London · open to systems & infrastructure roles

Evan Erkan

Systems & Infrastructure Support Tech · bare-metal AI · Linux · cloud

I support and build operating-system environments, virtualised systems, and operational infrastructure — and I learn by building. Lately that means standing up bare-metal AI workstations on Linux from the kernel up.

AWS Certified · Cloud Practitioner
Across · Linux · Windows · macOS
Focus · Infra · AI · Security
Profile

Systems administrator and infrastructure support engineer with hands-on experience across operating-system environments, virtualised systems and operational infrastructure. Strong proficiency on Windows, macOS and Linux, with an emphasis on system optimisation and secure infrastructure deployment. I work well on my own initiative and as part of a team — and I'm always developing, learning and growing.

Currently building

Featured work

Self-directed project
NIXOS · BARE-METAL AI

Declarative Local LLM Workstation

Designed and deployed a bare-metal AI inference workstation on NixOS — no cloud, no Docker, no proprietary toolchains. When the proprietary SYCL build collapsed I pivoted to the open-source Vulkan backend to fully saturate an Intel Arc A770, then promoted manual inference into always-on declarative system services with snapshot-based recovery on BTRFS.

NixOS llama.cpp Vulkan Ollama Open WebUI BTRFS · Snapper
[ architecture diagram ]

Skills

Hands-on toolkit

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS · EC2S3IAMVPC LambdaCloudFormationRDSRoute 53 Infrastructure as CodeCloud Security

OS, Virtualization & Dev

LinuxWindowsmacOS VMwareHypervisors PythonShellGitVS Code

Networking & Security

Cisco Packet TracerTCP/IP Vulnerability AssessmentNetwork Security VPN ConfigurationAccess Management

Media & Documentation

Server ImplementationStreaming System ArchitectureNetwork Diagrams AgileIoT

Let's build something.

Open to systems & infrastructure roles and interesting projects. The best way to reach me is by email — or take a look at my code.

evanerkan@pm.me GitHub ↗