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Active Projects
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Project TANK — A localized AI system using Ollama and private LLMs to process travel data without any cloud dependency. The goal: full intelligence, zero exposure.
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Secure AI Vaults — Deploying on-premise NVIDIA DGX infrastructure for regulated industries. Air-gapped, Zero Trust, sovereign compute.
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This site — Still building. Articles, recipes, gallery, philosophy, tests. It's a system and systems are never really done.
Current Obsessions
Stoicism. Not as an aesthetic or a Twitter bio. As a daily operating system. The Dichotomy of Control keeps showing up everywhere — in network design, in travel, in how I handle situations I can't route around.
Food. Not just cooking — the whole thing. The sourcing, the technique, the culture behind a dish. Every recipe I make is an attempt to understand a place without going there first. Sometimes it works.
Football. Galatasaray. Always. Non-negotiable. This is not a phase and I don't need to justify it.
The gap between people who use AI as a tool and people who understand it as infrastructure. Most people are still clicking buttons. A small number are building the pipes. That gap is going to widen fast.
What's in the Queue
- 📺YouTube rabbit holes — Stoicism breakdowns, off-grid builds, hostal & hospitality projects, cooking techniques, football tactics. The algorithm has figured me out at this point.
- 🏡Eco-hostal research — Actively scouting locations. Land costs, permits, sustainable build models, climate. The idea is serious even if the timeline isn't fixed yet.
- 🥗Dieting & intermittent fasting — Experimenting with protocols. Treating it like a system to debug, not a punishment to endure.
- 🐕Getting a Cane Corso — Researching breeders, training philosophies, and whether my lifestyle is actually ready for a dog that size. Probably yes.
Skills in Progress
- 🌐SD-WAN & enterprise networking — Still deepening. Cisco certifications are active. The infrastructure world moves slower than AI but the stakes are higher.
- ⚡Agentic AI architectures — ReAct loops, memory systems, tool use. The gap between a chatbot and an agent is enormous and most people don't understand where it is.
- 🐍Python automation — Getting serious about async patterns and building things that survive contact with the real world.
- 📸Studio & portrait lighting — One light, intentional placement, understanding what the shadow is doing. Still learning to see before pressing the shutter.
- 🖨️3D printing — FDM, multi-material, functional prints. The Anycubic Kobra 2 Max is a workhorse. Still finding its limits.
Intentional Absences
Not on social media. Not scrolling. Not in meetings that could have been an email. Not running — never running. Swimming instead.
Not disclosing my location. Not in a mysterious way — just not relevant. Somewhere with good internet and interesting people is enough of an answer.
Not settling. The next pin on the map needs to be right, not fast.