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John Ashley Palaganas

Full-Stack Developer & IT Systems Specialist

I build web-applications and maintain systems and infrastructure behind homelab environments — from React & Flask applications to the servers, networks, and microsoft environments they run on. Based in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Location Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Focus Full-Stack Dev · IT Infrastructure Building since 2019
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01 — Expertise

What I work on

Three areas cover most of my day-to-day: shipping applications, automating how they're deployed, and keeping the systems underneath them healthy.

Full-Stack Web Development

Developed web applications using React and Flask, following structured practices from requirement gathering through testing and deployment. Comfortable maintaining both frontend and backend in a Linux server environment.

ReactJavaScriptPythonFlaskPHPSQLPostgreSQLREST

DevOps & Automation

Built and managed Docker containers on Ubuntu servers to host internal tools, configuring networking, persistent storage, and restart policies for reliability. Maintain self-hosted application environments end to end.

DockerCI/CDGitHub ActionsAWSAzureIaCGrafanaJenkins

IS/System Administration

Administer Windows Server and Linux in virtualized environments (Proxmox, VMWare). Develop and maintain Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to enforce security policies, system configurations, and organizational standards.

Active DirectoryAzure ADProxmoxHyper-VPowerShellMS Exchange
02 — Experience

Professional background

A mix of enterprise IT System support and independent development work, plus the homelab where I test everything first.

2025 — Present

System Support Tech L2

Regina Airport · Regina, Saskatchewan

Azure AD / Entra IDPatchingPreventive MaintenanceWorkstation & Device DeploymentNetwork Cable ManagementAirline Application SupportServer InstallationMicrosoft 365 Support
2023 — 2025

IT Administrator

Regina, Saskatchewan

Active DirectoryGroup Policy (GPO)TCP/IP TroubleshootingRBACDHCP / IP ManagementServer AdministrationMicrosoft EntraVirtualizationIncident ManagementMDM
2024 — Present

Freelance Web Developer

Regina, Saskatchewan

Frontend & Backend DevelopmentWordpressReactAPI IntegrationAuth (JWT / Sessions)CI/CD BasicsDomain & DNS ManagementCloudflareSEOMySQLNGINX
03 — Projects

Selected work

A mix of client work and personal builds — used to learn new tools or solve a real, specific problem.

Client Web Application

Visit

A static web application built for a client, including contact information, forms, and service details, with a PHP backend for communication.

About Me Portfolio

Visit

A separate static webapp showcasing homelab infrastructure — including the hardware used for hosting and building servers.

Pokémon Search API

Visit

Built to practice fetching and rendering data from a public API using vanilla JavaScript and the DOM.

War Card Game

GitHub

A card game built in Swift as a practice project, focused on fast, reliable, and visually clean UI.

Meme Kit

GitHub

A DOM manipulation project built for fun, sharpening skills around working with the Document Object Model.

QR GitHub Scanner

GitHub

First developed QR project, generating a scannable link to a GitHub profile using an NPM module and Git Bash scripting.

04 — Contact

Let's work together

Have a project, an opening, or an infrastructure problem worth solving? I'd like to hear about it.

LocationRegina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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