• 👋 Hello, I’m Ben: currently a Graduate Material Science Engineering student at Morgan State University.

I'm a networking and automation-focused builder who loves designing, self-hosting, and connecting systems that actually do useful work. I enjoy understanding how things work end-to-end — from networking and infrastructure to workflows and AI-powered automation.

I’m interested in self-hosted services, developer tooling, and applied AI.

• Building reliable self-hosted infrastructure
• Automating workflows that save time and reduce manual work
• Experimenting with local AI and RAG systems
• Learning by doing — breaking things, fixing them, and improving them

I run a personal home lab where I design, deploy, and maintain services including:

• 🎬 Media Services
  • Jellyfin and supporting services
• 🔁 Automation
  • n8n for workflow automation
  • Email sorting, customer-service-style workflows, and integrations
• 🧠 Local AI
  • Ollama for running LLMs locally
  • RAG agents built on custom data sources
• 🗄 Backend & Data
  • Self-hosted Supabase
• 🌐 Networking & Access
  • Cloudflare Tunnel (cloudflared) for secure external access
  • Custom domain routing
  • Pi-hole for network-wide ad blocking
  • PiVPN for secure remote access to my home network

This setup gives me hands-on experience with networking, security, service orchestration, and uptime management.

Some things I’ve built:

• 📧 Automated Email Sorter
  • Categorizes and routes emails using logic and AI
• 🧾 Customer Service Workflows
  • Automated response pipelines using n8n
• 🔍 RAG Agents
  • Retrieval-augmented generation over custom knowledge bases
  • Designed to answer questions from private/local data
• 🔗 Service Integrations
  • APIs, webhooks, and event-driven workflows

My focus is on practical AI — not demos, but systems that actually solve problems.

Infrastructure & Networking

• Linux
• Docker
• Cloudflare (Tunnels, DNS)
• VPNs (PiVPN, WireGuard)

Automation & Backend

• n8n
• Supabase
• REST APIs
• Webhooks

AI & Data

• Ollama
• RAG pipelines
• Prompt design
• Local-first AI systems

Other

• Git & GitHub
• Self-hosted services
• System monitoring & maintenance

I’m interested in opportunities where I can:

• Work on automation, infrastructure, or AI-powered systems
• Learn from experienced engineers
• Build tools that are practical, reliable, and impactful

• GitHub: github.com/yourusername
• reach me at czogueri@gmail.com

Thanks for stopping by — feel free to check out my repositories or reach out!