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Luke Mullan

A husband and father, B737 airline pilot in Perth, Western Australia. I spend my working life around disciplined procedures and high-consequence systems, and my spare time building infrastructure, automations, and a homelab that keeps expanding.

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Snapshot

What this site is for

This site is a small, durable record of the different threads of my work and interests: aviation, self-hosted infrastructure, technical writing, and the systems I end up understanding by pulling them apart.

Work

Aviation is my main professional context: B737 operations, recurrent simulator training, IFR flying, and the kind of systems thinking that matters when procedures have to be followed cleanly under pressure.

Interests

Outside work I keep coming back to infrastructure, networking, mail, automation, security, Apple ecosystem tooling, fitness tech, motorsport, and whatever else looks like a hard but interesting problem.

Homelab

The homelab side is where most of the detailed documentation lives: Proxmox, Talos Kubernetes, MikroTik and Omada networking, self-hosted mail, backups, PKI, and the reasoning behind how it all fits together.

Approach

Built to grow in layers

The site starts with a few static pages, but it is meant to grow into a practical notebook for the kinds of systems and workflows I want to keep well understood.

Useful summary

The top-level pages stay concise enough to explain who I am and what I work on without turning into a resume dump or a sprawling blog.

Detailed notes

Longer-form homelab notes can accumulate gradually, with enough structure to document not just what I built, but why I chose it and what broke along the way.