Levente Peres

AI & Industrial Infrastructure Consultant

info@sheridan.hu · Hungary (EU-wide) · LinkedIn

I build AI systems that keep their knowledge and infrastructure that keeps working. 20+ years bridging IT, OT, and industrial control systems — now focused on making AI deployments that are sovereign, persistent, and production-grade.

Core Expertise

Lead Offering

On-Premises AI Deployment

70B-class language models on local hardware. Full data sovereignty. Containerized, production-hardened, no cloud dependency.

Lead Offering

AI Knowledge Infrastructure

Institutional memory systems with integrity guarantees. Knowledge that compounds across sessions, projects, and teams — not evaporates.

20+ years

Infrastructure Architecture

Enterprise-grade from scratch: 300+ users, 1PB storage, multi-site VPN, vSphere clusters. SCADA and industrial systems expertise built in.

11+ years

SCADA / ICS & OT Security

Multi-vendor PLC systems (Siemens, Schneider, ABB). NIS2 & IEC 62443 assessments. Water management SCADA domain authority.

Selected Experience

ICS - Sheridan — Founder & Principal Consultant

2024 – present

On-premises AI integration, AI knowledge infrastructure (IDKB ecosystem), SCADA modernization, NIS2/IEC 62443 security assessments. Building production systems where AI knowledge compounds with integrity guarantees.

National Water Management — IT Infrastructure Lead

2014 – 2025 · 11 years

Designed, built, and maintained the complete IT backbone for a 300+ person national organization. From single-office ADSL to 10-server enterprise infrastructure with 1PB storage. SCADA system modernization, industrial wireless networks, critical infrastructure operations.

International Bank — Software Packaging & Global Crisis Recovery

Multi-year enterprise engagement

Enterprise-scale software lifecycle management and global crisis recovery operations. Production incident response across distributed systems.

The Ecosystem Behind the Work

This isn't just a portfolio claim — it's a live system. The numbers below are pulled in real-time from the knowledge infrastructure I built and operate daily.

1,418
knowledge entries
41
projects tracked
9,484
chain events
5
published articles

Technical Profile

AI/ML: On-prem LLM hosting (70B+), Ollama, knowledge management systems, RAG, vector search, prompt engineering
Infrastructure: Linux (11yr+), VMware/vSphere, Docker, HAProxy, Nginx, HPE servers, enterprise storage
Networking: Multi-site VPN, 802.1X, Juniper SRX, IDS/IPS, VLAN segmentation, industrial wireless
ICS/SCADA: Siemens S7/TIA Portal, Schneider, ABB, Modbus TCP, Snap7, web-based HMI
Security: NIS2, IEC 62443, OT network segmentation, incident response
Languages: Hungarian (native), English (advanced / C1), technical writing in both

Every engagement starts with a conversation. If you're looking for someone who bridges AI, infrastructure, and industrial systems — let's talk.

info@sheridan.hu