David Andras Backend Software Engineer
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Self-Hosted Portfolio Website

Jul 2026 – Aug 2026

I built this site by hand as a responsive static portfolio, with dedicated project pages, a downloadable resume, keyboard focus states, reduced-motion support, and social-sharing metadata. Keeping it static makes the site straightforward to maintain and minimizes the attack surface of the machine hosting it.

The site runs from an nginx container on my Ubuntu server. The container is bound only to 127.0.0.1, and a Cloudflare Tunnel publishes it without opening an inbound port on the home router. That gives the public site a deliberately narrow path to the origin while keeping the hosting setup understandable enough for me to operate myself.

I also wrote a deployment script that rebuilds and replaces the container in one command, configured nginx cache headers to prevent stale HTML after releases, and documented the architecture and operating constraints for future changes.

GitHub repo →