ABOUT
I'm Hal Borland. I'm a chief infrastructure engineer at a Fortune 500 logistics company, where I work on time infrastructure, identity management, configuration automation, and container orchestration at scale. I build and maintain the systems that keep operations moving across North America.
I run BorlandTech LLC — a local technology company serving small businesses across the Ozarks. We build modern websites, provide managed IT support, handle hosting and domains, and optimize local SEO so businesses get found by customers in their area. We serve NW Arkansas, Branson, Harrison, and Springfield.
My home lab runs Proxmox VE with declarative VM infrastructure — reproducible environments, container orchestration experiments, and a growing list of self-hosted services. I believe infrastructure should be code, reproducible, and boring in the best way.
Infrastructure
Ansible, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Proxmox, KVM, Equinix Metal, Azure
Web
Astro, React, TypeScript, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, Netlify, Formspree, Calendly integration
Networking
BGP, OSPF, DNS design, NTP architecture, IPsec VPN, WireGuard, HAProxy, nginx
Observability
Grafana, InfluxDB, Netdata, Discord alerts, Prometheus, Loki, custom monitoring dashboards
Automation
Python, Bash, cron, systemd, Hermes AI agents
Security
Red Hat IDM, FreeIPA, SSL/TLS, certificate management, security audits, endpoint protection
halbor.land is built with Astro, styled like a retro operating system interface, and deployed to Netlify. The design references classic 90s/early-2000s OS aesthetics — chunky borders, pixel fonts, terminal prompts, and CRT scanline effects — because I believe personal websites should have personality. The internet was more fun when websites felt like places, not templates.
This site is also a showcase: every component is hand-written, every animation is CSS, and the entire build is under 50KB. No tracking scripts. No cookie banners. Just a fast, weird, personal website.