A developer gone deep on AI. At home I serve open-weight models from my own small cluster, runbooked like production: the limit of my reach, not of my ambition. I want this work at a scale my spare room can’t hold.
Good infrastructure is invisible. No red dashboards, no heroics at 3 a.m. Just systems that hold their shape while everything around them moves. I design for that silence.
Fourteen years from freelance PHP to production systems for Swiss enterprise. I’m a doer by nature and a workhorse by reputation. Happiest where the work is concrete and the system has to hold. Born in Ukraine, raised in Hungary, at home in Switzerland.
The architect draws the arch; I’m the one who knows when the mortar is just right and how the brick will settle. What I want now is simple: AI engineering, paid, at a scale bigger than my spare room, with a team and a budget. I bring what AI teams usually learn the hard way: IaC, secret handling, CI/CD, incident calm, plus daily hands-on time with the inference stack most people only read about.
012025 — NowLab · AI infrastructure
Open-weight models (GLM, Qwen, DeepSeek) served through vLLM, from consumer GPUs up to Grace Blackwell. Dual GX10s are the best I could buy; the runbooks are written for the clusters I haven’t been handed yet.
022026Lab · Agents
A DeepSeek Harness search-and-fetch plugin on self-hosted Firecrawl, built for my own bench. Nothing phones home: my day job lives in banking-grade closed systems, and my models live at home for the same reason.
032024 — NowCloud operations
I run the Azure infrastructure, plus React and Spring Boot applications, behind annual general meetings: seasonal peaks, no tolerance for downtime. Security at both levels: hardened code and dependencies above, reviewed configurations, access, and secrets below.
042021 — 2024Re-platforming
Part of the team that moved a monolithic on-premises system to Azure. My share: legacy code containerized to run on VMs, behind NSGs and a WAF, patched and up to date.
Four things I do well. Everything else I delegate, automate, or decline.
Operating principles
| Period | Role | Context | Ground covered |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 — now | AI Systems, Independent | Homelab: self-hosted LLM serving | vLLM · Evals · Agents |
| 2024 — now | DevOps / DevSecOps Engineer | Shareholder meeting systems, Azure | Security · Terraform · Spring Boot |
| 2023 — 2024 | Project Lead, Automation | Financial infrastructure, RHEL | Ansible · DRP · GitLab |
| 2021 — 2024 | Cloud DevOps Engineer | Legacy monolith → Azure VMs | Docker · NSG · WAF |
| 2020 — 2021 | Full-Stack Developer, DevOps | Serverless meeting applications | React · Functions · AD B2C |
| 2019 — 2020 | Project Lead, Developer | Sustainability investing app | React · Node · Jenkins |
| 2018 — 2019 | Developer | Online identification service | Cloud apps · Onshore–offshore |
| 2016 — 2018 | Frontend Developer | Telecom modernization | Sitebuilds · Design implementation |
| 2012 — 2016 | Full-Stack Developer | Freelance & agency work | PHP · SysAdmin |
Fourteen years of production, from freelance PHP to AI systems. Full CV with client history and references on request.
I do my best work beside people better than me at what I’m not.
01Architect
Twenty-five years of mission-critical systems, most of it inside Swisscom, the deepest architect I have ever met, and a former coworker. He draws the arch; I lay the bricks.
1Boring on purpose. In infrastructure, excitement is usually an incident with a timeline.
2Client systems can’t always be shown. I’m happy to walk through architecture and decisions on a call.
3This page ships no framework, no images, and no trackers. Designed and built with an AI assistant. The right tool for the task; my local models handle the half that stays private.
I’m looking for one well-scoped AI system to pour fourteen years of production discipline into: inference, agents, or the platform underneath. Tell me what you’re building; I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right pair of hands. And if it’s something I love, you’ll get the cherry on the cake too.