alex woods
@alexwoodsshipping 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
web
tools
games
blog
- hearth llm case study, the morning digest 2026-10-15
the model i picked for hearth's chat wrote the weakest morning digest headlines, so the digest now runs a 27b model, mostly on the cpu.
- hearth llm case study, rerun on a 2060 2026-10-14
same 15 questions, same four models, a different 6 GB card. answers got up to 2.4x faster, accuracy stayed within run-to-run noise, and the 3b model still wins.
- hearth llm case study 2026-10-11
four small local models, the same 15 questions, three runs each. the 3b model already in production stays.
github languages · 5 public repos · updated 2026-09-14
Building with,
contact
- name
- alex woods
- role
- network infrastructure technician
- based in
- san francisco, ca → seattle, wa
- alex@alexwoods.me
- github
- github.com/AlexandForests
- in/alex-woods-and-forests
- cv
- resume (pdf)