Reliability
Design for failure modes and make recovery boring.
Infrastructure & platform delivery
I combine governance, infrastructure fluency, and operational leadership to deliver complex change. Reliability, security, and clarity are the baseline — not the stretch goal.

Design for failure modes and make recovery boring.
Auditability, least privilege, and dependable governance.
Repeatable builds and predictable delivery workflows.
Platform engineering
Built and operate a self-hosted platform to demonstrate judgement in infrastructure design, risk controls, and disciplined operations without relying on outsourced teams.
Transformation
Delivered a six-workstream transformation for a national charity, aligning governance, finance, operations, and technology under one delivery cadence.
Operations
Led day-to-day IT operations for a national charity, balancing reliability, security, GDPR compliance, and support for 130+ staff with vendor oversight, stakeholder management, governance, budget visibility, Azure/AD, and access controls.
October 2025
How building a self-hosted homelab reshaped how I think about reliability, risk, and operational discipline.
February 2026
The roles declared in Terraform were designed to feed Ansible. Ansible was built to stand up k3s. This is how a three-node cluster assembles itself from a single playbook run.
February 2026
I automated forgetting how to create VMs. A shift from manual provisioning to declarative, role-based platform thinking on Proxmox.
January 2026
How I set up GitLab CE with automated pipelines on my homelab—and what I learned the hard way about SSL termination, reverse proxies, and infrastructure design.
I work at the intersection of governance and infrastructure, translating strategic ambition into systems that hold up in the real world.
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