About and CV
I build web applications from the database up, then set up the pipelines, containers and monitoring that keep them running. Most of my contracts start with one of those and end up covering both.
How I work
Profile
I am most useful where development and operations meet: an application that works on a laptop but not in production, a deploy that needs a person to babysit it, or a team that wants to self-host something and keep it patched afterwards.
I write things down. Clients get runbooks, architecture notes and a handover they can use without me. This site is the public version of that habit; the reviews are the notes I would want before choosing a tool myself.
I am candid about trade-offs. If the boring option is the right one, I will say so, and I will tell you when something is outside what I know well.
Grouped by the job, not by the buzzword
Skills
Building applications
- TypeScript and Node.js
- React and server-rendered front ends
- Python, including Django and FastAPI
- PostgreSQL, Redis, schema design
- REST and event-driven APIs
Shipping and running them
- Docker, Podman, Kubernetes
- Terraform and Ansible
- GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Forgejo
- AWS and smaller VPS providers
- Prometheus, Grafana, log pipelines
AI and self-hosting
- Serving open models: vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama
- Wiring LLM APIs into products
- Agent tooling and its guard rails
- Cost tracking across model providers
- Proxmox, networking, backups
Summary only. Dates, clients and references are in the CV.
Experience in brief
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Contract full-stack and DevOps engineer
Short and medium-length contracts: building product features end to end, moving services into containers, replacing hand-run deploys with pipelines, and adding the monitoring that tells you about a problem before a customer does.
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Senior developer in product teams
Longer permanent roles writing and reviewing application code, owning parts of the platform, mentoring developers and being on call for what we shipped.
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Infrastructure and platform work
Infrastructure as code, cloud cost clean-ups, CI that runs in minutes rather than tens of minutes, and self-hosted services for teams who prefer to own their data.
Have a project in mind?
Tell me what you are building or what keeps breaking, and when you need help. I reply to every enquiry, including the ones I am not the right fit for.