About the lab

About me.

Systems administrator, tool builder, and homelab tinkerer.

Who am I?

I'm Swatto — a systems administrator with a habit of building tools when the right one doesn't already exist.

SwatLab is my personal space for sharing the tools I write and anything else I find worth paying attention to. Everything here is built for real-world use — nothing is theoretical fluff.

Most of what I build starts because something was missing or painful to use. I write the tool, it scratches the itch, and I put it here.

Quick facts

  • Systems administration background
  • Builds tools to scratch an itch
  • Homelab enthusiast
  • Open-source where possible

What I build with

Tools are written to scratch an itch — something I needed that didn't exist, or something that existed but was painful to use.

Rust

Performance-critical tools and anything that needs to be reliable in hostile environments.

PowerShell

Windows administration, automation scripts, and anything touching Active Directory or enterprise environments.

C#

Tooling with richer UIs and anything that integrates tightly with the .NET / Windows ecosystem.

Find me

All public tools live on GitHub. I don't maintain social media — if you want to get in touch, GitHub is the place.