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Growing a business is hard enough without your technology stack working against you. Whether your challenge is rising cloud costs, brittle deployment pipelines, or legacy systems that keep your team up at night, I build "invisible" infrastructure: stable, secure, and automated environments.
As a genuine "greybeard", I help businesses bridge the gap between “it works for now” and “it's built to scale”.
Here are three core ways I can help your business...
You need enterprise-grade architecture, but you don't have the time or budget to hire a full-time executive.
Getting your infrastructure right takes years of painful trial and error. I offer a shortcut. With three decades of experience across Linux, DevOps, and Site Reliability, I provide the caliber of infrastructure expertise usually reserved for the Fortune 500 - without the full-time executive price tag.
Through my DevOps Modernisation service, I will transition your team from manual tweaks to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated CI/CD pipelines. You skip the growing pains and immediately get standardised container environments and automated deployments. I also offer fractional SRE commitments (e.g., 5–10 hours/month) to provide proactive maintenance, giving you senior, board-level strategic oversight exactly when you need it.
You don't just need advice; you need a costly, complex problem permanently solved.
Scaling businesses often hit a wall of out-of-control cloud bills and terrifying compliance audits. I don't just manage servers; I optimize the ROI of your technology stack. Through my Cloud Cost Killer service, I run a focused sprint to optimize your infrastructure spend without sacrificing performance.
The Proof: I have a track record of driving massive efficiencies, including reducing datacentre costs from $3m to $1m per year, and driving £192k in annual OPEX savings through custom KVM private cloud migrations. I typically find enough savings in the first 90 days to pay for my services for the entire year.
Furthermore, if you are facing compliance hurdles, I have successfully orchestrated company-wide security governance and passed all 355 controls for PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance. I will find the 'ghosts in the machine' that your team has been too busy to track down.
You want to sleep at night knowing your systems are online, secure, and recoverable.
Fear is the enemy of velocity. Developers fear breaking production, and leadership fears catastrophic downtime. My ultimate deliverable is peace of mind.
With my Reliability Engine, I build the ultimate 'Insurance Policy' to ensure your systems are as stable as they are secure. I implement automated patch management, 24/7 tuned monitoring toprevent "alert fatigue," and—crucially—backup verification that actually tests recovery, not just the backup.
I have maintained >99.99% uptime for private clouds serving over 1,200 eCommerce sites and securing over £1 billion in annual revenue. I will transition your team from deploying once a week with "fear" to deploying ten times a day with confidence.
Allow your developers to ship faster, and your leadership to sleep better.
I'm "big" on talking, even better if it's IRL. I'm "bigger" on direct answers; present me with your 'ask' and I'll quickly tell you what's with my area of expertise, what I can do (or not) and give you a plan, ultimately saving you time.
Get in touch:
+44 (0)191 535 5317
When you've been operating systems from budget constrained start-ups to enterprise-grade international IT, you see, touch and learn more than is immediately visible.
There are no stupid questions - if it's Linux, infrastructure or anywhere in-between, just ask.
My services portfolio is growing; in addition to the core services, here's what's available right now:
Custom Linux Build - build once, deploy everywhere in VMs and containers
Infrastructure Deep Dive - finding where the risks hide and ways to make everything better
Technical Audit & Compliance - getting you through that technical audit for PCI-DSS Level 1 (and others)