Marcus Pichler

CTO THINKING. BUILDER MENTALITY.

From Edge to Cloud to AI.

More than 25 years in enterprise IT: retail platforms, connected mobility, IoT, cloud and Kubernetes. My focus now is AI.

I design, build and operate AI platforms: retrieval, agents, observability. Self-hosted models where the data has to stay in-house, hosted APIs where they fit better.

The assistant on this site runs on my own hardware: Gemma 4 12B via Ollama on a single RTX 3060, with retrieval over Qdrant.

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Key Strengths

AI · Edge · Cloud · DevOps, built over 25+ years

AI Architecture & LLMOps

AI platforms end to end: inference, retrieval, agent orchestration, tracing and cost control, on self-hosted models and hosted APIs.

Edge & Cloud Architecture

AWS Certified Solutions Architect with hands-on experience from sensors and gateways through to Kubernetes.

Platform Engineering

Infrastructure as Code, GitOps and CI/CD automation, with observability and security designed in from the start.

Recent Experience

Enterprise IT since 2001

Nov 2025 - Present
IT Architect
Land Salzburg, Austria

Architecting and implementing an on-premise AI platform on NVIDIA B300, alongside end-to-end IoT solutions from the device layer to cloud connectivity.

Oct 2022 - Oct 2025
IoT Solution Architect
PIERER Innovation, Salzburg

Orchestrated IoT project implementations for connected motorcycle platforms, including technical specifications and integration processes.

2001 - 2021
Various Senior Roles
SPAR ICS, Salzburg

20 years progressing from IT support and POS technology to Enterprise Architect, Innovation Lab Technical Lead and Senior Product Lead.

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Featured Projects

Systems I have designed, built and operate

ALOIS - Agentic AI Platform

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Self-hosted multi-agent platform on LangGraph and LangMem. Seventeen personas on one runtime, each with its own role, tools and long-term memory.

RAG Chatbot on Self-Hosted Infrastructure

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The assistant on this site: Gemma 4 12B on a single RTX 3060, hybrid retrieval over Qdrant, running entirely on self-hosted infrastructure.

AI Red Team Assessment

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OWASP LLM Top 10:2025 assessment against the production RAG chatbot on this site: white-box audit plus live attacks from inside and outside.

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Latest from the Blog

Notes on AI infrastructure, agents and operations

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