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The technical work documented across llmadvisor.ai and its associated project domains spans a deliberately broad surface area because real AI systems require competence across the full stack. Representative focus areas include:

• Hardware evaluation & testing — GPU, NPU, accelerator, CPU, and storage-subsystem benchmarking; thermal and power profiling; node-level cost-per-token analysis
• Software development — backend services, agent runtimes, inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and edge-deployable applications
• IT infrastructure — networking, storage, observability, security hardening, and operational automation for AI workloads
• Sovereign & self-hosted infrastructure — on-premise and colocated clusters where data residency, regulatory scope, or cost predictability require it
• Distributed & multi-node systems — coordination across heterogeneous nodes, scheduling, workload placement, and failure-domain design
• AI edge compute — low-latency inference at the edge, Cloudflare Workers / compute-at-origin patterns, and privacy-preserving edge pipelines
• Applied LLM & GPT engineering — model selection, fine-tuning, evaluation, prompt engineering, agent design, retrieval systems, and multi-model orchestration
• Boutique AI engagements — small-scale, custom, purpose-built AI systems where off-the-shelf products do not fit the problem

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