Services
I help organisations design, automate and operate reliable platforms and backend systems—from public cloud and Kubernetes to private, regulated and fully air-gapped environments.
Cloud & Platform Engineering Link to heading
Infrastructure your team can reproduce and operate, whether you need a migration or a more maintainable platform.
- Design and migrate infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Hetzner, OpenStack and private cloud environments.
- Build and improve Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms for application and engineering teams.
- Standardise infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible and reusable platform components.
- Design resilient networking, compute, storage, load-balancing and service architectures.
- Reduce single points of failure and create platforms that are scalable, reproducible and easier to operate.
DevOps, Automation & Reliability Link to heading
Repeatable releases, useful monitoring and a clear recovery path help your team operate with confidence.
- Build CI/CD and GitOps workflows that make software delivery faster, safer and more consistent.
- Automate release, deployment, configuration and operational processes across multiple environments.
- Introduce observability through metrics, logs, dashboards, alerting and actionable health checks.
- Improve platform security through hardening, secrets management and controlled access.
- Design backup and disaster-recovery processes, document recovery procedures and test restores.
- Troubleshoot complex production and platform issues across infrastructure and application boundaries.
Backend Engineering Link to heading
APIs, services and integrations need to work in day-to-day operations as well as in development.
- Design and develop backend services, REST APIs and integrations using Java and Spring, Node.js and Python.
- Create maintainable service boundaries, data models and application architectures.
- Work with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB and external systems.
- Build testing, security, logging and observability into applications from the beginning.
- Modernise existing applications and prepare them for containerised and cloud-native operation.
- Take operational responsibility with a “you build it, you run it” engineering mindset.
Private Cloud & Self-Hosting Link to heading
Keep control over your data with self-hosted services and the operational foundations needed to maintain them.
- Design secure self-hosted platforms for organisations and privacy-conscious individuals who want control over their data.
- Deploy and operate private photo management, document management and collaboration services.
- Protect data through disk encryption, network segmentation and controlled remote access.
- Implement automated backups, database protection and documented recovery procedures.
- Add monitoring, alerting, system hardening and reliable update processes.
- Automate infrastructure and configuration so that systems remain reproducible and maintainable.
Secure, Regulated & Air-Gapped Environments Link to heading
Across these services, my recent work has focused particularly on platforms where security, compliance and restricted connectivity are fundamental architectural constraints.
- Design cloud-native developer platforms for regulated and fully air-gapped environments.
- Apply GitOps and configuration as code without depending on unrestricted internet access or external SaaS services.
- Build reproducible delivery processes for infrastructure, applications, automation content and platform configuration.
- Integrate secure credential management and controlled operational workflows.
- Work across application, platform, infrastructure and security teams to improve delivery within compliance requirements.
Start with the problem Link to heading
Tell me about your current setup, the change you need, and the constraints around time, budget or operations. We can define a focused scope and agree how to assess the result.