Open to chatIT System Administratorthey/them · queer · antifa

Less downtime.
More Spezi.

I'm Tay März — a sysadmin in Göttingen, Germany who keeps production and homelab infrastructure quietly humming. Proxmox, Docker, monitoring, backups. Hobbyist full-stack dev. Caretaker of a slightly over-built homelab.

Currently training as IT specialist @ dikon · 🐧 BTW, I use Arch (CachyOS, technically)

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hi, I'm Tay

they/them · Göttingen, Germany

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Who I am

One person, a few projects.

Based in Göttingen, I manage and secure production and homelab infrastructure — Proxmox, Docker, backups, monitoring, and networking. I build tooling and web apps as a hobby.

I like systems that work, on machines I can touch.

Most days I'm patching a switch, debugging a Proxmox node, tracing a routing oddity, or quietly rotating someone's passwords. Other days I'm soldering JSX and shipping silly little web apps because the brain needs candy too.

I care about privacy, accessibility, and keeping the internet weird. Off-hours: vinyl, mechanical keyboards, queer joy, and cold Spezi.

Queer, anti-fascist, pro-trans. I pick projects with care — I'd rather build less than build for the wrong people.

— Tay März (they/them)

IRL · Göttingen, Germany

stackLinux + chaos

vibequeer & kind

fuelSpezi 🥤

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Last.fm

Not playing anything right now

Years Experience

Self-Hosted Apps

Projects Built

Physical Devices

My Setup

What I use.

Boring tech that just works. Linux everywhere, KDE on the daily, and a healthy amount of yak shaving.

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:++++=====-==:         -*****+
:++========-=.         .=+**+.
.+==========-.            .
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  :++==========.         :+++++++:
   .-===========.        =*****+*+
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tay@taypc

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OS: CachyOS x86_64
Kernel: Linux 7.0.3-1-cachyos
Shell: fish 4.6.0
DE: KDE Plasma 6.6.4
WM: KWin (Wayland)
Theme: Breeze (Dracula)
Terminal: konsole 26.4.0
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (16) @ 4.43 GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070
Memory: 8.32 / 31.22 GiB
Disk: 110 / 472 GiB · btrfs
Locale: en_US.UTF-8

Daily Driver

dev / gaming / daily

CachyOS · KDE Plasma 6 (Wayland)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (16T)
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2070
RAM: 32 GB DDR4
OS: CachyOS · Linux 7.0 zen

Laptop

mobile / on-the-go

Fedora

CPU: Intel Core i5 (7th Gen)
RAM: 16 GB DDR4
USE: Portable work & SSH
OS: Fedora Workstation

What I use

Skills & Technologies

A pragmatic toolbox built from years of running real systems and shipping side projects.

Infrastructure & Ops

Linux (Arch/Debian)
Proxmox
Docker
Nginx

Monitoring & Automation

Prometheus & Grafana
Zabbix
Bash / Shell
n8n

Development (Hobby)

Node.js
Python
React / Next.js
TypeScript

Running on my homelab

Self-Hosted Stack

A small but mighty rack: Proxmox cluster, managed networking, and a curated set of containerized services.

PROXMOX VE

pve-node-01

rolePrimary Node

VMs: Docker Host, Services
LXC: DNS, Proxy, Monitoring

PROXMOX VE

pve-node-02

roleSecondary Node

VMs: Backups, Media
LXC: Automation, Storage

MANAGED SWITCH

HP 2530-48G

roleCore Network Switch

PORTS: 48× GbE + 4× SFP
FEAT: VLANs, LACP, PoE

THIN CLIENT

Dell Wyse 5070

roleAI & Small Apps

USE: Lightweight services, AI tasks
NOTE: Low-power, always-on

SBC

Raspberry Pi 4B

roleAdGuard, DNS, Edge

USE: Network filtering, lightweight tasks
NOTE: Always-on, low-power ARM

Docker · Container Runtime

homelab-cluster · Hermes AI ops

11 services online

Hermesrunning
In-house AI agent (built with Furverse) that helps me triage homelab alerts and answer ops questions in chat.
AdGuard Homerunning
Network-wide DNS filtering — no ads, no trackers, for every device on the LAN.
Zabbixrunning
Enterprise-grade monitoring for hosts, services, and SNMP gear across the rack.
Forgejorunning
Self-hosted Git forge for personal projects, mirrors, and CI runners.
Portainerrunning
Web UI for managing Docker across the cluster.
SearxNGrunning
Privacy-respecting metasearch engine — my default search, no logs, no profiling.

Public services

Free Tools & Services

Tiny utilities I built and host for myself and friends. Free to use, no tracking.

📦

zip.maerz.click

Free Cloud / ShareX uploader service (setup + hosting).

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woah.gayshit.wtf

Mirror of zip.maerz.click — redundant ShareX endpoint with a funny domain.

🔗

maerz.click

Personal URL shortener service (setup + hosting).

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rm-bg.taymaerz.de

Free AI image background remover (hosted service).

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8mb.taymaerz.de

Free video compressor that reduces upload sizes.

My work

Featured Projects

Side projects I've shipped — mostly built around privacy, accessibility, and community.

NEWBuilding in the open

FurverseConvention software, made for furries.

A small studio building convention software, community infrastructure, and the small things in between. Flagship: ConContrl — registrations, vendors, panels and staff in one calm dashboard, mobile-first for ops day.

StudioConventionsCommunityOpen

Visit furverse.io

ConContrl · Field notes

→ furverse.io

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Humngry

v1.4.0 · Track meals, level up your life

The meal tracker that actually doesn't suck. Earn XP like a video game, let on-device ML predict when you're hungry, and keep your data 100% private — no cloud sync, no accounts, no surveillance capitalism.

React NativeExpoPrivacyHealth

Live

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WeatherWeb

Calm weather for everyone

AI-powered weather app that simplified weather checking for autistic users. Reduced cognitive load with a clean, distraction-free interface.

WeatherAIAccessibility

Live

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Zest Search

Search without surveillance

Privacy-focused metasearch engine — fast results without ad tracking, profiling, or the usual surveillance nonsense.

SearchPrivacySelf-hosted

Live

Community Contributions

CSD Northeim Website

Volunteer

Website I built as a hobby contribution for CSD Northeim. Design & build.

csdnom.taymaerz.de →

My Journey

Experience

From web & AI internships to running real-world infrastructure — and a healthy chunk of community work.

Trainee IT Specialist in System Integration
current2025 — Present
dikon Elektronik & IT GmbH · Germany
Support and maintain the company's infrastructure, factory machines, networking, and employees' PCs. Responsible for patch management, monitoring, backups, hardware troubleshooting, and user support across the site.
Junior Development Apprentice
2024 — 2025
Greenmark IT GmbH · Alfeld
Developed and maintained web applications, contributed to new features and internal tools, performed code reviews, and helped improve CI pipelines and deployment processes.
Intern Web & AI Developer
2023 — 2024
AGVolution GmbH · Göttingen
Built backend and frontend components and prototyped a self-hosted AI assistant for agricultural use. Apprenticeship overlapped with studies; worked on integrations and testing.