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Lillian Skyler Danforth

IT support

San Francisco, CA · danforthls@skyseekerlabs.net

I'm the person family and friends call: printers, Wi-Fi, viruses, backups, new laptops, and teaching relatives to use them. Behind that is a homelab I run like a small office. I'm looking for help desk and IT support roles.

All projects PDF resume (to come)
Yearsof family and friends ITWindows, macOS, LinuxiOS and Android tooBackupsset up for others, tested on mine2 yearsof network administration study

Skills

Other OSes
Windows 10/11 and Server, Microsoft Office, Hyper-V, macOS, iOS, Android.
Linux
Debian, Arch, Red Hat, NixOS and Gentoo families; Ubuntu Server, Fedora, Pop!_OS, EndeavourOS, Nobara. Fully declarative whole-system config, automated installs and updates.
Infrastructure
ZFS, zrepl, Restic, Docker, Podman, QEMU/KVM, Caddy, WireGuard, Tailscale, SOPS, systemd, Grafana, Loki, octoDNS, SSH with FIDO2 keys.
Hardware
Through-hole and SMD soldering, crimping, multimeters and oscilloscopes; building and repairing desktops, laptops and servers; switches, routers and running cable.
Scripting
Nix and Nix packaging, Bash; basic Python and Java; Arduino.
AI agents
Claude Code and Codex for coding and review, unattended jobs, sandboxing agents away from secrets and the network.

Experience

  1. IT work and the homelab, SkyseekerLabssee projects
  2. Rental Car Detailer, Avis Budget Group, SFO AirportAug–Oct 2025
  3. Elementary and Middle School Chess Coach, Waddell Elementary and Lylburn Downing Middle School, Lexington, VAAug 2023–May 2025
  4. Technical Book Editor, freelanceMar–May 2024

Education

  1. Cyber Security & Network Administration, Virginia Western Community College2023–2025
  2. Electrical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology2021–2022
  3. Electronics Technology (trade and industrial program), Floyd Kay2017–2021

Projects that show it

serious

IT for family and friends

Handle IT for family and friends: installed TVs, printers, sound bars, and audio; fixed internet problems and incorrectly wired A/V; ran Ethernet cable; removed viruses and reinstalled operating systems; set up password managers and Backblaze backups; taught elderly relatives to use their computers; and planned PC builds and helped friends choose laptops.

it-supporthardware
serious

Batteries, thermal paste and a PC build

Replaced the battery in an iPod Classic, replaced several laptop batteries, reapplied thermal paste on many laptops, and built a desktop PC.

hardwarerepair
serious

Self-hosted media and photos, with GPU transcoding

Host Jellyfin and Immich with NVIDIA GPU transcoding, run services in Docker with user-namespace remapping, share files over Samba and NFS, and manage DNS as code with octoDNS on Cloudflare, including the mail records for a Google Workspace domain.

see it →
self-hostingdocker
serious

Hardware-backed SSH keys

Set up FIDO2 hardware-backed SSH keys: a YubiKey-backed key authorizes root SSH access to the home server, the public VPS, and the install ISO, and a TPM-backed key was used on a laptop.

security
serious

Restore drills: 873 GB back in 11 hours

Wrote a restore drill suite, run monthly, and an automated canary check that restore from real ZFS and Restic backups into scratch space and verify the data; a full-scale test restored 873 GB in 11 h 17 min.

see it →
backupstesting
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