Harry Axford

IT Technician →Linux Sysadmin →Cloud Engineer

About

IT Technician with 3 years supporting multi-site educational environments. Specializing in Microsoft Intune, Apple devices, and M365 administration. Currently building toward Linux system administration through certifications and hands-on homelab work.Daily driver: Arch Linux + Neovim.

Projects

HAXFORD - SearxNG

FEATURED

Privacy-focused search interface using Next.js API routes as a smart proxy. Aggregates results from multiple public SearXNG instances for resilience.

Next.js APIProxy PatternResilience
Custom Interface
Live Demo GitHub

Password Generator

Browser-based secure password generator focusing on DOM manipulation.

JavaScript
Live Demo GitHub

Basketball Scoreboard

Interactive scoreboard with real-time state management.

JS State
Live Demo GitHub

Infrastructure / Homelab

  • Proxmox virtualisation with LXC containers
  • Unraid NAS with NFS/SMB integration
  • UniFi networking stack
  • Docker Compose deployments
  • "Diagnosed storage bottleneck by identifying containers incorrectly stored on network storage vs local NVMe"

Skills

Infrastructure

Proxmox, Docker, LXC, Unraid, UniFi

Microsoft

Intune, Active Directory, M365, Azure fundamentals

Languages

JavaScript, Bash, Python (learning), Lua

Tools

Neovim, Git, Linux (Arch daily driver)

Certifications

Level 3 Azure Support Specialist

Distinction (2025)

CompTIA Network+

In Progress

RHCSA

Planned

Contact

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