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role: Solutions Architect — AI & Infrastructure
focus: Security · HPC · Network · AI
scope: Designing and deploying production infrastructure at enterprise scale
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🖧 Network Solutions (IP/IB/FC) 🧠 AI Clusters (Inference/Training) 🐍 Network + Application Security 📊 Monitoring + Performance Solutions 🧪 Enterprise + HPC Storage ☁️ Virtualization / Proxmox / Openstack
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01. About

I'm a Solutions Architect with 14+ years in the IT channel, bridging the gap between traditional network infrastructure and cutting-edge AI systems.

I design, build, and deploy production infrastructure for enterprise customers, from load balancers and firewalls, to hypervisors and GPU clusters. My work spans presales architecture, technical proof-of-concepts, and hands-on deployment across networking, security, storage, and AI/ML infrastructure.

From networks, servers, security & the applications on them, I feel an understanding (and interest!) of each, is now a requirement for anyone working in IT fields, especially when it comes to being able to design, build and provide solutions that are the best fit for a customer’s requirement.

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14+ Years in IT
50+ Solutions Delivered
20+ Certifications
∞ Curiosity
handle: Benji
focus: Networking · Security · Server · Storage · AI
region: South-Africa

02. Core Domains

Throughout my career, my work falls into six core stables — each representing a domain of expertise built up over years of hands-on practice and customer-facing delivery.

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Networking

  • F5 Solution Stack
  • High-Availability Designs & Implimentations
  • Campus / Enterprise / ISP Networks
  • Network Architecture & Capacity Planning
  • WAN Optimization & SD-WAN
  • SPAN/TAP Traffic Analysis
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Security

  • Firewall Design (FortiGate, Palo Alto)
  • F5 Application Security Manager
  • Network Access Control
  • Security architecture & hardening
  • L4/L7 DDoS protection
  • Compliance & Audit Readiness
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Infrastructure

  • Proxmox / KVM virtualization
  • GPU passthrough & SR-IOV
  • Enterprise storage (Block / File / Object)
  • Linux Systems Administration
  • Systemd, Docker, Containerization
  • CI/CD & Automation
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HPC

  • HPC Cluster Design & Deployment
  • Intel / AMD / Nvidia GPU platforms
  • Mellanox / InfiniBand Networking
  • OpenStack Infrastructure
  • Parallel Storage Architectures
  • Cluster benchmarking & optimization
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AI / ML

  • Llama.cpp / VLLM Backend Optimization
  • Multi-node LLM Inference Fleets
  • Model Usability Training
  • LLM Harness Tools
  • AI fleet Orchestration
  • Token Planning & Optimization
📚

Education

  • F5 Networks Certified Trainer
  • H3C Networks Certified Trainer
  • Technical Sales Enablement
  • Pre-sales Architecture Training
  • Knowledge Transfer & Documentation
  • Team Mentorship & Onboarding

02.1 (Some) Certifications

F5 Certified Specialist (App Security)
F5 Certified Administrator (App Delivery)
F5 Certified Professional (Sales)
F5 Certified Trainer
NVIDIA Deep Learning & AI
Mellanox Ethernet & InfiniBand
H3C Networks Trainer
Jovian Open-E Storage Engineer
Virtuozzo OpenStack Infrastructure
Arbor Networks APS Specialist
Riverbed RCSA-WAN Optimization
Arista ACE:L3
HP ASE Flexnetwork Architect
Cisco CCNP Routing & Switching

03. Live Fleet

Real-time metrics from the inference cluster and network edge. Updated every 15 seconds.

⚡ GPU Power — W

🧠 GPU VRAM

🛡️ Active Sessions —

🌐 WAN Latency — / — / — ms

Packet Loss wan1: —% wan2: —% wan3: —%

04. Infrastructure Deliveries

Across my career, I've designed and deployed production infrastructure for enterprise customers across multiple domains, with every solution designed aiming to solve a problem while meeting a budget or technical challenge.

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Load Balancer Architecture

F5 BIG-IP LTM/GTM deployments spanning multi-datacenter high-availability configurations. SSL/TLS offload, health monitoring, traffic management, and security policy enforcement for critical application tiers.

Local LB Global LB L1-7 Proxy SSL/TLS TCP/UDP
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AI Inference Infrastructure

Multi-node LLM inference platforms built on multi-vendor hardware. Custom builds from edge inference to AI-factory scale deployments. Inference platforms, hybrid designs and AI Training solutions.

llama.cpp VLLM CUDA ROCM SYCL OpenWebUI
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Hypervisor & Compute Platforms

OpenStack, KVM, Vmware & Hyper-V GPU-enabled infrastructure, high-speed storage backends, and automated provisioning. Production virtualization environments supporting AI workloads, development platforms, and customer-facing services.

Proxmox KVM OpenStack GPU Passthrough Docker
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Storage & Network Architecture

Enterprise storage designs spanning Block / File / Object - ZFS / Ceph High-speed network architectures including Mellanox InfiniBand for HPC clusters, Small to large scale cold & hot storage tailor-made for your use case.

Ceph RAID InfiniBand ZFS NVMEoF
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Network Automation & Observability

AI-powered network operations platforms combining telemetry data collection, incident automation, and ML-assisted troubleshooting. Packet capture servers, VIP monitoring dashboards, and MCP-integrated network query tools for automated operations.

Python C++ FastMCP n8n Hadoop
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Developer Tools & Platforms

Custom tools for infrastructure operations: SSH/SFTP bridges for agent workflows, Model Context Protocol servers for network query automation, GPU fit planners, and report generation dashboards. Built for the problems I encounter in the field.

Kafka Node.js Powershell C# Bash

05. Get In Touch

Whether you have an opportunity, a question, or just want to chat about, well, anything ; my inbox is always open!

connect.sh
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✓ Connection established
⟐ Status: ● Available
⟐ Preferred channel: LinkedIn / Email
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