Name: Alex
Email: alexcastellanos.tech@gmail.com
Location: Wisconsin, USA

Summary Lead Architect at Vardhana Labs and Systems Thinker specializing in autonomous infrastructure agents. I leverage an enterprise-grade R&D environment—featuring Dell and HP ProLiant nodes with 500GB+ RAM—to build resilient, security-first systems.

Skills

  • Infrastructure: Proxmox/Ceph HCI, Juniper Networking (VLANs, LACP), Enterprise Hardware.
  • Security: Anomaly Detection, Micro-segmentation, SIEM Integration, and Disaster Recovery.
  • Automation: Python (Proxmoxer), Scripting, and Deployment Playbooks.

Experience

  • IT Intern — Blackhawk Technical College (Summer 2025)
    Imaging, firewall overview, VLANs, port testing, cable termination & documentation.

Education

  • IT Technical Support Specialist (AAS) — BTC (in progress)
  • High School Senior, RUHS (2025–2026)

Certs/Courses

  • Enterprise Fundamentals: Storage (including cloud, hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud models)
  • Enterprise Fundamentals: Scripting & Automation
  • Virtualization: Hyper-V and VMWare Foundations

  • and more similar courses

  • Tech+ planning towards Security+ and Network+