Hi, I'm Chase (Ced) Dumphord

Digital Systems Engineer | Infrastructure | Automation | RF Edge Systems

Live Portfolio: https://chasedumphord.com Live NOC Dashboard: https://noc.chasedumphord.com

🧠 About

Digital Systems Engineer with 10+ years of experience across industrial automation, manufacturing systems, and data-driven infrastructure. Currently at GE Aerospace Digital Team specializing in machine data integration, dashboard development, and system-level visibility. Hands-on homelab engineer bridging physical equipment with modern digital platforms. Increasingly integrating AI tooling for system documentation, automated diagnostics, and workflow acceleration.

🌐 Live Sites

Site	URL	Description
Portfolio	https://chasedumphord.com	Personal portfolio — projects, stack, resume
NOC Dashboard	https://noc.chasedumphord.com	Live infrastructure visibility — 28 systems

📊 Ced's NOC — Live Infrastructure Observability

Real-time network operations center dashboard monitoring 28 homelab systems across 6 infrastructure layers.

How It Works

Proxmox Biggie (Cron every 5min)
  → noc_update.py pings 28 systems
  → writes data/noc-status.json
  → git push to ced-portfolio
  → GitHub Pages deploys (~30s)
  → Browser fetches every 30s
  → Live dashboard updates

Systems Monitored

6-node Proxmox Cluster — BigWorld, Biggie, Snoop, TooShort, Tupac, DrDre
12-node K3s Cluster — 3 control plane (django-1/2/3) + 9 workers (ingress, data, monitoring groups)
TrueNAS — Network attached storage
Nginx Proxy Manager — Reverse proxy layer
Prometheus + Grafana + Uptime Kuma — Full observability stack (Prometheus actively scraping)
Dashy + Home Assistant + PrimeStation — Services layer
APRS iGate x2 — RF edge systems (home + mobile)

Automation

Script: ~/scripts/noc_update.py running on Biggie (10.10.30.192)
Cron: */5 * * * * — every 5 minutes
Log: /var/log/noc_update.log
Auth: GitHub Personal Access Token via baked remote URL

🏗️ Infrastructure Overview

Layer	Systems	Count
Compute	Proxmox VE cluster	6 nodes
Orchestration	K3s Kubernetes	12 nodes
Storage	TrueNAS	1
Networking	Nginx Proxy Manager, Cloudflare Tunnels, UniFi VLANs	4 VLANs
Monitoring	Prometheus, Grafana, Uptime Kuma, Custom NOC	4 services
Edge	APRS iGate (home + mobile), Direwolf TNC	2 nodes

🔥 Featured Projects

📊 Ced's NOC Dashboard

Real-time monitoring system with live system health, latency tracking, severity-based alerts, and layer filtering.

Live: https://noc.chasedumphord.com
Source: https://github.com/ced4568/ceds-noc

🧱 Ced's HomeLab

Full enterprise-style homelab with Proxmox clustering, K3s orchestration, VLAN segmentation, and full observability stack including Prometheus scraping.