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Hello, I'm Anthony

Anthony Pierre

Technology Consultant | Operations Leader

Technology consultant and operations leader with hands-on cloud and infrastructure experience. Most recently a placement at the National Crime Agency via Ten10 Academy, now Scale Factory. AWS Cloud Practitioner certified, Solutions Architect Associate in progress. Currently building Synket, an independent software studio, while pursuing my next Service Delivery Manager or IT Operations Manager role. Underpinned by senior operations and general management experience across multi-site, high-volume environments.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Skills

Experiences

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Synket

Jun 2026 - Present

United Kingdom

Synket is my independent software studio, where I design, build and ship cloud-hosted products end to end.

Founder

Jun 2026 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Designing, building and deploying production applications end to end (Android, cloud APIs, automation pipelines), from architecture decisions through to production deployment.
  • Applying the operational discipline used in enterprise environments to a self-directed technical practice.
National Crime Agency

Jul 2024 - Jul 2026

United Kingdom

The NCA is the UK’s lead agency against serious and organised crime. Working within a secure dual-network environment with enhanced security clearance.

Support Analyst

Jul 2024 - Jul 2026

Responsibilities:
  • Employed within a highly sensitive national law enforcement environment under eSC Enhanced Security Check clearance.
  • Role details restricted in line with the confidential nature of the organisation. Confirmation of employment and clearance level available on request.
  • Pursued extensive self-directed technical development outside of work hours, building cloud infrastructure, AWS-integrated systems, and software projects independently.
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Ten10 Academy (now Scale Factory)

Jan 2024 - Jul 2026

United Kingdom

Ten10 was a leading technology consultancy and talent academy specialising in cloud, testing and digital transformation. Rebranded as Scale Factory in June 2026.

Technology Consultant

Jul 2024 - Jul 2026

Responsibilities:
  • Developed AWS cloud consulting expertise through hands-on implementation and certification pathway.
  • Pursued AWS certifications including Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate.
  • Built practical cloud architecture skills through real-world homelab project implementation.
  • Applied senior operations management experience to technology and service delivery engagements.
Technology Consultant Trainee

Jan 2024 - Jul 2024

Responsibilities:
  • Enrolled in structured technology consultancy training programme covering IT fundamentals, ITIL service management, and professional consulting practices.
  • Achieved ITIL v4 Foundation certification during this period.

Education

University of Essex
2022-2024
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Extracurricular Activities:
  • Applied strategic management and operations to technology consulting contexts.
  • Developed business transformation frameworks relevant to cloud and digital projects.

Projects

Homelab AI Monitoring Agent
Homelab AI Monitoring Agent
Owner Jan 2026 - Present

AI-powered infrastructure monitoring agent using AWS Bedrock, Proxmox API and Telegram notifications. Automatically analyses 25+ container metrics and alerts on anomalies. Rebuild playbooks on GitHub at github.com/mrapierre/Homelab-Playbooks

cloud infrastructure automation
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AWS Cloud Consulting Portfolio
AWS Cloud Consulting Portfolio
Owner 2026 - Present

Building AWS cloud consulting expertise through hands-on implementation, certification pathway and real-world architecture projects targeting enterprise clients.

cloud professional
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Device Rollout Automation
Device Rollout Automation
Analyst 2025 - Present

Designed automation workflows using BMC Remedy and Power Automate to streamline device rollout programmes processing 100-200 devices per wave at the National Crime Agency.

automation professional
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Secure Homelab Infrastructure
Secure Homelab Infrastructure
Owner 2024 - Present

Enterprise-grade homelab running Proxmox VE with 25+ LXC containers, WireGuard VPN, Cloudflare tunnels, ZFS storage, Grafana monitoring and self-hosted services.

infrastructure hobby
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HomelabDashboard - Android App
HomelabDashboard - Android App
Owner Mar 2026 - Present

Native Android dashboard for the Homelab AI Monitoring Agent. Built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with live container monitoring, push notifications with inline controls, and a simulation engine queryable from the phone.

infrastructure automation
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OSINT Research Laboratory
OSINT Research Laboratory
Owner Mar 2026 - Present

Self-hosted OSINT platform on Proxmox LXC, combining 11 specialist tools unified under a FastAPI/WebSocket dashboard with real-time streaming output and SQLite scan history.

infrastructure automation
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Whisper Voice Infrastructure
Whisper Voice Infrastructure
Owner Apr 2026 - Present

Self-hosted speech-to-text platform extending faster-whisper into a system-wide Windows voice daemon and Telegram voice integration, replacing keyboard input across every application with sub-800ms local transcription.

infrastructure automation
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Publications

Reticulum Mesh Network Installation Journey: From Proxmox LXC to Windows Client
Ten10 Academy Knowledge Base November 2025
Anthony Pierre

A complete guide to building a resilient backup communication path to home infrastructure using Reticulum over I2P. Covers LXC container setup, anonymous routing, Windows client configuration, persistent services and mesh expansion planning. Motivated by the November 2025 Cloudflare global outage.

Reticulum I2P Proxmox Mesh Networking Security
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Migrating Plex on a Home Proxmox Server to a Cloud-Based Virtual Private Server
Ten10 Academy Knowledge Base 2025
Anthony Pierre

A practical guide to migrating Plex Media Server from a local Proxmox LXC container to a cloud-hosted Proxmox VPS. Covers hybrid infrastructure strategy, SSH key authentication, Cloudflare tunnel integration and Proxmox-native backup and restore workflows.

Proxmox VPS Plex Cloud Migration Hybrid Infrastructure
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Proxmox Essentials: From Media Server to IT Applications and Testing Workflows
Ten10 Academy Knowledge Base 2025
Anthony Pierre

An introductory guide to Proxmox VE covering virtualisation concepts, bare-metal installation, static IP configuration, LXC container setup and Plex Media Server deployment. Includes a detailed Debian vs Ubuntu template comparison for testing environments and CI/CD pipeline considerations.

Proxmox Virtualisation LXC Docker Testing
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Featured Posts

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Building the HomelabDashboard Android App from Scratch

There is a certain point in homelab development where browser bookmarks and SSH sessions stop being a sensible way to manage things. When you are running 25+ LXC containers across a Proxmox host, a Romanian VPS, and a Docker stack, you want a single place to see everything, and you want it in your pocket. That is where HomelabDashboard came from. Not a third-party monitoring tool, not a pre-built solution, but a native Android app built from scratch in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, connected to a real Flask API running on my own infrastructure.

Tuesday, 24 March 2026 Read
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Running an AI Monitoring Agent on AWS Bedrock for £0.02 a Month

When I started building an AI monitoring agent for the homelab, the obvious concern was cost. AWS Bedrock is powerful, but running AI analysis on a continuous basis against 25+ containers sounded like a recipe for a surprising monthly bill. The solution was tiered model routing, and it keeps the entire operation running for approximately £0.02 per month. The Tiering Logic AWS Bedrock’s Nova model family has three tiers with very different price points. Nova Micro is the cheapest available at around $0.035 per million input tokens. Nova Lite sits in the middle. Nova Pro is the most capable and the most expensive.

Wednesday, 18 March 2026 Read
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Rebuilding the OSINT Lab: FastAPI, WebSockets, and 11 Tools Confirmed

When I first built the OSINT lab, the goal was simple: a dedicated, network-isolated environment for open source intelligence work running inside a Proxmox LXC container. Maltego and SpiderFoot were up and running, the container was air-gapped from the rest of the homelab, and it did the job. The problem was the dashboard. The original implementation used Node.js with Server-Sent Events to stream tool output to the browser, and it was fragile. SSE connections would drop unpredictably, tool output would get cut off mid-run, and the whole thing had a tendency to fall over under any kind of sustained load. It worked just well enough to be annoying rather than broken enough to force a fix, until I decided to fix it properly.

Saturday, 28 March 2026 Read

Recent Posts

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When Your Code Reviewer Needs a Code Review

I run a small home lab that, among other things, uses AI models to review code before it ships. Nothing exotic in principle: one model writes or changes something, a second, independent model looks at it cold and reports back, and nothing gets merged until the findings are dealt with. I built this because I don’t fully trust any single model’s judgement on its own, myself included on my off days.

Thursday, 23 July 2026 Read
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The Reviewer Who Never Sees My Work First

Somewhere in the first few months of running this homelab, I noticed a pattern I didn’t like. I’d ask Claude to build something, it would build it, and then it would tell me the build was good. Not dishonestly, it genuinely believed its own work was sound. But that’s exactly the problem with grading your own homework: the mistakes you’re most likely to miss are the ones baked into how you were already thinking about the task. A second pair of eyes catches those. Your own eyes, looking at your own work a second time, mostly don’t.

Tuesday, 21 July 2026 Read
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The Eighty Percent Rule

The review process I wrote about last time answers a “what happens” question: when Claude hands work to DeepSeek, the review that follows is blind, evidence based, and enforced by a gate rather than good manners. What it doesn’t answer is “when.” A handoff that fires too early wastes a perfectly good working session. One that fires too late means Claude runs out of usage mid change, with nothing clean for DeepSeek to actually pick up. Getting the timing right turned out to be its own small project, and a more interesting one than I expected.

Tuesday, 21 July 2026 Read

Accomplishments

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services 2026

Foundational AWS certification covering cloud concepts, core services, security, architecture, pricing and support. First step in AWS Solutions Architect pathway.

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ITIL Foundation
AXELOS 2025

ITIL Foundation certification covering IT service management best practices, service lifecycle and continual service improvement.

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MBA
University of Essex 2024

Master of Business Administration covering strategic management, operations, finance and leadership. Applied to technology consulting and business transformation.