James Ruggles
Infrastructure

Homelab

A production-style home data center: Proxmox on a custom Ryzen build, UniFi networking with VLAN segmentation, 1M-rule DNS filtering, and secure remote access.

ProxmoxUniFiVLANsDocker
Security

Pentest Lab

A fully isolated penetration-testing range: vulnerable targets on an air-gapped network, a dual-homed Kali box as the jump point, and a Snort sensor watching every packet.

KaliProxmoxSnort 3Metasploit
Software

Raccoon Recon

A web-based reconnaissance toolkit for the information-gathering phase of a penetration test. One Go binary, a dark dashboard in the browser, live scan output, and every result saved for the report.

GoSQLiteWebSocketNmap
Security

Operation Dogpark

A graded seven-day red-team engagement against a blue-team-defended network. Recon to Domain Admin, structured like a real assessment with a formal report.

Red TeamPTESMITRE ATT&CKActive Directory
Security

Rent a Dog

A nine-VM enterprise network for a fictional business: built, hardened, monitored, and defended through a week of adversarial pentesting, with an AI-assisted incident-response stack at its core.

EnterpriseSuricataActive DirectoryAI IR
Software

VSC Pathfinder

A quiz-style web app that routes student veterans and dependents to the right education benefit, then hands them a personal checklist. Built for the CSUSB Veterans Success Center. Currently an interactive mockup under staff review.

Product designMobile-firstNo PIIVeterans
Experiments

OpenClaw Assistant

A self-hosted AI assistant running natively on a dedicated Mac Mini, network-isolated on its own VLAN with internet-only access, wired into the homelab.

Self-hostedAImacOSVLAN isolation

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