Hey, I'm

Chris Duarte

Computer Science student. I build PCs, tinker with homelabs, and mess around with code. This site is where I put it all.

01 About Me

I'm a Computer Science student getting ready to start college. I've spent over a decade around PCs: building them, breaking them, fixing them, and reselling a few along the way. Lately I've been turning that into something more structured, running a small homelab and picking up real networking and Linux skills.

When I'm not elbow-deep in a case full of cables, I'm probably in a ranked match or writing small scripts just to see if I can get them working.

Focus

Computer Science

Currently

Building a homelab

Also into

PC hardware & gaming

Python Linux Networking PC Hardware Git & GitHub

02 Projects

A few things I've built or been tinkering with.

01 Hardware

Custom PC Builds

Picking parts, troubleshooting BIOS settings, and tuning cooling and drivers to build and dial in custom PCs for gaming and everyday use. I've also flipped a few builds and parted-out systems for resale.

02 Homelab

Home Lab Server

Repurposing a small form-factor PC into a home lab, and using it to learn virtualization, basic networking, and self-hosting.

03 Web

This Website

My personal site, built with plain HTML, CSS, and JS and hosted on GitHub Pages with a custom domain.

04 Certifications

Working on Certs

Studying for the certifications that back up the degree and the homelab work. These are the ones that come up most often in computer science and IT job postings:

CompTIA A+ CompTIA Network+ CompTIA Security+ Cisco CCNA AWS Solutions Architect Azure AZ-900 Google Cybersecurity Red Hat RHCSA Kubernetes CKA CISSP

03 Contact

Want to talk about a project, hardware builds, or anything else? I'm around.