LAUDAT · Munich, Germany

Mihai Laudat

I build and run LAUDAT — a production practice, a self-hosted infrastructure stack, and the policies that keep them accountable.

About

I'm a student at the Lion-Feuchtwanger-Gymnasium in Munich. Under the LAUDAT name I work across three areas: production — planning and shooting film and aerial video and building the web pieces that go with it; infrastructure — a self-hosted stack I design, run, and secure across home hardware and rented servers in Germany and Romania; and policy — the terms, privacy, and acceptable-use documents that govern those services. LAUDAT is steadily being formalised as a brand and entity.

What LAUDAT does

01 — Production

Film, aerial & web

Concept-to-delivery production: on-location and aerial cinematography with a DJI Mini 3, handled with the flight approvals and liability paperwork real shoots require — plus the web pieces that ship alongside them, from study guides to literary-analysis microsites and interactive learning tools.

02 — Infrastructure

A self-hosted platform

Identity, mesh networking, media, video, automation, DNS, routing, local AI, and deep packet inspection — designed, deployed, and monitored across home hardware and rented servers in Germany and Romania.

03 — Policy

Governance & documentation

The Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Acceptable Use rules that set expectations for everyone using the LAUDAT services — written to keep a self-hosted platform accountable.

Read the policies →

The stack

A self-hosted platform built from open-source parts and run on a mix of edge hardware and cloud servers — identity and networking at the base, services and local AI on top, with monitoring and policy around the edges.

Identity

authentik

Single sign-on and OIDC in front of every service.

Networking

Headscale + Headplane

A private WireGuard mesh with ACL-based access control.

Edge

pfSense · Netgate 6100

Routing and firewalling on dedicated hardware.

Proxy & DNS

NPMplus · AdGuard Home

Reverse proxy with network-wide DNS filtering.

Video

Frigate · go2rtc

NVR on an Intel N100 with OpenVINO/VAAPI; H.265→H.264 restreaming.

Media

Jellyfin

A self-hosted media library.

Automation

Home Assistant

Local-first home and device automation.

Local AI

Qwen3 on dual T4

Self-hosted LLMs behind an OpenRouter / Open WebUI gateway.

Security

Arkime · Suricata

Full-packet capture and intrusion detection.

Hosting

Unraid · IONOS · Hetzner

Edge hardware plus rented servers in the cloud.

Routing

ASN & BGP

Working toward independent addressing via a sponsored LIR.

Get in touch

For production work, infrastructure questions, or anything about the LAUDAT services.