Austin Thorne
Infrastructure / Systems / Engineering

Austin
Thorne.

IT Infrastructure · Systems Administration · Cloud · Automation

Building and documenting the systems behind the services. A portfolio of hands-on work across local AI infrastructure, cloud hosting, Windows, and endpoint management.

CITADEL / SERVICE PATH
CloudflareDNS + proxy
CitadelUbuntu + UFW
CaddyTLS + reverse proxy
PortfolioNginx / private network
The hosting architecture behind this portfolio.

Selected infrastructure.

01 / Featured projects
01 / LOCAL INFRASTRUCTUREProject notes

Local AI & Agent Infrastructure

Frostmourne

A persistent AI and agent platform. Independent GPU workloads, controlled agent operations, and observability across an Ubuntu Server and Docker foundation.

LinuxUbuntu ServerDockerOllamaGrafana
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02 / CLOUD INFRASTRUCTUREProject notes

Secure Cloud Hosting Platform

Citadel

The Ubuntu VPS behind this portfolio. Hardened SSH access, layered network controls, and a containerized web service behind Caddy and Cloudflare.

UbuntuDockerCaddyCloudflare
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03 / IDENTITY & NETWORKINGProject notes

Windows Enterprise Lab

An isolated Windows Server 2025 lab with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, domain-joined clients, and a physical endpoint for authentication and access testing.

Windows ServerAD DSGroup PolicyVLANs
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04 / CLOUD & ENDPOINTSProject notes

Microsoft Cloud &
Endpoint Management

Hands-on Entra ID and Intune work covering device compliance, Win32 deployment, privileged access, endpoint security, and PowerShell/Graph automation.

IntuneEntra IDPowerShellMicrosoft Graph API
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05 / MONITORING & TELEMETRYProject notes

Infrastructure Observability

Telegraf · InfluxDB · Grafana

The monitoring layer behind Frostmourne: infrastructure and GPU telemetry, dashboard design, and recorded workload captures.

Metric collectionTime-series dataGPU dashboards
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The technology stack.

02 / Technologies & skills

Systems & networking

  • Ubuntu Server
  • Windows Server 2025
  • Active Directory / DNS / DHCP
  • Group Policy / VLANs

Cloud & containers

  • Docker Engine / Compose
  • Caddy / Nginx
  • Cloudflare / TLS
  • UFW / Fail2ban

Identity & endpoints

  • Microsoft Entra ID / PIM
  • Microsoft Intune
  • Defender for Endpoint
  • Endpoint Privilege Management

Automation & visibility

  • PowerShell / Microsoft Graph API
  • Ollama / Hermes Agent
  • Telegraf / InfluxDB / Grafana
  • GPU telemetry
03 / About

A closer look
at the work.

I’m Austin Thorne, an IT and technical operations professional with hands-on experience in infrastructure, systems administration, cloud, networking, and endpoint management.

This portfolio brings together my infrastructure projects and the decisions behind them: how systems connect, how access is controlled, and how their behavior is verified. The site itself is part of that work.