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 24, 2026

The Undo Button Nobody Uses: `git reflog`

An interactive rebase drops a commit you actually needed, and git log no longer shows it. It isn't gone — git reflog remembers every HEAD you've ever had, including the one from thirty seconds ago.

Aug 24, 2026

Go 1.27: net/http, and a Tour of the Testing Toolchain

The last post in this series is a survey, not a thesis: RFC 9218 client priority on an HTTP/2 server, automatic body draining proven by a counting listener, what actually limits request headers, and six pieces of the testing and toolchain surface from a synctest-driven retry client to go fix and go mod tidy.

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.