Lusajo D. Kusekwa
Front-End Developer & Linux Engineer
Dodoma, Tanzania
I'm a self-taught technologist based in Dodoma, Tanzania. My journey started as an intern at Sundy Merchant's Company, where I built the discipline that carried me into managing a full self-hosted infrastructure from scratch.
Today I run 10+ Docker services, game servers, media streaming, and DNS architecture — all on repurposed hardware I sourced and revived myself. I'm deepening my Linux system administration skills and available for freelance or full-time work.
Here are a few technologies I've been working with recently:
Experience
Intern
Sundy Merchant's Company — 4 Months
Where I learned what professional life actually looks like — showing up, communicating clearly, and understanding how a real business operates. Built the work ethic I carry into everything I do today.
Homelab Engineer
Independent · Repurposed Hardware · Ongoing
Designed, built, and maintain a complete self-hosted infrastructure stack from zero — media servers with the full *arr stack, game servers with Pelican Panel, Cloudflare tunnel architecture, and a growing ecosystem of Docker services — all on hardware that would otherwise be e-waste.
Projects
Homelab Infrastructure
The centerpiece of my homelab — a fully automated media pipeline built on the *arr stack. Sonarr handles TV with automatic episode searching and quality upgrades, Radarr does the same for movies, Lidarr covers music, and Prowlarr aggregates every indexer into a single search hub. Requests flow through the whole chain — search, download, organize, serve — with zero manual intervention.
Jellyfin streams everything to any device with hardware-accelerated transcoding. All 10+ services run in Docker containers managed through Dockge, using isolated bridge networks and persistent volumes, with remote access secured via Tailscale so I can manage from anywhere — all on repurposed hardware that would otherwise be e-waste.
kusekwa.space
The front door to my entire infrastructure. Every homelab service has its own subdomain, SSL enforced end-to-end through Cloudflare Tunnel, and custom email routing for lusajo@kusekwa.space — with not a single port forwarded to the public internet.
DNS records, tunnel configuration, caching rules, bot management, and security settings are all managed from one Cloudflare dashboard. It's a fully self-sovereign domain architecture I designed, built, and maintain entirely on my own.
Game Server
Built on Pelican Panel with the Wings daemon for game-agnostic deployments, with Crafty Controller handling Minecraft. The panel handles deployment, resource allocation, and remote access through a clean web interface — modpack installation, automated backup scheduling, player whitelisting and permissions, and live console access without ever needing to SSH in.
Right now it's hosting Minecraft, but the setup is game-agnostic: I can spin up new servers for other games whenever I want. Everything runs in Docker alongside the rest of the homelab, sharing resources efficiently, with updates, performance tuning, and monitoring handled by me.
SaveYourBets
A Dart app for saving and tracking betting slips. Log slips as they're placed, keep a clean record of betting history, and look back at how each one played out — a personal tool built in my spare time and open-sourced on GitHub.
Blog
A personal blog built with Astro and hosted at blog.kusekwa.space, where I write about what I'm learning and building — Linux, self-hosting, the homelab, and my journey through development.
Certificates
Cisco Linux Unhatched
Cisco Networking Academy — Credly