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# 👋 Hi there — I’m @thesabear
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I’m a curious, self-taught technologist with a passion for breaking things, fixing them, and understanding *why* systems behave the way they do. What started as a hobby homelab project has grown into a full-on journey into DevOps, automation, infrastructure, and security.
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My long-term goal is to build a career in IT—specifically in environments where learning never stops and innovation is part of the culture.
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## 👀 What I’m Exploring
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I spend a lot of time experimenting in my homelab, using it as a real-world playground to deepen my understanding of core IT concepts.
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Some of the areas I’m actively exploring include:
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- Infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code
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- Network design, security, and service reliability
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- Containers, registries, and image hardening
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- Monitoring, observability, and resilient design patterns
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Each project teaches me something new, and everything I learn pushes me further toward becoming a well-rounded IT/DevOps engineer.
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## 🌱 What I’m Learning Right Now
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I’m currently focused on:
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- Building and maintaining secure Docker images
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- Running my own private registry
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- Using GitLab pipelines to automate image updates, security scanning, and deployments
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- Improving scripting skills—Python and Bash are next on my list
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I enjoy understanding not just how something works, but how to automate it, secure it, and integrate it cleanly into a larger system.
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## ⚡ Fun Fact
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I’m entirely self-taught. Every tool, trick, concept, and workflow in my repos is something I learned by doing—from reading docs to breaking my lab at 2 a.m. and fixing it again.
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## 📁 What You’ll Find in This Repository
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This repo serves as a showcase of the things I build and experiment with. Inside, you’ll find:
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- A growing collection of Docker Compose files for various services I run
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- Infrastructure-as-Code projects designed to spin up my entire homelab from minimal, hardened ISO images
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- Configurations, scripts, and templates built around reproducibility, security, and operational simplicity
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My goal is to create solutions that are not only functional, but thoughtfully designed—and to share what I learn along the way.
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### 🚀 Let’s Connect
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[](www.linkedin.com/in/michael-surgey)
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[](https://x.com/nomadianation)
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[](https://nomadianation.thesabear.net/)
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[](https://mywiki.thesabear.net/)
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