Szymon 'Samik' Tarasiński

Senior Software Engineer // DJ & Producer

Software engineer by day, DJ / electronic music producer by night. Building things for the web and crafting beats across genres. Always exploring the intersection of code and creativity.

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Blog

Tech deep-dives, homelab adventures, and things I've built.

blog.samik.dev

Controlling my homelab with Claude Code and custom MCP servers

I built four custom MCP servers – for AdGuard Home, Authentik, Komodo, and Proxmox VE – that let Claude Code manage my homelab infrastructure. With a CLAUDE.md runbook and custom slash commands, adding a new self-hosted service went from juggling five web UIs to a single terminal conversation.

Feb 25, 2026

Everything I self-host: my Proxmox homelab tour

What does a single mini PC homelab look like with 40+ self-hosted services? Hardware specs, Proxmox VM layout, ZFS storage, networking with AdGuard and Caddy, SSO with Authentik, 3-2-1 backups, and Grafana monitoring – all on one machine.

Feb 24, 2026

Hello, world

My name is Szymon (Samik). I’m a senior PHP/Symfony backend engineer at DocPlanner in Warsaw. This is the origin story – from HTML books in primary school and Open Tibia Servers to homelabs, CTFs, and electronic music production.

Feb 23, 2026