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 15, 2026

Generic Methods in Go 1.27: What Changed, What Didn't

For as long as Go has had generics, a method could only use the type parameter its receiver declared, so producing anything else meant a package-level function taking the receiver as its first argument. Go 1.27 changes that, but only partway…

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 13, 2026

Go 1.27: A Release Map, Ordered by What Can Break You

Seven posts, one companion repository, and a benchmark run against go1.27rc1. This one is the map: what each post covers, and an upgrade checklist ordered by how badly each change can surprise a running system, not by how large its number is.

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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.