alex woods

@alexwoods

shipping my next hobby

hi! i'm alex — this is my personal website where i put the things i make and show off the fun parts of my life!

hello, my name is alex

optimizing my homelab

I fix hardware for a living, and build software for fun. Most nights I'm either up till 2am debugging a service on my homelab, or going down a rabbit hole on how to make my 10yr old video game console run linux.

I build the tool, then I meticulously refine it. That's the throughline: a caffeine tracker, a deprecated wireless headphone features manager, a local subway kiosk; each one starts as something I needed, and ends as something I'd love to show off.

Before any of this I was competing and coaching professionally in League of Legends, and robotics before that. Always trying to bring my unique mindset to figure out the system and solve it in the best way possible.

born in: USA
grew up in: san francisco
lived in: korea
lived in: japan
currently: contracting as a network infrastructure technician · making launch videos in sf

experience

jun 2026 – present

Tatum Integration

network infrastructure technician (contract)

multi-site bank network conversions and an enterprise switch refresh — MDF/IDF builds, after-hours cutovers, and same-day remediation.

2018 – present

independent

hardware systems architect

76+ custom high-performance builds stress-validated with zero field failures; motherboard-level tuning and VRAM fault repair on hardware others wrote off.

jun – sep 2022

Robolabs

robotics coach

coached students on VEX robotics and competition strategy; ran the team's server, network, and hosting.

personal infrastructure

              internet
                  │
               tunnel   ingress · auth
                  │
          ┌────────────────┐
          │router / switch │  vlans
          └───────┬────────┘
    ┌────────┬────┴────┬────────┐
┌───┴───┐  ┌─┴─┐   ┌───┴──┐   ┌─┴─┐
│compute│  │nas│   │dns ×2│   │mac│
└───────┘  └───┘   └──────┘   └───┘
    └──nfs───┘
gpu lab · 29 svcs  dns · redundant  producer

nodes: 4 · compute, nas, dns, mac
services: 29 containers · docker compose
network: vlan-segmented · redundant dns · nfs · tunnel ingress

projects

apps

sonytui btop-style terminal client and menu bar app for Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones. done ✓

tidepool Braindump in, day plan out — it writes to your notes, never over them. done ✓

inktomb Paste any link — it lands in Obsidian as a note, with the text intact. done ✓

web

skysmiche Live flight tracking with gates, baggage claim, and where the inbound aircraft is. doing ⟳

clockj A 24/7 subway kiosk — live NYC train times on a wall display. done ✓

hermit Scores apartment listings against your criteria while you browse. done ✓

tools

fishtank ASCII fish, jellyfish and a shark, drifting behind a stream. done ✓

quarry Point it at a URL, get the whole site back as an offline zip. doing ⟳

agent-cockpit A terminal cockpit that fans coding agents out across a homelab. done ✓

driftnet Pulls an Instagram archive off the platform and into a gallery you own. done ✓

games

typefight Typing fighting game — race sentences, land combos. doing ⟳

usagi-diep diep.io, rebuilt in the Usagi Lua engine. doing ⟳

blog

new site 2026-09-04

the old site was down for a while, so here's a small interim page to hold things until the real one is ready.

github languages · 4 public repos · updated 2026-09-04

[c++] 75.5%
[c] 8.8%
[objective-c++] 4.1%
[svelte] 3.9%
[javascript] 3.7%
[other] 3.9%

Building with,

svelte
typescript
python
c++
lua
docker
linux
ubuntu
nvidia
macos
obsidian
tailscale
cloudflare
vercel
ffmpeg
sqlite

contact

name: alex woods
role: network infrastructure technician
based in: san francisco, ca → seattle, wa
email: alex@alexwoods.me
github: github.com/AlexandForests
linkedin: in/alex-woods-and-forests
cv: resume (pdf)