Fastapi

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🔒 Building a PII Guardrail Proxy for Cloud LLM Calls

A local model classifies every prompt before it leaves the cluster. If it’s sensitive, it’s blocked. If it’s clean, it goes to NVIDIA NIM. 150 lines of FastAPI, deployed on k3s.

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🕵️ Privacy-Preserving LLM Pipelines: Anonymize Before You Send

Replace PII with semantically realistic fakes before sending to a cloud LLM, then restore the originals from the response. Started with a general model and prompt engineering — then upgraded to a purpose-built 1.7B fine-tune via Ollama.

Attack efficiency heatmap — win rate by attacker and defender dice count

📊 I Added a Stats Service to My Game to Answer One Question. It Multiplied.

Building a telemetry backend for Dice & Shrines — every attack logged, every guardian tracked, every die rolled accounted for. What the data revealed about balance, luck, and how people actually play.