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Hello, I'm Anthony

Anthony Pierre

Technology Consultant | Operations Leader at Ten10 Academy

Technology consultant placed at the National Crime Agency under eSC Enhanced Security Check clearance, delivering automation and infrastructure projects in a secure dual-network environment. AWS Cloud Practitioner certified, Solutions Architect in progress. Underpinned by 25+ years of senior operations and general management across multi-site, high-volume environments.

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Skills

Experiences

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National Crime Agency

Jul 2024 - Present

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 - Present

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.
Ten10 Academy

Jan 2024 - Present

United Kingdom

Ten10 is a leading technology consultancy and talent academy specialising in cloud, testing and digital transformation.

Technology Consultant

Jul 2024 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Developing AWS cloud consulting expertise through hands-on implementation and certification pathway.
  • Pursuing AWS certifications including Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate.
  • Building practical cloud architecture skills through real-world homelab project implementation.
  • Applying 25+ years of 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.
  • Completed PMP and CompTIA IT Fundamentals qualifications.
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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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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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Self-Healing Homelab MCP with AWS Route 53, CloudWatch and Lambda

There is a particular kind of frustration that comes from a tool dropping mid-session with no warning. My MCP server — the bridge between Claude and my homelab infrastructure — had developed a habit of going quiet at exactly the wrong moment. The fix I built turned out to be a solid piece of AWS architecture. The plot twist was that the problem itself was something else entirely. The Problem My MCP server runs on CT104 (ai-lab) inside a Proxmox LXC container on my home network, exposed via a Cloudflare tunnel. Claude connects to it over SSE (Server-Sent Events), which keeps a long-lived HTTP connection open so tool results can stream back in real time. When that connection dropped, the session was dead — no tools, no homelab access, nothing. The only recovery was a manual SSH in to restart the process.

Monday, 25 May 2026 Read
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Building a Self-Hosted Voice-to-Text Pipeline with Whisper and AWS Bedrock

There is a small but persistent friction point in my workflow: I think faster than I type. When I am working through a problem or drafting something, the gap between thought and text slows everything down. I wanted to be able to speak, get clean written text back, and carry on without sending audio to a third-party API or paying per minute. This is how I built it. The Stack faster-whisper - a CTranslate2-based reimplementation of OpenAI’s Whisper. No PyTorch dependency, significantly smaller image footprint (~500MB vs ~2GB), and genuinely faster on CPU. FastAPI - the backend, handling audio uploads and browser recording. AWS Bedrock Nova Micro - an optional cleanup pass that fixes punctuation, capitalisation, and removes filler words from the raw transcript. Docker on Proxmox LXC - containerised on my existing Docker host alongside Pierre and Sablier. Cloudflare tunnel - HTTPS without a reverse proxy, accessible from desktop and mobile. Why Not the OpenAI Whisper API? The hosted API is fine for occasional use but charges per minute of audio. More importantly, audio stays local with a self-hosted solution. Everything runs on my own infrastructure - the only external call is the optional Bedrock cleanup step, which sends only the raw text transcript, not the audio itself.

Sunday, 26 April 2026 Read
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How GitHub Became the Backbone of My Infrastructure

I started this week thinking of GitHub as a place to store code. I ended it realising it is infrastructure. Over 48 hours of building a self-hosted scraping engine, deploying a portfolio site to AWS, and recovering from a broken WireGuard tunnel, GitHub quietly became the thread that held everything together. Here is what I did not expect. Emergency Deployment My VPS went offline mid-project. No warning, no graceful shutdown, just gone. At that point, my portfolio site at anthonyapierre.com was running as a Hugo container on that same server.

Friday, 3 April 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.