About Me

I'm Lárus Hjartarson — an AI, datacenter, DevOps and cloud architect, and the founder of Peritus slf, a consultancy in Reykjavík, Iceland.

My work has followed the whole stack down and back up again. I started in IT support, went deep into VMware and datacenter virtualization — earning the VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX-DCV #192) in 2015 and the VMware vExpert award eight years running (2012–2019) — then moved into multicloud and security architecture, then DevOps and platform engineering, and today I build AI-native systems and agents. The through-line is the one a friend likes to tease me about: I enjoy connecting every part of IT into one holistic design, with a stubborn passion for security and detail.

At Peritus that now means two things side by side. I still do the cloud, security and infrastructure consulting and architecture that's been my craft for years — and I design and ship software: knowledge graphs, AI products, and the agent-driven operating system we run the company on. My standing interests are MultiCloud, Cloud Security, and AI.

I came to all of this sideways: my degree is a BSc in Molecular Biology from the University of Iceland. As it turns out, modelling complex living systems and modelling complex technical ones aren't so far apart.

The interactive map on the home page is the fullest picture of what I know and what I can do — including a timeline you can play to watch it grow from a 2008 datacenter to today's AI work. For the formal record, my LinkedIn has the full history.