Infrastructure

• One infrastructure plan for 14 departments

  Designed a comprehensive infrastructure framework for a research institute impacting 14 departments, featuring flexible modules, unified data pipelines, and structured support strategies for long‑term adoption.

• Overhauled internal processes, saving 8,000 hours

  Overhauled internal processes, saving 8,000 hours by improving software architecture, systems, and scheduling efficiency.

• Administered 40 websites on Apache and Nginx

  Administered 40 websites on Ubuntu Linux hosting servers with Apache and Nginx, ensuring high availability and performance.

• A mapping product, carried end to end

  Architected, developed, implemented, supported infrastructure, data processing, and the map application for 2 years non‑stop without any weekends, holidays, or vacations, 10–14 hours a day.

• A tenth of the cloud bill, and nothing lost

  Optimized budget costs 10 times with zero loss in productivity for an international client by reimagining the overall infrastructure, eliminating unnecessary services, and relocating from the AWS cloud.

• Built infrastructure that still runs years later

  Planned and implemented new infrastructure functionality for internal and external systems, building solutions durable enough to still run years later with minimal change.

• Built the entire core infrastructure from scratch

  As one of the first hires, designed and built the entire core infrastructure and supporting processes from scratch for a green‑energy SaaS startup, laying the foundation for rapid growth.

• Built first‑party error monitoring and tracing

  Built first‑party error monitoring and OpenTelemetry tracing rather than buying them — payload sanitising, spike and regression detection, symbolication and a synthetic heartbeat — behind 11 operator views.

• A whole company on one small server

  Ran the whole company on one 512 MB single‑core host — a git forge, a web server serving seven domains, Tor, two alternate‑protocol servers, backups and intrusion banning — by treating 464 MB of usable memory as the binding architectural constraint.

• Your code on your own hardware

  Deployed the company's own git forge on Soft Serve, private by default with no web panel and its SSH port bound to loopback behind a jump host, and made the landing page in front of it a build artefact of the main site rather than a hand‑kept copy.

• Mirrored the site to Gemini and Gopher

  Mirrored the entire site as 777 Gemini documents and 777 Gopher documents off the same deployed tree, at zero bytes of change to the HTML.

• Published a readable Tor onion mirror

  Published the site as a Tor onion mirror on a readable address beginning engineer, with the key generated off the host so it never reached this repository or a laptop, and left it the one front door of four that is never counted.

This work is part of what we offer as Platform & Solution Architecture, DevOps & CI/CD Automation, System Administration, Site Reliability & Monitoring, Website Development & CMS, Cloud Infrastructure & Migration, Infrastructure as Code and Data Pipeline Development (ETL/ELT).

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