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Shen Milan
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Shen Milan
Homelab enthusiast building highly secure infrastructure architectures, networks, and automated pipeline environments.

Hello, I’m Jhenrick Shen Milan
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I am a highly independent Systems Engineer and IT Specialist with an engineering background and a proven track record of maintaining high-availability, 24/7 production networks. I specialize in enterprise identity governance, cloud administration, automated telemetry tracking, and low-latency broadcast infrastructure.

Whether it’s independently resolving high-stakes production incidents during critical night shifts or designing zero-trust overlay networks from scratch, I focus on building reliable, secure, and observable systems.


Technical Arsenal
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Enterprise Infrastructure & Security
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  • Cloud Governance: Google Workspace (Super Admin), Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory
  • Identity & Access: Identity & Access Management (IAM), User & Group Governance, strict ACL policies
  • Network Security: Enterprise Firewalls (Configuration & Migration), Checkpoint Firewalls, VPN tunnels, Managed Switches, Network Redundancy

Systems, Virtualization & Automation
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  • Operating Systems: Linux (Daily Driver), Alpine Linux, Debian, Arch Linux
  • Virtualization/DevOps: Proxmox VE, Docker, Docker Compose, Unprivileged LXC Containers, Virtual Machines
  • Scripting & Data: Bash, Python, SQL Maintenance, Automated Backups & Cron Automation
  • Hardware & Edge: Raspberry Pi deployments, low-latency Live Video/Audio Encoding, Broadcast Infrastructure

Monitoring & SRE
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  • Telemetry & Observability: Grafana, Zabbix, Automated Alerts & Metrics, System Health Dashboards

Professional Experience
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IT Systems Engineer / Infrastructure Specialist
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Studioworks OÜ | Tallinn, Estonia | Feb 2025 – Present

  • Enterprise Cloud Governance: Serve as Global Administrator for enterprise Google Workspace, managing identities, groups, access controls, and organization-wide security permissions for a highly distributed workforce.
  • High-Availability Operations: Serve as the sole infrastructure anchor during critical night shifts, independently diagnosing, logging, and troubleshooting mission-critical network failures, link degradations, and ISP connectivity issues under intense SLA constraints.
  • End-to-End Infrastructure Deployment: Designed, wired, and deployed complete low-latency video streaming infrastructures from scratch, configuring system connectivity, hardware encoders, and low-level system telemetry for 24/7 production environments.
  • Proactive System Monitoring: Architected and monitored Grafana and Zabbix dashboards to track production system health, proactively remediating network bottlenecks to drastically improve infrastructure uptime.
  • Incident Management: Provided expert 24/7 on-call tier-3 support via remote management tools, rapidly debugging server faults and restoring operations under intense pressure.
  • Technical Documentation: Author of internal training guides, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and automated system manuals to streamline incident resolution and expedite engineering onboarding.

Education & Background
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BSc Integrated Engineering
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Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) | 2021 – 2024

  • Foundational expertise in industrial systems, hardware design, electrical schematic analysis, AutoCAD, and SolidWorks.

Languages
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  • English: Professional Proficiency (C1)
  • Filipino: Native Proficiency (C2)
  • Estonian: Elementary (A1)

Key Highlights & Homelab Philosophy
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Outside of my professional engineering commitments, I maintain an active DevOps Home Lab. I treat my private server matrix—powered by Proxmox hypervisors, segmented Docker microservices, and automated backup routines—as an R&D sandbox to safely stress-test enterprise configurations before deploying them to live production networks.