Ray Shao, systems engineer: a Windows XP desktop
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Ray ShaoClick to beginFour of 23 builds. Homelab, GPUs, chips and robots.
MSN-001operational2025Proxmox AI Datacenter
Home lab running on Proxmox: LXC containers and VMs for LLM inference, monitoring, and general compute.
MSN-002operational2025Chrome AI Privacy Extension
Chrome extension using the Prompt API and Gemini Nano for on-device text classification. Runs entirely in the browser...
MSN-003operational2025uP16 ยท 5-Stage RISC CPU
5-stage pipelined 16-bit RISC CPU written in Verilog and synthesized on an Artix-7 FPGA. Register file and program...
MSN-004operational2026Portfolio Website
This site: a 3D room with a Windows XP desktop on the monitor, built with Astro and three.js, deployed to GitHub Pages.
Recent build logs, with the numbers and the dead ends.
Homelab telemetry: Proxmox, InfluxDB, Telegraf and two GPU vendors on one dashboard
How I built the monitoring stack for the Proxmox rack, and the three weeks it spent...
Tricking Apple Silicon into native CUDA via homelab Proxmox
How I built a transparent compiler proxy and runner stub architecture to compile and...
SSH and RDP into the homelab: a phone as my only dev machine
I stopped syncing state across a laptop and a desktop and just moved the whole dev...
Ray Shao
Systems engineer. NTU computer engineering. I build homelabs, GPU servers and chips.
Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering student building and operating reliable production systems at the intersection of cloud computing, AI/ML workloads, and developer tooling. Incoming Site Reliability Engineer Intern on Tencent's AI Compute...
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