Level‑up your Development and DevOps

We help small and medium businesses modernise their delivery on AWS and Azure: infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containers, data platforms, observability and secure cloud migration — without the enterprise‑grade overhead.

AWS Certified SME‑first engagement model Remote‑friendly • UK/EU Security‑minded (OWASP/WebSec)

Services for growing teams

Targeted to SMEs that need experienced hands to accelerate delivery, improve reliability and cut cloud costs.

Cloud Foundations (AWS)

Landing zones, networking, security baselines, cost guardrails and account strategy.

Terraform AWS CDK SST IAM

CI/CD & Platform Enablement

Modern pipelines and golden paths for engineers so shipping is fast and safe.

GitHub Actions Jenkins Bamboo ArgoCD

Containers & Orchestration

Production‑grade Kubernetes, ECS/Fargate, service mesh and secure supply chain.

Kubernetes ECS/Fargate Helm Envoy

Data & Workflow Platforms

Build robust data lakes and pipelines, and orchestrate workflows.

Airflow/Astronomer Athena/Glue SageMaker Dremio

Observability & Reliability

Proactive monitoring, tracing and cost visibility tailored for SMEs.

DataDog New Relic ELK / OpenSearch Sumo Logic

Legacy to Cloud Modernisation

Pragmatic pathways from on‑prem/Azure to AWS, including .NET re‑platforming.

.NET 6/8 Node & TypeScript Next.js GraphQL

Deep expertise

Technologies I use day‑to‑day across platforms, pipelines and data.

AWS
Terraform
CDK
SST
GitHub Actions
Kubernetes
ECS / Fargate
Helm
Envoy / Service Mesh
Airflow / Astronomer
Athena / Glue
SageMaker
Dremio
New Relic
Sumo Logic
DataDog
Kafka
Postgres
GraphQL / Hasura
.NET Core
TypeScript / Node
Next.js
JupyterHub
Bamboo / Jenkins
ELK

Selected work (anonymised)

A few recent engagements. Company names and locations are intentionally omitted.

Public Transport Platform — DevOps uplift

Aug 2023 – Present

Introduced SST and Terraform for IaC at scale, standardised GitHub Actions workflows and implemented multi‑account AWS strategies. Built TypeScript utilities and deployment patterns that reduced lead time to minutes.

Stack: AWS, SST, CDK, Terraform, TypeScript, GitHub Actions, DataDog

Financial Services — Data platform & tooling

Oct 2022 – Oct 2023

Supported engineering squads with Airflow/Astronomer orchestration, JupyterHub environments and observability via New Relic and Sumo Logic. Standardised CI with Bamboo/Jenkins, all within Kubernetes and managed AWS services.

Stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Airflow/Astronomer, Dremio, JupyterHub, New Relic, Sumo Logic, Bamboo, Jenkins

API estate migration — TypeScript → .NET

Sep 2022 – Oct 2022

Short, focused delivery to migrate REST/GraphQL services from TypeScript to .NET 6, aligning with future AWS hosting on containers and Lambda.

Stack: .NET 6, GraphQL, REST, AWS

Multiple product teams — Event‑driven services

Jul 2021 – Sep 2022

Built and coached teams on event‑driven architecture with Kafka and Postgres, API layers with GraphQL/Hasura, and platform automation with Helm and Kubernetes.

Stack: Python, Node, GraphQL, Hasura, Kafka, Postgres, Helm, Kubernetes

Website modernisation — Azure → AWS

May 2020 – Oct 2021

Migrated a large CMS to AWS, re‑platforming to Windows containers on ECS, codifying infra with Terraform and building CI/CD with GitHub Actions.

Stack: Umbraco, Windows Containers, ECS, Terraform, GitHub Actions

Data platform & cloud migration

Aug 2019 – May 2020

Delivered a reverse proxy and service‑mesh‑ready pattern with Envoy to support incremental AWS migration. Built Airflow‑based task orchestration and improved data lake capabilities with Glue, Athena and SageMaker.

Stack: AWS, Next.js, Envoy, Airflow, Glue, Athena, SageMaker

Platform rebuild — Monolith to microservices

2018 – 2019

Led transformation from data‑centre monolith to AWS microservices using Terraform, ECS and Lambda. Introduced a centralised logging platform for trend analysis with Elasticsearch.

Stack: .NET Core, Node, React, Terraform, ECS, Lambda, Elasticsearch

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