About

I'm Hans Lao, a Platform & Cloud Engineer based in Bracknell, UK, and relocating to Switzerland in summer 2026. I've spent 5+ years building and operating reliable infrastructure — from 100+ server enterprise estates to a fully infrastructure-as-code private cloud in my homelab.

My focus today is where infrastructure and AI meet: local model serving, retrieval-augmented generation, and the governance of AI agents in production. I believe the question "can an AI be trusted with infrastructure work?" deserves an honest, rigorous answer — which is what my Rubicon benchmark research is about.

I'm a HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate, Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), and Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA), with CKA on the way. I work in Azure, AWS, and GCP, and I've led infrastructure work to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance.

Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

Azure (multi-region), AWS, GCP, Nutanix bare-metal, HPC infrastructure, high-availability architecture, disaster recovery.

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform (enterprise scale / custom modules), OpenTofu, Ansible, Bicep, ARM templates, drift detection.

Containers & DevOps

Kubernetes (AKS), Docker, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, ArgoCD-style GitOps, zero-downtime release pipelines.

AI & MLOps

Local LLM inference & serving, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (QLoRA), RAG deep research, AI agent governance & least-privilege access, LLM evaluation methodology (PJA), model routing research.

Languages

English (C2) · French (C2) · Nationality: French / EU citizen

Certifications

— HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (004)
— Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
— Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)
— Target 2026: CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)