TechFlow · Larnaca, Cyprus

Custom builds. Expert repairs. Real diagnostics.

Name: TechFlow
Address: Larnaca, CY
Telephone: +357 97733605

A converted-garage lab where deep hardware knowledge meets a builder's creative streak. I build and restore PCs, hunt down faults others give up on, and direct AI tools to ship real desktop software.

View my work See my apps

10+: Years hands-on
100+: Devices serviced
22: Documented jobs
4: Apps in development

Look closely — the whole mark is an M.2 SSD. Gold fingers, mounting notch and all.

About

The person behind the bench

I've been hands-on with computers since I was eight, and I've spent the years since turning curiosity into craft. I formalized it through a technical IT education, a college degree in IT and networking, and a Cisco networking certification — but most of what I know came from building, breaking and fixing real machines.

TechFlow is my custom-build and repair lab, run out of a converted home garage. I'm the person friends trust with their machines: custom builds, upgrades and fresh installs, Windows and hardware troubleshooting, deep cleaning and repastes, and networking and Wi-Fi setup.

What I love most is the diagnostic side — where years of deep hardware knowledge turn an obscure fault into a puzzle to solve rather than a chore. And beyond the bench, I'm a builder and creative director: I design and ship desktop apps by directing AI tools rather than writing the code myself. It's the same instinct in a different medium — pairing hands-on expertise with smart use of modern tools to make things that actually work.

At a glance

Based in: Larnaca, Cyprus
Focus: Builds · Repairs · Diagnostics · Networking
By day: Trust & Safety / Senior Compliance Analyst, Aylo
Studied: ICT (Cyprus College) · Cisco IT Essentials
Approach: Hands-on expertise + modern AI tools

View full résumé

What I do

Services

From a blank-slate custom build to tracking down the fault no one else could find — here's how I can help.

Custom PC Builds

Spec'd to your budget and goals — gaming, workstation, or both. Tidy cable management and quality finishing as standard.

Upgrades & Fresh Installs

GPU/CPU/RAM/NVMe upgrades, clean Windows installs, drivers and the apps you actually use — set up and ready to go.

Diagnostics & Troubleshooting

No-POST, instability, thermal and Windows faults traced to the root cause. The part of the job I enjoy most.

Deep Clean & Repaste

Full strip-down, dust removal, fresh thermal paste on CPU and GPU — temperatures and noise brought back to spec.

Cable Management

Rebuilt looms, custom routing and a clean back side — airflow and aesthetics that make a build feel new again.

Networking & Wi-Fi

Mesh networks, NAS, FTP/Samba shares and DDNS — reliable coverage and access set up the right way.

Electronics & Peripheral Repair

Keyboards, mice, controllers and consoles — joystick drift, liquid damage, switch and scroll-wheel fixes, soldering included.

Remote Support

AnyDesk remote help for Windows issues, setup and quick fixes when an in-person visit isn't needed.

Portfolio

Builds, restorations & repairs

A selection of real jobs — personal projects, friends' machines and client work. Tap any card for the full story and photo gallery.

Pinned · Personal flagship

My Current Build — 7800X3D / 7900 XTX

My daily driver, and my pride and joy — a HYTE Y70 Touch with CableMod custom cables.

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Radeon RX 7900 XTX
ASUS ROG X670E Gaming Plus
be quiet! Straight Power 11 1050W Platinum
Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce X 360 AIO

Six Years Later — Deep Clean & Fan Swap

Jul 2026 · Friend

The strict-budget build I put together in 2020, back on the bench for a clean and a new exhaust fan.

Deep Clean + NVMe Upgrade for a Colleague

2026 · Colleague

Deep clean, repaste, cable redo and an HDD→NVMe Windows migration.

Marketplace Rescue — Clean, Format & Diagnose

2026 · Colleague

A rough marketplace buy deep-cleaned, re-pasted and diagnosed.

Diagnostic win

PS5 Controller — TMR Stick Replacement

Mar 2026 · Personal

Fixed left-stick drift with a TMR joystick module — solder work.

Diagnostic win

Company Laptop — Clean, Format & Upgrade Advice

Early 2026 · Client

Cleaned and reinstalled a company laptop; advised on RAM/NVMe upgrades.

Reception Workstation for a Company

Early 2026 · Company

A tidy reception PC, peripherals and dual-monitor setup to replace a laptop.

Liquid-Damaged Keyboard Brought Back

Nov 2025 · Personal

A dead SteelSeries Apex 7 TKL revived with contact cleaner instead of an RMA.

Diagnostic win

Old Build Restoration — Repair & Repaste

Oct 2025 · Client

Years of dust, a dead SSD, a stalled cooler fan and a stuck HDMI cable — all sorted.

Diagnostic win

Work + Gaming Build — 9950X3D / RTX 5080

Late 2025 · Client

A high-end rig for AutoCAD, architectural rendering and gaming.

Gaming PC Restoration & Repaste

May 2025 · Client

Restore, format, repair, deep clean & repaste — with a cable redo.

ROG Keris Ace 2 — Scroll Wheel Swap

2025 · Personal

Replaced a factory-faulty scroll wheel and modified the housing to fit.

Custom Build for a Colleague — 7800X3D / RTX 4080

Late 2023 · Colleague

A from-scratch build for gaming and heavy audio production.

Full Strip-Down Deep Clean & Repaste

Dec 2023 · Client

Every part removed, deep cleaned, CPU + GPU re-pasted, cabling reimagined.

Razer Viper Ultimate — Grip Refresh Mod

2023 · Personal

A cracked shell given new life with a double-sided grip wrap.

Razer Huntsman Elite — Switch Replacement

Jan 2023 · Personal

Desoldered a dead optical switch and swapped in a new one.

Diagnostic win

My 2019–2021 Battlestation — 5800X

2019 — 2021 · Personal

An all-Razer setup in a Lian Li O11 Razer Edition with a Red Devil 5700 XT.

Budget Gaming PC for a Friend (2020)

2020 · Friend

A strict-budget gaming + music-production build — Ryzen 5 3600X.

Where It Started — My First PC

2015 — 2018 · Personal

My first budget gaming PC and the upgrade path I worked through.

Gaming PC for a Friend (2016)

2016 · Friend

Built for a friend back in 2016 — still his daily machine.

The Lab

Works in progress & the puzzles I chase

The diagnostic side is the part I love most — where deep hardware knowledge turns an obscure fault into a puzzle worth solving.

DiagnosticsTestbenchWIP

The Testbench — and a No-POST Puzzle

2026 · Personal

My open testbench started life as a donor HP office PC. I stripped it back, fitted a Corsair RM1000e for headroom, TeamGroup T-Create 64GB and a be quiet! air cooler — custom-fitted around HP's awkward board layout — with a Kingston 512GB NVMe on a PCIe adapter card and a custom power button.

When the donor parts moved to the portable-PC project, I rebuilt it on an ASUS TUF B550 Gaming Plus WiFi II and a Ryzen 5 5600X — and it refused to POST.

◇ Diagnostic win

No-POST with the VGA debug light lit on a fresh B550 + 5600X. The cause wasn't the board or the freshly-formatted NVMe — it was a spare GTX 1080. Older 10-series cards need a DisplayPort firmware update or some boards won't POST. I booted on a spare 1660 Ti, flashed the 1080's DP chip, swapped back — and it POSTed every time.

WIPModWoodwork

Portable Gaming PC — Wood-Case AIO

WIP · 2026 · Personal

An ongoing project: a portable, two-person-carry all-in-one gaming PC with a built-in monitor — something you could take to a vacation house and just play.

Built mostly from a wood case around a donor HP office PC: i7-6700K, Corsair Vengeance 2×8GB 3200MHz, a 240GB Kingston SSD, a be quiet! 450W PSU, a Gigabyte OC GTX 1660 Ti and a 27″ 1080p 120Hz IPS LG panel. Still a work in progress.

Software

Apps I design & direct

Apps I build by directing AI tools rather than writing the code myself — a builder and creative director's take on software. Three are desktop previews you can click through; Bench runs in the browser, and you can open the real thing.

Live · self-hosted

Bench

Every peripheral you own, on one bench

One page that controls every peripheral on a desk — mice, keyboards, headsets, memory, graphics cards, fans and monitors — replacing the five or six vendor apps a desk usually runs to do it. No accounts, no updaters, no telemetry, and hardware that keeps working long after its manufacturer stops supporting it.

Runs in Chrome or Edge — nothing to install to try it
Lighting, DPI, key remapping, fan curves and brightness
Custom images and animations on headset and cooler displays
Optional Windows companion for what a browser can't reach
No vendor software — protocols reimplemented in-house

WebHIDWeb Serialnode-hidSMBus / I²CDDC/CI

bench.techflowcy.com Live

Bench running at https://bench.techflowcy.com

Open Bench live

v0.1 · In development

SpartaDock

A controller-first launcher for a portable gaming PC

A games and media launcher with native gamepad support (Xbox, DualSense, Switch), an in-game overlay, and screen capture. Built as the front-end for my portable gaming-PC project — a neon HUD you can drive entirely from a controller.

Native controller navigation (Xbox / DualSense / Switch)
Game library scanning & one-press launching
In-game overlay with quick settings
Screen / game capture (Windows Graphics Capture)
Six switchable neon themes + light mode

.NET 8WinFormsWebView2JavaScriptViGEmLibVLC

SpartaDock Demo

Home Spartan

21:47

Thursday · 18 June

01Library128 titles

02MediaStreaming & apps

03ToolsUtilities

PerformanceBalanced

ClipsCaptures

SettingsPreferences

PowerExit · restart

ASelectBBack☰Menu

Interactive preview · switch tabs to explore · display only

In active development

DiskFlow

Every disk tool I kept opening separately — in one place

A disk-management suite: inspect every drive, read SMART health, partition, format, clone an OS disk, repair boot, and build recovery media. Includes a single-exe WinPE edition for off-system recovery. I was tired of juggling ten utilities, so I designed one.

Full disk inventory: model, serial, bus, GPT/MBR, sectors
Live SMART health dashboards & I/O graphs
Partition, format, convert & clone with a staged queue
Boot repair + OS clone (bcdboot)
WinPE recovery edition — single .exe, zero dependencies

.NET 8WinFormsWebView2Chart.jsWMIdiskpart

DiskFlow Demo

Dashboard Synth

Disks

9.0 TB

Capacity

4 OK

Health

38°C

Avg temp

Live I/O · NVMe 0

Read 2,410 MB/sWrite 1,980 MB/s

Interactive preview · switch tabs to explore · display only

Early development

SmartHub

One control plane for every smart device in the house

A smart-home controller that unifies 20+ device ecosystems (Tapo, Govee, SwitchBot, Midea, Hue and more) behind one clean dashboard. Works locally over LAN/Bluetooth and remotely via Tailscale, with scenes, automations and ambient screen-sync lighting.

Unified control across 20+ vendor ecosystems
Power, brightness, color & temperature per device
Scenes, schedules & automations
IR/RF learning for legacy remotes
Screen-sync ambient lighting + remote access

.NET 10Avalonia UIMVVMBluetooth LETailscale

SmartHub Demo

Dashboard Noir

Home

7 devices onlineLinked

Active sceneMovie Night

Energy now

218 W

22.5°

Climate

5 on

Lights

VPN

Remote

Adaptive lighting

Screen-sync ambient

Interactive preview · switch tabs to explore · display only

Career

Résumé

IT support and operations professional with experience in compliance analysis, customer support, and hands-on technical work — plus around 10 years of side experience in PC building, repairs, maintenance, troubleshooting, formatting, and small network setups.

Download full CV (PDF) Email me

Experience

Trust & Safety, Senior Compliance Analyst Aug 2026 — Present
Aylo
- Act as a point of reference for analysts on escalated and ambiguous cases, answering process questions and supporting newer team members.
- Work directly with team leads on policy and workflow clarifications, surfacing recurring issues from day-to-day casework.
- Work across Zendesk, Jira and internal CMS tools, applying KYC and identity-verification processes while maintaining confidentiality, accuracy and quality standards.
Trust & Safety, Compliance Analyst Apr 2023 — Aug 2026
Aylo
- Handled trust-and-safety and compliance work in a high-volume digital environment.
- Managed 1,000+ tickets across Zendesk and internal CMS tools — reviewing cases, updating records and supporting daily workflows.
Barista / Community Manager 2022 — 2023
INSPOT
- Fast-paced customer-facing role, also assisting with electronic devices when needed.
- Served 100+ customers daily with strong communication and teamwork.
Technical Support 2017 — 2018
Bionic
- Diagnosed and resolved hardware and software faults and supported repairs during a technical-support internship.
- Performed PC troubleshooting and assembly for custom builds; maintained UPS units and networked printers.

Get in touch

Let's talk

Need a build, a repair, or a fault tracked down — or want to chat about a role? Drop me a message.