel shows clean, legible charts, status indicators, and logical groupings, using a modern dark theme with cyan and lime accents. On the physical desk below, a closed matte-black laptop with a small homelab logo sticker rests beside a labeled external SSD. Subtle under-desk RGB lighting in cool tones softly illuminates the lower edges. Photographic realism blended with light futuristic UI elements, captured from a slightly elevated angle with shallow depth of field, keeping the projections sharp and the room background softly blurred. The mood is sophisticated and forward-looking, ideal for illustrating virtualization and automation projects in an IT homelab portfolio.
A compact, meticulously organized IT homelab rack against a dark matte wall, filled with neatly stacked black and silver servers, a small 2U NAS with soft blue status LEDs, and a tidy 24-port switch labeled with crisp white tags. Thick, color-coded Ethernet cables form graceful arcs, carefully bundled with Velcro ties. A quiet, mid-tower lab PC with a tempered glass side panel reveals glowing internal components. Soft, cool-white LED strip lighting runs along the rack edges, casting subtle reflections on the brushed metal surfaces. Photographic realism, shot at eye level with a slightly wide angle, sharp focus throughout. The atmosphere feels calm, professional, and controlled, embodying a clean, modern personal lab environment for a serious IT portfolio homepage.
The interior of a custom-built homelab server on an open workbench, captured with the side panel removed to reveal meticulously arranged components. A black full-size motherboard holds multiple RAM sticks with subtle metallic heat spreaders, a low-profile CPU cooler, and two NVMe drives visible between PCIe slots. Several neatly routed power and data cables are tied flat against the case, avoiding airflow paths to three large, slowly spinning fans with a faint white glow. A small UPS unit and a labeled SSD cloning dock sit in the background. Directional, cool studio lighting from the left creates crisp reflections along heatsinks and case edges. Photographic realism, medium close-up from a slightly elevated angle, with shallow depth of field. The mood is technical, precise, and quietly powerful, ideal for showcasing hardware-focused homelab builds.
A minimalist home workstation dedicated to homelab management, featuring a single ultra-wide monitor displaying a dark-themed dashboard of virtual machines, network topology, and resource graphs. The monitor sits on a light oak desk with a matte black mechanical keyboard and a compact, silent mouse beside it. A small, fanless homelab mini-PC and a tiny 5-port managed switch rest to the side, status LEDs glowing softly. Daylight from an unseen window provides diffused, neutral lighting, with gentle reflections on the monitor’s bezel. Photographic realism, captured from a three-quarter angle with shallow depth of field, leaving the wall and background slightly blurred. The mood is focused and efficient, showcasing a clean, modern, and distraction-free control center for an IT professional’s personal portfolio.

Services

A compact, meticulously organized IT homelab rack against a dark matte wall, filled with neatly stacked black and silver servers, a small 2U NAS with soft blue status LEDs, and a tidy 24-port switch labeled with crisp white tags. Thick, color-coded Ethernet cables form graceful arcs, carefully bundled with Velcro ties. A quiet, mid-tower lab PC with a tempered glass side panel reveals glowing internal components. Soft, cool-white LED strip lighting runs along the rack edges, casting subtle reflections on the brushed metal surfaces. Photographic realism, shot at eye level with a slightly wide angle, sharp focus throughout. The atmosphere feels calm, professional, and controlled, embodying a clean, modern personal lab environment for a serious IT portfolio homepage.

Virtualization and directory services with Proxmox and Active Directory to model enterprise environments and manage access across lab systems.

A serene, dimly lit network closet conversion in a residential space, featuring a short open-frame rack mounted against a clean white wall. The rack holds a rackmount router, switch, and 2U server, each with clearly visible hostnames on subtle labels. Blue and white Ethernet cables are perfectly managed along vertical cable organizers, curving neatly into patch panels. A small laminated network diagram is magnetically attached to a nearby metal panel. A warm, focused LED ceiling light illuminates the equipment, creating gentle highlights on metallic surfaces while leaving the room edges in soft shadow. Photographic realism, shot from a low, angled perspective emphasizing vertical lines and tidy structure. The atmosphere feels quiet, reliable, and thoughtfully engineered, capturing the transformation of a home space into a professional-grade IT homelab for a personal portfolio feature.

Monitoring, logging, and CI/CD pipelines using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and GitLab to track health, test changes, and deploy safely.