Priyatham (Pri) Bazaru is a Technical Lead and Full Stack Software Consultant with over 6 years of experience architecting secure, scalable systems across finance, education, and SaaS. A passionate Linux user and self-hoster, he builds infrastructure leveraging open-source tools, containerization, and cloud-native stacks. His work spans serverless architectures, microservices in Go and Python, and platform observability using tools like Datadog and Sentry. Pri has led cross-functional teams through complex deployments, CI/CD automation, and AI-integrated workflows. With experience in university innovation and a privacy researcher, he actively contributes to open discussions about self-managed infrastructure, secure software development, and developer tooling in regulated environments. He enjoys speaking about building resilient systems from scratch using Linux, containers, and OSS foundations.

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Oops, I Self-Hosted Everything: One PC, No Static IP, No Problem

It all started with a website and a refusal to spend a dollar as a grad student. This talk traces the evolution from a student portfolio to a full self-hosted ecosystem with Media to personal AI tools and periodic social media backups all running with stubbornness on second-hand hardware without a static IP. Explore the journey: one-day wins with dynamic DNS, multi-year setups with backups, monitoring, and home automation. My network and security failures and how you should avoid them on your server. Whether you’re curious or deep in self-hosting, discover what outages teach, how communities support, and open source empowers. No budget for all this? No problem.

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