I build systems that don't apologise for existing.

Staff DevOps Engineer focusing on Go, Rust, and distributed systems. Design systems for performance and technical clarity.

Recent Writing

Aug 13, 2026

The Bare Repo Pipeline

A bare repository and a nine-line post-receive hook turn `git push` into a full deploy, with no CI platform, no webhook, and no build server in the loop.

Aug 12, 2026

Found in a Response Header: How I Joined Automattic

An HTTP response carried an `X-Hacker` header pointing at a job page. Three months, a paid trial on a real repository, and a silent CI gate later, I signed as a Staff DevOps Engineer at the company that started my career.

Selected Projects

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Experience

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JUN 2026 — PRESENT

Staff DevOps Engineer

Automattic

Rebuilt the way internal automation tools securely access the company's code repositories, replacing a fragile, manually managed system with a properly scoped, auditable one. Then led the rollout of an organisation-wide system that automatically checks software dependencies for updates and merges safe ones in in, cutting down the manual work engineering teams previously had to do to stay patched and secure.

NOV 2024 — JUN 2026

Lead Technology Consultant

Technogise

AI-assisted delivery and deep tooling integrations; analytics, internal tools, and workflows; self-serve reporting for finance. Reliability, security, CI/CD, and cluster operations; edge services and mentoring; polyglot work in regulated gaming.

JUN — NOV 2024

Technology Consultant

Technogise

Raised architecture and delivery velocity; shipped annual identity re-verification aligned with engineering standards.

NOV 2021 — JUN 2024

Director of Software Engineering

engineering.com

Self-service white-label instances; improved web and API performance; hybrid-to-native apps; on-demand environments for dev and QA.