Nikhil Seth
Senior IT Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer · Calgary, AB
17+ years designing, migrating, and optimizing enterprise infrastructure across VMware, Hyper-V, and Microsoft Azure. I build production environments that stay up — and a homelab that keeps me sharp.
What I do
🖥️ Virtualization & Infrastructure
Designing and managing enterprise virtual environments across Hyper-V Failover Clustering, VMware vSphere/ESXi, vCenter, and Vxrail — from architecture planning to production-grade deployments.
Hyper-V VMware vCenter Vxrail
☁️ Cloud & Hybrid Connectivity
Deploying and managing Azure IaaS workloads — hub-and-spoke networking, VNet peering, Azure Firewall, Bastion, and hybrid connectivity between on-premises and Azure environments.
Azure IaaS Hub-and-Spoke VPN Gateway Bastion
🗄️ Storage & High Availability
Architecting and managing shared SAN storage over dual-fabric iSCSI with MPIO, Cluster Shared Volumes, and Dell PowerVault for resilient, highly available infrastructure.
Dell PowerVault iSCSI MPIO CSV
🔁 Backup & Disaster Recovery
Designing and operating DR strategies using Azure Site Recovery, Hyper-V Replica, and Veeam — covering failover planning, RTO/RPO targets, and business continuity across hybrid environments.
ASR Hyper-V Replica Veeam DR Planning
📊 Monitoring & Operations
Operating enterprise environments under ITIL-aligned change and incident management — infrastructure monitoring with SolarWinds, event response, and production environment stability.
SolarWinds ITIL Incident Mgmt Change Mgmt
🧱 Self-Hosted & Orchestration
Running a multi-node Proxmox homelab with k3s Kubernetes, Docker, n8n automation, NetBird VPN, Frigate NVR, and Home Assistant — built, integrated, and owned end to end.
Proxmox k3s Docker n8n Home Assistant
Homelab
I self-host my entire personal stack on low-power mini PCs — 4 Proxmox nodes, a 6-node k3s cluster, OPNsense firewall, Frigate NVR, and more. Every service I run at home teaches me something I apply professionally.
Certifications
AZ-104 (2023) AZ-303 (2021) VMware VCP 410 MCP
This site runs on my homelab
niklabs.org is self-hosted on a Proxmox LXC, served by Nginx, proxied through Cloudflare — built and maintained end to end.