VaninoLLC
AI & Information Security — Alex Vanino
Building and securing AI infrastructure. Volunteer EMT. Passionate about self-hosted systems, LLM deployment, and open-source infrastructure. Founded by Alex Vanino.
Expertise
Artificial Intelligence
Self-hosted LLM infrastructure: Ollama, Open WebUI, LibreChat. GPU-accelerated inference on Proxmox clusters. RAG pipelines, embedding models, and local AI search engines. Model deployment, quantization, and performance optimization.
Information Security
Secure infrastructure design and hardening. OAuth2/SSO authentication with oauth2-proxy and Google Identity. Network segmentation, reverse proxy gateways, TLS everywhere. Zero-trust architecture for self-hosted services.
Volunteer EMT
Certified Emergency Medical Technician serving the community as a volunteer first responder. Experienced in emergency medical care, crisis response, and pre-hospital life support. Committed to public service and community health.
Background
AI Infrastructure & Self-Hosted Systems
Design and operate a comprehensive self-hosted AI infrastructure stack on Proxmox VE. Deploy and manage GPU-accelerated LLM inference servers, AI chat interfaces (Open WebUI, LibreChat), and local AI-powered search engines (SearXNG, Perplexica). Experience with NVIDIA GPU passthrough in LXC containers, Ollama model serving, RAG pipelines, and embedding-based retrieval systems.
Information Security & Infrastructure
Build and maintain secure multi-node Proxmox clusters with Ceph distributed storage, VLAN segmentation, and defense-in-depth network architecture. Implement zero-trust access patterns with oauth2-proxy, Google OAuth SSO, certificate management via certbot/Let's Encrypt, and infrastructure-as-code using NetBox for DNS and IPAM.
Volunteer Emergency Medical Services
Active volunteer EMT providing emergency medical response and pre-hospital care in the community. Trained in patient assessment, trauma care, cardiac emergencies, and crisis intervention. Dedicated to serving others through skilled medical care under pressure.
Let's Connect
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Connect on LinkedInAbout This Application
This domain (vaninollc.com) is owned and operated by VaninoLLC and serves as the authentication provider for a suite of self-hosted AI and infrastructure applications.
The Google OAuth consent screen (registered under the name VaninoLLC) provides secure Google Sign-In and single sign-on (SSO) for authorized users accessing our private, internal tools:
- ▹Open WebUI — AI chat interface with LLM-powered conversations
- ▹LibreChat — Multi-model AI chat platform
- ▹Monitoring & Infrastructure — Grafana, Prometheus, and internal dashboards
These applications are private and only accessible to members of the VaninoLLC team. The OAuth consent screen allows us to authenticate users through their existing Google accounts, eliminating the need for separate credentials while maintaining security through Google's identity platform.