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2025

Firewall Inception: My pfSense Lab with Proxmox, Cloudflared, and Tailscale
2653 words·13 mins
Projects AI Development Infrastructure Cloud Programming
A simple pfSense ACL project turned into a homelab adventure: Proxmox networking, Cloudflared proxying, and Tailscale inception for remote access.
Who's monitoring my monitoring Infrastructure? Desigining for observability with Grafana stack
1922 words·10 mins
Projects Network Development Cloud Infrastructure Cybersecurity
In this post, I go through the design process of setting up a monitoring stack with Grafana and Prometheus, along with a couple of Prometheus custom node exportes, inside a Tailscale network, to monitor a SIEM collection infrastructure stack. Link to Github repository: Argandov/Engineering-Patterns Monorepo for a collection of infrastructure & automation patterns for different purposes. Python 1 0
Logs as Code: Building Iris
1297 words·7 mins
Projects Cloud Security
A weekend project turned into Project Iris - A serverless ETL pipeline that bridges the gap between modern vulnerability management and SIEM platforms. This first post dives into the first decisions, challenges, and lessons learned in building a cost-effective, secure, and scalable solution using Google Cloud Platform.

2024

CSPM Pt 1 Deepfence Threatmapper Installation & Tests
267 words·2 mins
Projects AWS Cloud HomeLab Infrastructure Networking Cybersecurity
I’m installing and testing Deepfence’s Threatmapper for the first time, an Open Source Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) - To test it against some use cases and understand it a bit better.