Education
BCIS, Cybersecurity & Networks
Auckland University of Technology — expected 2027. GPA 7.41 / 9.0.
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Kia ora, I’m Oli.
A Cybersecurity and Networks major in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, building and running self-hosted infrastructure — and increasingly, agentic AI development on top of it.
View my workWhat I actually build.
Firstly, you might actually be the first person to read this — so congrats! Besides that sad fact, I spend a lot of my time integrating AI into my homelab through agentic development: building MCP servers that let AI act as a coworker rather than a chatbot.
Most of it runs on a Hetzner VPS in Germany and a Proxmox hypervisor at home, hosting a self-hosted media server, an open-source Bitwarden-compatible vault, and a growing set of AI/MCP services I’ve built myself.
Security is central to how I build and ship all of this. Almanac, my self-hosted long-term memory server, is a good example: it’s exposed over MCP so any authorised AI model can access a knowledge base of me, my projects, and my preferences — the key word being authorised. Because MCP has to run over the public internet, I secured it with passkey authentication, with enrolment locked behind a panel reachable only over my Tailscale mesh VPN, open for a ten-minute window at a time.
Technical focus
Auth · Networks · Linux · AI/MCP
OAuth and role-based access, Tailscale/WireGuard meshes, Pi-hole DNS, Docker services — and now MCP servers that let AI act on that infrastructure securely.
Currently learning
Network security & agentic AI
Working through network security and systems administration coursework, and expanding the homelab into agentic AI tooling — MCP servers, automation, and secure AI-to-infrastructure access.
Beyond the screen
800+ hours of community service
St John Youth and Student Volunteer Army. Awarded the Grand Prior’s Award for leadership and contribution.
Off the résumé.
I’m Oli, a cybersecurity and networks student at AUT in Auckland. I run a Raspberry Pi homelab where I manage DNS filtering with Pi-hole, VPN access with Tailscale, and self-hosted services including a Jellyfin media server, an arr stack, and Vaultwarden — all behind proper access control on a private network.
I’ve built a personal finance dashboard that aggregates my accounts through Akahu, New Zealand’s open banking API, into a single view. I’m also running a VPS to start hosting my own MCP servers, extending the same infrastructure work into AI tooling.
I’ve also built and deployed a full-stack house points tracking app with Google OAuth and role-based access control, now in use at Kingsway.
Outside of that I teach drums, play in a band called Last Minute, and work behind the bar at Shed 16.
Currently looking for a cybersecurity internship where I can apply what I’ve built at home to real systems.
Things I’ve built and run.
A few practical builds across security, networking, infrastructure, and AI integration — production code, real users, and the long tail of running something yourself. Tap a card for details.
What I work with.
An honest snapshot of where I’m at — some solid, some still growing. I’d rather list what I’ve actually used than pad it out.
Security & networking
- Authentication & role-based access control
- VPNs — WireGuard / Tailscale
- DNS & TCP/IP fundamentals
- Network monitoring
AI & automation
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers
- Agentic development workflows
- LLM integration & tool use
- Workflow automation (n8n)
Systems & tooling
- Linux administration
- Docker & self-hosting
- Cloud / web hosting
- Full-stack development (JS / TS)
Currently learning
- Network security (coursework)
- Systems administration
- Certifications — in progress
Open to cybersecurity and AI development internship, graduate, and junior roles — especially anything touching auth, infrastructure, or AI integration. Auckland-based, and happy to talk to anyone.