About Me

I'm Clay, a technologist based in Queensland, Australia. I run a home AI lab called REX - a Windows 11 machine hosting a fleet of Hyper-V VMs, backed by a Juniper virtual-chassis core switch, an OPNsense firewall, and a growing collection of self-hosted AI services.

This blog is where I document what I build and learn - including the parts that turned out to be wrong. Topics include local LLM inference, network automation via MCP servers, running agents against real infrastructure, and the occasional Roblox art project.

The Stack

• Compute: Hyper-V VMs - KaliLinux (GVM/discovery), UbuntuClaw (Homer, the lab assistant), DebIdentity (Authentik, Step-CA), DebApps (Home Assistant, SearXNG, Traefik, observability), VoiceGW (Whisper STT, Coqui TTS, wearable voice gateway), plus two utility VMs on Synology VMM
• Local inference: vLLM in WSL2 serving Swift-Qwen3.8-27B (NVFP4) on an RTX 5090
• Network: Juniper EX3400 virtual chassis core, OPNsense firewall with CrowdSec, Aruba 7010 wireless controller, Synology NAS over 10GbE
• Cloud: GCP - private and public LiteLLM proxies, Vertex AI & AI Studio failover for Claude, Gemini & open-weights models, Cloud Run voice relay, WireGuard site-to-site and road-warrior VPNs
• AI Agents: Claude Code, Antigravity and Gemini CLI, Homer (Hermes Agent) on local-only inference, five custom infrastructure MCP servers split into read-only and write-gated instances

Last reviewed October 2026. The architecture page has the current diagram.

Get in Touch

Find me on GitHub.