About

Bilawal Riaz

Platform Operations Engineer. Builder. Writer.

I am a Platform Operations Engineer based in Greater Manchester, UK. My work centres on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and platform operations, with a strong focus on Azure AI infrastructure and cloud cost optimisation.

Day to day, I manage Kubernetes clusters (AKS) and Azure AI Foundry deployments, overseeing model hosting, vector database infrastructure, and platform costings. Alongside core operations, I build internal RAG applications, automation tools, and agent workflows.

Prior to platform engineering, I spent several years in bioinformatics managing scientific data processing pipelines and automation systems. Outside work, I build side projects ranging from local LLM fine-tuning experiments and voice-transcript analysis pipelines to autonomous web tools.

What I write about

  • Platform & Cloud: Kubernetes (AKS), Azure infrastructure, cloud cost optimisation, and observability
  • AI Infrastructure & Tooling: Azure AI Foundry deployments, model hosting, vector databases, RAG systems, and agent workflows
  • Projects & Automation: Local model fine-tuning (LoRA, Unsloth), internal tools, and developer workflows

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