Phil Rich
Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
Networks, cloud, agentic engineering. Co-founder of Quiet Loon.
Now
Leading an internal pilot using Claude Code across infrastructure and platform teams. Co-founder of Quiet Loon, an AI-powered family admin tool. Running local LLM inference on consumer hardware to explore the boundary between hosted and on-prem agentic workflows.
Selected work
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Co-founded. Backend, data pipeline, and infrastructure. Next.js, Convex, Gemini, Twilio. In public beta.
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Agentic engineering programme
Solo pilot using Claude Code across infrastructure and platform teams. Governance-first, vendor-agnostic, scoped for formal programme adoption.
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Local LLM inference benchmarking
Comparative evaluation of quantised models on consumer Blackwell hardware. Delegation architecture for hosted-to-local agentic handoff.
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Network infrastructure as code
Migrated enterprise firewall policy to Terraform with GitOps validation. Network infrastructure built declaratively from the ground up.
Background
Multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure), network engineering, and platform operations, with recent focus on agentic workflows, local LLM inference, and AI governance.