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Freelance web developer and technology consultant based in Surrey

With over 10 years of experience in software development, DevOps, Linux Administration, and IT solutions, I help businesses meet their technology goals, promote growth, and find savings.

API Development

  • PHP API devlopment
  • Experienced with AWS automation
  • Suite of open source packages for rapid development
  • Bespoke package development
  • Automated testing

Automation

  • Infrastructure as code (Terraform/OpenTofu)
  • CI/CD Pipelines (Gitlab/Bitbucket/Jenkins)
  • Docker
  • Rundeck
  • Ansible
  • Custom API-based solutions

Payment Handling (Stripe)

  • Bespoke integration with Stripe payment gateway.
  • Automate payments and subscriptions.
  • Automate invoice handling
  • Automate tax adjustments and shipping/billing details
  • Automatically split payments with contractors/suppliers.
  • Allow customers to pay through any method they like (card/Klarna/Applie Pay etc)

Software Architecture

  • Service oriented architecture (SOA)
  • Managing load through queues and horizontal scaling
  • Scalability and Simplicity
  • Division of roles and responsibilities
  • Knowledge of off-the-shelf solutions for aspects such as authentication.

Hosting & Backups

  • Provision, configure, and support Cloud/Proxmox/Dedicated hosting to clients.
  • Creation of bespoke backup solutions based on your specific requirements.
  • Handle any size of data, with strict uptime requirements and encryption.
  • Use of technologies such as ZFS, LVM, Duplicity, and rsync.

Monitoring

  • Be aware of developing issues, before they become problems.
  • Awareness of resource utilisation.
  • Aware of future scaling issues.
  • Notifications via email, phone, Discord, Teams etc.
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Zabbix

Stress Testing

  • Find the limits of your systems to ensure they can handle expected loads.
  • Diagnose and fix potential causes of slowdowns.

Security & Authentication

  • Firewalls (AWS, pfSense, OPNsense, iptables, nftables, UFW, Proxmox)
  • API authentication schemes (OIDC / OAuth2 / HMAC etc)
  • Password management and sharing (Passbolt)
  • Service credential management
  • TOTP / OTP / 2FA / MFA
  • LDAP / Kerberos

Service Integrations

  • Integrate your platform or IT solutions with other third-party services.
  • Log into all of your systems with one user account (SSO), which could even be Microsoft Office.
  • Provide advice on whether existing technologies could be used, or build bespoke solutions.

Technologies & Skills

The nature of my work means I'm constantly adapting to new technologies and demands, so the skills below is a guide of things I work with day-to-day.

Get in touch

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