Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Self-hosted LLM infrastructure: Ollama, Open WebUI, LibreChat. GPU-accelerated inference on Proxmox clusters. RAG pipelines, embedding models, and local AI search engines. Model deployment, quantization, and performance optimization.
Live Streaming Production
Multi-camera OBS Studio production pipelines with automated scene switching, obs-websocket control, and Stream Deck surfaces. Virtual-camera output, GPU encoding, real-time shaders and compositing, and broadcast audio chains.
Game Servers & Community Infrastructure
Dedicated game server hosting on Proxmox VE with isolated containers. Community platforms built on self-hosted DNS and IPAM, SSO-gated reverse proxies, monitoring, and scheduled backups.
Information Security
Secure infrastructure design and hardening. OAuth2/SSO authentication with oauth2-proxy and Google Identity. Network segmentation, reverse proxy gateways, TLS everywhere. Zero-trust architecture for self-hosted services.
Volunteer EMT
Certified Emergency Medical Technician serving the community as a volunteer first responder. Experienced in emergency medical care, crisis response, and pre-hospital life support. Committed to public service and community health.
Background
AI Infrastructure & Self-Hosted Systems
Design and operate a comprehensive self-hosted AI infrastructure stack on Proxmox VE. Deploy and manage GPU-accelerated LLM inference servers, AI chat interfaces (Open WebUI, LibreChat), and local AI-powered search engines (SearXNG, Perplexica). Experience with NVIDIA GPU passthrough in LXC containers, Ollama model serving, RAG pipelines, and embedding-based retrieval systems.
Live Streaming & Broadcast Engineering
Design and operate multi-camera OBS Studio production setups: scene and source architecture, camera switching, and hotkey / Stream Deck control surfaces. Automate with obs-websocket and advanced-scene-switcher — scene transitions, overlay media, curtain and effect macros. Run virtual-camera pipelines for multi-destination broadcast, GPU-accelerated encoding, real-time shader effects and chroma-key compositing, and broadcast audio chains (noise removal, EQ, compression). Self-host re-streaming to multiple platforms.
Game Servers & Community Platforms
Host and operate dedicated game servers on Proxmox VE with container-level isolation, resource controls, and scheduled backups. Build the surrounding community infrastructure: authoritative DNS and IPAM, VLAN-segmented networks with a hardened firewall, SSO-protected reverse proxies, and monitoring and alerting — plus self-hosted collaboration and media services.
Information Security & Infrastructure
Build and maintain secure multi-node Proxmox clusters with Ceph distributed storage, VLAN segmentation, and defense-in-depth network architecture. Implement zero-trust access patterns with oauth2-proxy, Google OAuth SSO, certificate management via certbot/Let's Encrypt, and infrastructure-as-code using NetBox for DNS and IPAM.
Volunteer Emergency Medical Services
Active volunteer EMT providing emergency medical response and pre-hospital care in the community. Trained in patient assessment, trauma care, cardiac emergencies, and crisis intervention. Dedicated to serving others through skilled medical care under pressure.
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