Cornel Caba
// senior system engineer
I design, build and run the infrastructure that keeps businesses online, then put agents and automation on top of it.
- 01 business.cornelcaba.com Business is the command centre for my companies: one control plane where each business has its goals, a ticket board and a team of AI agents that work on a monthly budget and wait for my…
- 02 CC Maps — geodata and mapping How to build a self-hosted data map: imports from OpenStreetMap/Overpass, IndicePA and Emilia-Romagna open data, offline geocoding with an OSM index (4.3 million street numbers), ODbL/CC-BY…
- 03 darius.cornelcaba.com A private diagnostics dashboard for crane electrical panels: attach the machine's wiring schematics and get a navigable map of every component, terminal, connector and PLC signal, plus…
- 04 galleria.magicevents.me Photo & video delivery gallery for weddings and events — guests browse, favorite and download via a branded link, no login or app required. Multi-tenant SaaS built on the same stack as…
- 05 gov.cornelcaba.com GOV is a public radar on everything the Italian State and the EU publish: every series of the Gazzetta Ufficiale, the EU Official Journal, TED tenders and inPA public competitions, scored…
- 06 inviti.magicevents.me Digital wedding invitation with RSVP for couples — an envelope that opens like a letter, shared as a link. Create it for free, see it finished, publish it for €19 once. Guests confirm with…
- 07 magicbooth.magicevents.me Photobooth software for Windows that replaces dslrBooth — photo, strip, GIF, boomerang and video booths with live templates, one-tap printing and licenses sold online. Built and operated…
- 08 maps.cornelcaba.com Self-hosted personal map: companies, clients, people, public bodies, POIs and geolocated events. Imports from Google Takeout/KML/GeoJSON/CSV/vCard, self-hosted OSM geocoder, layers, tags…
- 09 marketing.cornelcaba.com Marketing OS is an AI marketing workspace for agencies and SMEs: leads, content, email, SEO, ads, reviews and cookieless analytics in one place, with an AI marketing agent that plans every…
- 10 museo.magicevents.me Museo turns a couple's photos into a walkable 3D gallery in the browser: you upload your story, write a dedication, pick the music, and gift it with a heart-shaped QR code. No app needed to…
- 11 music.cornelcaba.com A music library for content production: personal tracks, Instagram-licensed audio and free Creative Commons music in one searchable place, with every track analysed so reels start on the…
- 12 presentazione.magicevents.me Interactive presentations for live events — the host projects the slides, the audience joins with a QR code and a 6-digit PIN and answers from their phones. Quizzes, polls, word clouds and…
- 13 sport.cornelcaba.com A paid bodyweight-training web app that takes you from your first reps to 100 push-ups, with a plan that adapts to your level and to the equipment you actually have.
- 14 tabere.cornelcaba.com A Romanian-language resource portal for youth summer camps: 1.075 games and activities, each written up as a usable set of rules, plus the tools a camp actually runs on — live quiz from the…
- 15 translate.cornelcaba.com Self-hosted machine translation for every site I run. It is the engine behind the Translate module of cornel's support, the WordPress plugin that serves a site in any language without…
- 16 voice.cornelcaba.com A private, self-hosted voice studio: clone, design and generate speech locally with open-source models, and record the dataset to train a personal Italian voice at studio quality. What it…
- 17 web-development.cornelcaba.com A visual catalog of UI components, dashboards, site templates, text animations, design styles and WordPress plugins — plus the brief form I fill in whenever a new website starts.
- 18 cornelcaba.com This site — my engineering portfolio and personal hub.
- 19 cloud.cornelcaba.com Personal Nextcloud — files, calendars, contacts, self-hosted.
- 20 magicevents.me My entertainment business — sound, lighting, DJ, production.
- 21 ricordi.magicevents.me Digital event photo album — guests upload photos and videos via QR code, no app and no account. Built and operated end-to-end (Node.js, Docker).
- 22 meet.cornelcaba.com Self-hosted video conferencing built on LiveKit — HD calls, multi-stream screen sharing and chat, running entirely on my own server. Guests join from a link in the browser: no app to…
- 23 dnassist.it On-site and remote IT assistance across Italy.
- 24 giovannilapidari.it Trading education and tools by Giovanni Lapidari ("Trader si diventa"). WooCommerce site I built and maintain: the EasyChart technical-analysis course, MetaTrader 4 tools (Dashboard…
- 25 opticagheller.it Optical retail site, designed and operated for the client.
- 26 stiricrestine.ro Romanian Christian news platform, full-stack ownership.
- 27 ravennagravityfighters.com Ravenna Gravity Fighters — indoor climbing gym, custom WordPress build I host and operate.
- 28 Vie Ferrate Vie Ferrate archive I designed and built for Ravenna Gravity Fighters — 438 GPS-mapped via ferrata routes across Italy.
- 29 pdf.cornelcaba.com Self-hosted Stirling-PDF — a full PDF workshop running on my own server: nothing I sign, split or OCR ever leaves my infrastructure.
- 30 convert.cornelcaba.com Self-hosted ConvertX — a universal file converter running on my own server: 1000+ formats in, whatever format you need out, with nothing uploaded to a third party.
- 31 cinema.cornelcaba.com Self-hosted Jellyfin — my private media server: films, series and music streamed to any device, with no subscription and no tracking.
- 32 indelio.eu indelio.eu — site I built and operate end-to-end.
- 33 tandemops.app tandemops.app — site I built and operate end-to-end.
- 34 youtube.cornelcaba.com Self-hosted MeTube — a yt-dlp front-end that pulls video and audio from YouTube and 1000+ other sites straight onto my own storage.
- 35 social.cornelcaba.com Paste a TikTok or Instagram link and get the original video back as an MP4. Public, free, no sign-up, and nothing is stored on the server.
- 36 postiz.cornelcaba.com postiz.cornelcaba.com — self-hosted social media scheduler for publishing and scheduling across 25+ channels.
- 37 Software Repository Self-hosted mirror of the tools, installers and images I keep ready for my infrastructure — always fresh, always available.
- 38 quiz.cornelcaba.com Self-hosted certification quiz platform I built — practice exams generated from official vendor documentation.
- 39 typing.cornelcaba.com Self-hosted typing trainer based on Monkeytype — typing speed tests, WPM, accuracy, multilingual, custom theme. typing test monkeytype tastiera keyboard velocita digitazione battitura wpm…
- 40 med.cornelcaba.com Personal medical library, searchable down to the page — 1,095 textbooks across 77 subjects, in Romanian, Russian and English, with a 3D anatomy atlas built in. Type a term and land on the…
- 41 dj.magicevents.me Browser-based DJ console built for Magic Events — two Web Audio decks with live waveforms, BPM detection, hot cues and auto-crossfade, a private persistent music library, and offline AI…
- 42 wordpress-support.cornelcaba.com Home and download hub for my WordPress support plugin — remote site management, plugin distribution, and migrations over a REST API.
- 43 ccc.cornelcaba.com CCC — my self-hosted command center: a keyless remote-support dashboard that manages a fleet of machines over a private tailnet, paired with a gated OSINT & pentest arsenal — Nmap, Nikto…
- 44 script.cornelcaba.com I miei script eseguibili con una riga, self-hosted. One-liner PowerShell e Bash, con loader opzionale che verifica l'hash SHA256 prima di eseguire.
- 45 testnet.cornelcaba.com Il mio speed test internet, nello stile di fast.com ma con tutti i dettagli: download, upload, latenza a riposo e sotto carico, jitter, bufferbloat e perdita di pacchetti in un'unica pagina.
- 46 trading.cornelcaba.com A multi-broker algorithmic trading platform I built — strategy backtesting, optimization and paper trading in one dashboard.
- 47 code.cornelcaba.com Self-hosted LiveCodes — the code playground I use to test ideas and study front-end, with no local setup.
- 48 server.cornelcaba.com Web console for my private virtualization infrastructure — the OpenNebula FireEdge front-end that drives the whole self-hosted lab: virtual machines, templates, images, datastores, networks…
- 49 secret.cornelcaba.com Self-hosted zero-knowledge note sharing: you type a secret, the browser encrypts it before anything leaves the page, and the recipient gets a one-time link that destroys itself the moment…
- 50 sagre.cornelcaba.com Every village festival in Italy on one map: 5.900+ sagre, fiere and food festivals with dates, address, opening hours and the official programme, rebuilt every month from the open data the…
- 51 autostrade.cornelcaba.com Three tools in a single site, about Italian motorways and fuel. First: the open directory of all 388 service areas across 32 motorways (A1–A35, A91), with catering operator, fuel brand…
- 52 Dropshift Dropshift is my macOS app that converts any file with a Shift + drag: a radial menu appears under the cursor with only the conversions that fit that file's format. Windows version in…
- 53 genealogia.cornelcaba.com Self-hosted family tree with an AI record reader: photograph a Moldovan or Romanian civil-status certificate and it becomes people, events and sources in the tree, after a human check.
- 54 evolution.cornelcaba.com Self-hosted Evolution API — WhatsApp & multi-channel messaging API powering my automations.
About me
./whoami
Senior System Engineer with 10+ years of designing, deploying and operating infrastructure across Linux, Windows and cloud.
I work on every layer: structured cabling and switching, firewalls and VPNs, virtualization on VMware, Hyper-V and Proxmox, Windows Server and Linux, backup and disaster recovery, Azure. Alongside the day job I run my own businesses, so I know both sides of the table: the engineer shipping systems and the owner who needs them to earn.
Everything in the reel above runs on infrastructure I built and operate myself. The direction now is leverage: agents and automation doing the work, with me designing the system around them.
- 10+years in infrastructure
- 200+domains hosted on-prem behind a reverse proxy
- 54projects built and operated, listed above
- 4languages: Romanian, Italian, English, Russian
./experience
- Senior System EngineerdnAssist, Imola
- Senior System EngineerBitways, Faenza
- Assistant IT ManagerGEA, Alfonsine
- First Line Helpdesk SupportGilat Satellite Networks
./skills --hard
- Systems
- Windows Server, Active Directory, Linux, VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, Proxmox
- Network
- Cisco switching, VLAN design, Fortinet, SonicWall, WatchGuard, IPsec and SSL VPN
- Cloud
- Azure, AWS, Microsoft 365, Intune, containers
- Resilience
- Veeam, TrueNAS, backup and disaster recovery
- Automation
- PowerShell, Python, Bash, Ansible, AI agents and workflows
- Web
- WordPress, custom apps, domains, hosting, reverse proxy
Let's talk about your next project
Based in Italy, working remotely worldwide. Write me what you need and what is in the way.