Leigh Phillips

Forward Deployed Engineer · AI Infrastructure · Local LLMs

Sunshine Coast, BC, Canada · Pacific Time

lphillips@neurocis.me · LinkedIn · GitHub

Customer‑facing engineering Local LLM deployment .NET / C# · SQL · Python Docker & Kubernetes Linux & networking

About

I’m a technical engineer with 15+ years of experience building and running production systems in healthcare, energy, media, and beyond. I enjoy working directly with users, understanding their workflows, and then shipping the code and infrastructure that actually solves their problems.

Recently I’ve been deep in AI infrastructure: standing up local LLM stacks, building MCP servers, and wiring GPU‑accelerated workloads into real developer workflows. I’m happiest at the intersection of engineering, product, and customers — where “forward deployed” isn’t a buzzword, it’s just how the job works.

Currently

Enterprise Software Technical Analyst at KRONOS / UKG, building customer‑driven scheduling & reporting tools for hospitals.
Experimenting with LocalAI‑based LLM infrastructure and memory systems (MemU, MemZero, Hindsight).
Running containerized AI workloads on mixed NVIDIA / ROCm GPU hardware.

Skills

Engineering & Infrastructure

.NET / C#, Python, SQL, Bash, VBScript, JavaScript, ASP.
Docker, Kubernetes, Linux system administration (Kubuntu/KDE), networking.
Enterprise software deployment, integrations, monitoring, and high‑availability operations.

AI & LLM Infra

LocalAI deployment, model management, OpenAI‑compatible APIs.
GPU acceleration with ROCm and NVIDIA CUDA.
Custom MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and AI agent tooling.

Customer‑Facing

Technical discovery, workflow analysis, and solution architecture.
Running implementations, training teams, and long‑term support.
Translating between sales, product, engineering, and end‑users.

Credentials

MCSE · Enterprise Certified NetWare Engineer (ECNE/CNE).
Continuous Integration certified.
BC Safety Authority – Field Safety Representative (Security Alarm).

Selected Work

Healthcare scheduling & reporting (KRONOS / UKG)

Enterprise Software Technical Analyst – Custom Enhancements Developer

Built and owned custom scheduling/reporting solutions for hospital clients across Canada.
Developed integrations from ESP into Excel and Crystal Reports to let schedulers generate complex staffing reports with a few clicks.
Designed automation that became day‑to‑day tooling for clinical and scheduling teams.

ResiTech Solutions – “Impossible” home automation

Co‑Founder, Administrator & Systems Integrator

Co‑founded an integration company delivering advanced home automation and media systems.
Built HD media servers and URC‑based automation that pushed past what platforms were “supposed” to do.
Handled full lifecycle: discovery, design, install, programming, and ongoing support.

AI & Open‑Source

Deploying LocalAI stacks with GPU acceleration for on‑premise LLM inference.
Experimenting with memory systems like MemU, MemZero, and Hindsight in agentic workflows.
Building custom MCP servers to connect tools, data sources, and models.
Contributing on GitHub to Bitcoin/cryptocurrency libraries and network tooling: github.com/neurocis

Contact

The best way to reach me is email. I’m open to roles and collaborations where I can stay close to both code and customers, especially around AI infrastructure, developer tools, and forward‑deployed engineering.