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Apprentice Infrastructure & Operations Specialist at Infomaniak Network SA by day, photographer whenever the light is good, open source person the rest of the time.

Geneva, Switzerland // 46.20° N ; 6.14° E

Portrait of Gabriel
Yes... that's me from a few months back. And yes, the forest is a green screen. When I go out to shoot I usually go alone, so there's no one to take a picture of me. I'd be too shy to ask anyway :(

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Hi ! I'm Gabriel, an apprentice IT Infrastructure & Operations Specialist at Infomaniak Network SA, the friendly ethical cloud provider based in Geneva, Switzerland. A good part of my week goes into learning networking, development, judging big tech, and helping others use and enjoy technology, and I genuinely have fun doing so.

The rest goes into photography... mostly wildlife and the night sky. I'm also strongly advocating for free and open source software, and have a full homelab running Proxmox VE, Snowflakes, Immich, Docker and more self-hosted services than strictly necessary

I'm also a student at the CFPT, currently exploring machine learning, and the founder of the Olynthe Initiative, a small effort to support digital rights and FOSS.

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I care about software that respects its users.
Here are a few things I built or contributed to.

  • JWStreak

    dart / gpl-3.0 / jws.olynthe.org

    A friendly Flutter app that helps people build a daily Bible-reading habit. Everything on-device, nothing leaves your phone.

  • BasaltOS

    AlmaLinux-based operating system

    Project leader on an independent open source operating system. Early days, big dreams.

  • The Olynthe Initiative

    digital rights & free software

    Founded to support digital rights and FOSS initiatives, and home of this very domain

  • Sky Map

    android / astronomy

    The original Google Sky Map, now run by its community: point your phone at the sky and it names the stars, planets and constellations. I chip in here and there.

  • Google AI Edge Gallery

    android / on-device AI

    Google's open-source playground for on-device AI: chat, image understanding and more, with models that run fully offline.

  • Tor Snowflakes

    tor / anti-censorship

    I run multiple Snowflake proxies: volunteer-powered Tor bridges that help people in censored countries reach the open web. Cheap to run, hard to block :)

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The Gear: Nikon D7000 | GoPro hero 12 | Pixel 9 Pro XL

Here are a few frames I like ! I deeply hope you'll like them too :)

A ginger cat prowling through dewy grass
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A blue speedwell flower in close-up
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Black and white, hands gently holding a tiny leaf
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The Milky Way over a dark night sky
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A house sparrow in sharp profile
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Two sparrows perched on a branch
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All of these were shot by me with one of the gear mentionned above. More of my photos can be found on Instagram :)

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What I reach for every day at work, in the homelab, and everywhere in between.

  • Home Lab HardwareGMKtec K8 Plus AMD Ryzenâ„¢ 7 8845HS, RPi 5 (8 Go), RPi 3 (2 Go)
  • DIYArduino Uno R3 x2, Arduino Nano x2
  • ComputersToo many.
    Primary: MacBookPro 2026 (M5 Pro) / Secondary: XPS 15 7590 & Omen Tower (forgot the name)
  • OSGrapheneOS // Cachy Linux // macOS // Debian Trixie
  • MobilePixel 9 Pro XL, iPad Pro (M2), Quest 3, Pixel Watch 5

favorite groups (order matters!)

  • PhonesGoogle Pixel, Fairphone, Nothing
  • ComputersFramework, Apple, Dell
  • CamerasNikon, Lumix, Fujifilm
  • DIY boardsRaspberry Pi, Arduino, Flipper Zero
  • IDEZed (Preview)
A messy server rack covered in tangled cables
Be assured, that's just an image i found on the internet; not my actual homelab. But it's pretty close to its state.... Let's move on ! photo: Kim Scarborough, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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I'm shy, but I don't bite. Please come say hi!
And kindly mention you came from this site, or I might assume you're a scammer (I started getting used to it sadly) :(

Did you know? This website & the olynthe domain are hosted by Infomaniak: ecologically hosted in Switzerland // B Corpâ„¢ // carbon compensated 200%

Fun fact: this UI takes its cues from Material Design. If you like this portfolio, fork github.com/Hiburger/portfolio and make it yours: same design, your info :)

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Hey! :)
May I ask you a question ?

What's your favourite colour?
Pick one and the whole site wears it: links, dates, buttons, everything. So everyone likes the colour !

no cookies, just colours !!