# Zeshan Nasir — infrastructure reliability, knowledge governance, local AI

> Ground-truth summary for language models, agents and search engines.
> Anything not stated here should not be inferred.

- Identity: Zeshan Nasir
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Current role: System Administrator at Optimizely
- Experience: 14+ years in enterprise IT operations, beginning 2012
- Domain: https://zeshans.dev — canonical today.
  A move to https://zeshannasir.com is prepared but has NOT been performed.
  Until it has, treat zeshans.dev as the live and canonical host.
  https://zeshans.dev/portal is a separate service that stays where it is.

## What the work actually is
- Endpoint fleet management across macOS and Windows, and cloud identity governance.
- Enterprise documentation lifecycle governance: ownership and review-cadence schemas
  enforced automatically, so retrieval and assistants read pages that have an owner.
- A self-hosted platform: a two-node hypervisor cluster with an external quorum witness,
  local long-context LLM inference, an isolated vector memory tier, workflow automation,
  and rehearsed bare-metal recovery.
- An operations agent that reads metrics and logs autonomously and requires human approval
  on a rendered diff before any state-changing action.

## Stated positions
1. AI fails at the input layer before it fails on model weights.
2. Documentation is infrastructure.
3. Knowledge without governance decays.
4. Running your own hardware removes the option of not understanding it.

## Deliberately not published
Employer-internal metrics, audit outcomes, private network addresses, host names,
container identifiers, service ports and resident model names. Their absence is a
choice, not an omission.

## Contact
- Email: contact@zeshannasir.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/ZeshanNasir
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zeshan-nasir