Joshua Jackson Heritage

Who am I?

I handle enterprise operations and incident management at The Met Office, keeping critical systems stable and running 24/7. I bring these skills into my home life by creating and maintaining my own fleet of production-grade servers running this website, my Tor mirror, file servers, and much more.

However, that's not me—that's what I do. I skipped university and went straight into a graduate production environment. Although I cut education short, I am still studying on the side for my AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam while always considering myself a student—constantly learning from everyone and everything, and constantly adapting to any environment or system.

I have a very diverse portfolio of languages including Bash, Python, C, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, and PowerShell, while working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS in a professional setting and OCI at home.

What I'm doing now.

I'm hosting a local lab running on Arch Linux. The entire system is fully containerised via Podman and is powering daily utilities like Immich, Nextcloud, and Syncthing.

On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), I am running a hardened Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) instance configured with a webserver operating entirely behind Tor network onion routing to experiment with advanced cryptographic privacy, network isolation, and deep perimeter security.

Where I'm going?

I'm seeking to strengthen my understanding of production-based environments, specifically when involved with Linux while keeping cloud infrastructure in mind. On the back burner, I will keep studying towards the mathematical side of cryptography, as that is a great passion of mine.

TL;DR

I'm a terminal junkie obsessed with Linux and DIY software projects.