I'mLouis.Apprentice.

19, IT systems integration apprentice in Hamburg. I build tools that actually run, and host them myself.

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Hi, I'm Louis.

I'm Louis Lastella, 19, I live in Hamburg and I'm training as an IT specialist for systems integration (Fachinformatiker) at Berufsbildungswerk Hamburg. I've been into tech for a long time: networks, hardware, software and how it all fits together.

At home I run a small homelab that hosts my bots and tools. Since 2025 I've also been learning web design and frontend development, and I built this site myself.

Own projects
11
Open on GitHub
3
Graduating
2028

Currently on As of October 2026

  • Getting Synology Chat MCP and Berichtsheft MCP into the awesome-mcp-servers list, the pull request is open.
  • This site: projects sorted by weight, CV cut down to one page.

What I know & am learning

Systems integration

My apprenticeship trade. At home I run a homelab that hosts everything I build: bots, dashboards and my AI assistant.

  • Linux
  • Docker / Coolify
  • DNS / Cloudflare
  • Tailscale
  • Monitoring

Automation

I build tools that take work off my plate at home and in my apprenticeship, mostly in Python.

  • Python
  • MCP
  • Playwright
  • Node.js
  • GitHub Actions

Web

Sites that don't just work but look good too. This one is built with Astro and TypeScript.

  • HTML / CSS
  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • Astro
  • PHP

My path

  1. 2023

    Getting into IT

    Self-taught

    It started at 16: hardware, networks, software and how it all fits together.

  2. 2024

    Secondary school certificate

    School
  3. Aug 2025 – 2028

    IT specialist for systems integration

    Berufsbildungswerk Hamburg

    Apprenticeship in systems integration, networking and IT infrastructure (German dual apprenticeship, Fachinformatiker).

Projects

Homelab

This is where everything I build runs: Linux servers with Coolify and Docker. A git push to GitHub is enough for Coolify to build and start the new version. Beszel shows how the servers are doing, alerts reach my phone via ntfy, and Tailscale gets me in from anywhere.

Learned How to run services so they keep running on their own: containers, automatic deploys, monitoring and a ping when something does get stuck.

Snag At first the bots lived as copies on the server and had to be updated by hand. Moving to Coolify ended that, now a push deploys them.

Deploy
Git-PushGitHubCoolify
Services
Discord-BotsJellyfinUsagecastHermes Agent
Platform
DockerLinux
Network
Cloudflare DNSTailscale
Monitoring
Beszelntfy
  • Docker
  • Coolify
  • Linux
  • Self-Hosting

Synology Chat MCP

An MCP server that lets AI assistants like Claude use Synology Chat: read channels and posts, find people, send messages and files. Originally built for my vocational school's chat, now open source, listed in the official MCP Registry and usable with any Synology Chat instance.

Learned How Synology's web API handles login and sessions, and how to publish a tool so others can start it with one command: via uvx, as a Docker image and through the MCP Registry.

Try ituvx --from git+https://github.com/Louis-Lastella/synology-chat-mcp synology-chat-mcp
  • MCP
  • Python
  • Docker
  • Open Source
Updated Oct 2026

Berichtsheft MCP

Fills in my digital apprenticeship logbook (BLok) almost by itself: the server collects what I worked on during the week from my AI sessions and enters it day by day once I approve. Existing entries are never overwritten.

Learned Browser automation with Playwright for a site without an API, and that a tool writing to real data has to be careful: approval first, never overwrite.

Snag The first real entry crashed: Playwright ran synchronously inside the async MCP server. Now it runs in its own thread, and the login waits for the redirect.

  • MCP
  • Python
  • Playwright
  • Open Source
Updated Oct 2026

Fumata

An iOS app for tracking and understanding your habits, a joint project with Mia. I build the app for iPhone and Apple Watch: quick logging with undo, stats with Swift Charts, reminders with a mood pick right in the notification, a Live Activity on the lock screen and resting heart rate from Apple Health.

Learned SwiftUI, Swift Charts and HealthKit, and how to keep iPhone, Apple Watch and lock screen together in one app without it stuttering on older devices.

  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • iOS
  • watchOS

Usagecast

A self-hosted dashboard that shows what eats my AI quota: cost per tool, skill and prompt part, a forecast for the limits and alerts on my phone. Runs on the Python standard library alone and without any AI.

Learned How far the standard library alone gets you, and how to turn raw data into a forecast you understand at a glance.

  • Python
  • Self-Hosting
  • Open Source
Updated Oct 2026

More things I built

Get in touch.

Currently open to an internship during my apprenticeship and small jobs like websites or bots. Otherwise happy to hear from you, whether it's a question, a chat or just hello.

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