Dani Tiago Faria dos Santos

SysAdmin

Contact

GitHub | LinkedIn | danitiago@fariadossantos.com

About

A minimalist by nature who believes in the power of simplicity—designing solutions that are straightforward, efficient, and effective. Passionate about open source technologies, basketball, photography, and classic JRPGs.

No, I don't know how to repair printers.

TL;DR

SysAdmin @eeproperty (2023–2024): Built and managed IT infrastructure from scratch, achieved Cyber-Safe certification, deployed AD, Exchange, virtualization, and led IT support for a 30-person company.
IT Trainee @Nestlé (2020–2021): Developed internal apps, automated workflows with Power Automate, built dashboards with Power BI, and deployed streaming solutions for training.
Education: Ongoing Bachelor's in Networks and Systems (HEIG-VD), Professional Maturity (CEPV), CFC in IT (ETML).
Key Projects: VoIP with Asterisk, cloud infra for a school (Azure), Pi Kubernetes cluster, Grafana dashboards, self-hosted cloud services (Proxmox, FreeNAS), and automated backups.
Skills: Networking, virtualization (Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes), cloud (Azure), scripting (Bash, PowerShell), monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus), DevOps, cybersecurity, and cross-platform system admin.

Experience

2023 - 2024

SysAdmin @eeproperty

Implementation of the "Cyber-Safe" label: Study, implementation of the "Cyber-Safe" IT security charter, and certification through an external audit.
Creation and management of an IT department: Establishment and supervision of an IT service for a 30-person SME.
Deployment of a corporate network: Study, design, and deployment of a secure network infrastructure.
Active Directory Domain Management: Implementation and administration of an Active Directory Domain for centralized user and resource management.
Migration to Exchange: Planning and execution of the migration to Microsoft Exchange to improve email and collaboration management.
Virtualization and containerization: Deployment of virtualization and container solutions (Docker, etc.) to optimize resource usage and deploy services flexibly.
Workstation management: Configuration and maintenance of Windows, Linux, and MacOS workstations.
Cybersecurity awareness: Training users on cybersecurity best practices.
IT support: Technical assistance for incident resolution and daily maintenance.
IT vendor management: Coordination and oversight of outsourced IT services.

2020 - 2021

IT trainee @Nestlé

Application development: Developed various PowerApps, HTML, and PHP applications to meet specific business needs.
Task automation: Automated processes using Microsoft Power Automate (RPA) to improve operational efficiency.
Dashboard creation: Designed interactive dashboards with Microsoft Power BI for better data visualization and analysis.
Implementation of video streaming solutions: Deployed a video streaming/virtual studio solution for online training sessions at "Maison Cailler."
IT maintenance and support: Provided support and maintenance for office productivity solutions to ensure optimal performance and continuous technical assistance.

2000 - 20XX

Always learning.

Formation

2022 - 2026

HEIG-VD: Bachelor Degree Newtorks and Systems

2021 - 2022

CEPV: Professional Maturity, architecture and life sciences

2016 - 2020

ETML: CFC, Information Technology

Projects

VoIP

Installed and configured a VoIP infrastructure using Asterisk for a school project, enabling internal communication and hands-on understanding of telephony systems.

Video Streaming Solution

Deployed a fast and reliable video streaming and virtual studio solution for online training sessions at "Maison Cailler." Also supported live streaming for internal events such as InGenius during the pandemic.

Azure Management and Configuration

Designed and implemented a cloud-based infrastructure for ETML as part of my TPI project. The solution enables students to create and manage virtual machines and resources in a cloud environment, replacing the need for local tools like VirtualBox. The platform remains in use today and helps teachers monitor student progress and provide support more efficiently.

Network Monitoring Dashboard

Designed and deployed a lightweight network monitoring dashboard using Grafana, Prometheus, and Node Exporter to track performance, uptime, and resource usage of personal and small-scale enterprise infrastructure.

Pi Cluster with Kubernetes

Built a Raspberry Pi cluster to explore container orchestration, load balancing, and service scaling with Kubernetes. Used it to self-host services like Jellyfin, Gitea, and Pi-hole.

Automated Backup System

Implemented a secure, automated backup system using rsync, cron and FreeNAS across local and remote machines to ensure data integrity and versioned file history with minimal resource consumption.

Self-hosted Cloud Infrastructure

Set up a self-hosted environment for services such as file sharing, media streaming, and encrypted communication using tools like FreeNas, Jellyfin, and WireGuard on a Proxmox server setup.

Home Lab

Learning through sandbox environments and hands-on projects using open source technologies such as hypervisor virtualization, Kubernetes, Pi-hole, VPNs, cloud storage, and media center platforms.