Brian Florez
I design, support, and improve secure IT infrastructure with a strong focus on automation, reliability, and hands-on problem solving.
I design, support, and improve secure IT infrastructure with a strong focus on automation, reliability, and hands-on problem solving.
I’m a bilingual (English/Spanish) IT professional based in Rhode Island with over five years of experience supporting and administering enterprise IT environments. I currently work as a Sr. IT Specialist at UniBank, where I support critical infrastructure, troubleshoot complex systems issues, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure and reliable operations. My technical background includes Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, networking, virtualization, endpoint security, and Linux-based systems. Outside of my professional role, I am actively looking to build homelab and Raspberry Pi projects to deepen my systems administration skills.
Designed and launched a responsive marketing site for Boston Coffee Rescue, built to showcase the truck brand, menu access, catering focus, and mobile-friendly customer experience for events and special bookings.
Visit live site →Designed and launched Tenaro as a modern property operations platform evolving toward SaaS, with owner, tenant, and vendor portals, dedicated HTTPS, role-based access, and a polished production-ready login flow.
Visit live site →Built an initial working network assessment toolkit for safe internal scanning, using discovery-first Nmap workflows, service enumeration, normalized JSON/Markdown reporting, and a structured path toward scoring, exports, and continuous security review.
Leveraging the power of `gemini-cli` within Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) can supercharge your command-line workflow. This project outlines the setup and benefits of integrating an AI assistant into your daily development and administration tasks.
View on GitHub →Homelab environment simulating small-scale enterprise services including DNS sinkhole, internal DNS server, VPN (WireGuard/OpenVPN), and Samba-based NAS with authentication. (More Details to come)
HYPERVM-ON-SCHEDULE is a simple PowerShell approach to automatically ensure your VM only runs during the hours you want and can switch your PC between energy-saving and high-performance modes depending on what you’re doing, like gaming or just letting it idle. No complicated setup, just a straightforward way to keep your VM on schedule and your system running efficiently.
View on GitHub →This project deploys a Rainloop webmail portal on an Ubuntu server using Nginx and PHP-FPM, running securely on port 8081. The primary purpose of this setup is to host and provide browser-based access to publicly available email exports generated via Google Takeout, allowing archived email data to be viewed and searched without relying on third-party email providers. HTTPS is enforced using a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate, with all HTTP traffic automatically redirected to HTTPS to ensure secure access. The portal is exposed through a public domain and is accessible at: https://bflorez.ddns.net:8081 This configuration is intended for personal archiving, email data review, and long-term access to exported mail content in a controlled, self-hosted environment.
View on GitHub →Deployed a self-hosted Open WebUI instance behind a dedicated HTTPS subdomain, designed to connect to a remote Ollama backend for private AI access, experimentation, and future multi-model workflows.
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