The Workshop

The Workshop

Notes by Rodrigo Sampaio Vaz

My place for writing about software, engineering, racing, cars, and whatever I'm working on at the moment.

On the bench

  • Self-hosting
  • Kubernetes
  • Personal tooling
  • Racing
  • Cars
A long wooden workbench under a window in warm evening light: a small server chassis, soldering station, multimeter and laptop, then a racing steering wheel, driving gloves and a brake caliper, with a tool pegboard above. The wall, window and pegboard dissolve upward into character art.
Fig. 1: an illustrative workshop, not a photo of mine. AI-generated image (gpt-image-2) with an AI-generated character-art fade, cropped for this page.

About

I'm Rodrigo Sampaio Vaz — an infrastructure-minded builder focused on reliability, clarity, and useful automation. I enjoy turning complex systems into simple, repeatable workflows and sharing the lessons in plain language.

This site is my place to publish technical notes, project updates, and practical guides on self-hosting, Kubernetes, personal tooling, racing, and cars. If a post is here, it's because I tested it in the real world.

Posts

  1. My Homeserver Is Ridiculously Overkill - and I Love It

    A note on why running an overkill homeserver is both practical and genuinely fun.

    6 min read

Projects

Homelab Services
Kubernetes-based services with persistent storage, backups, and clean deployment conventions.
Automation Tooling
Messaging, reminders, and operational checks designed to be proactive without being noisy.
Personal Dashboard
Simple status views for system health, uptime, and key infrastructure metrics.

Contact

hello@rsampaio.info